December 17, 2008
Scott Charles Stewart is saddling up to fight vampires in the Old West.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Stewart, the co-founder of the special effects house Orphanage, has been hired to direct Screen Gems' vampire western
Priest.
Cory Goodman (
The Brood) penned the screenplay adaptation of the the TokyoPop manhwa. TokyoPop provided the following synopsis of the Korean comic: "In the frontier of the American west, a veil of evil threatens to engulf humanity. Servants of the fallen archangel Temozarela are paving the way for their dark lord's resurrection. One man stands in the way of the apocalypse — Ivan Isaacs — a fallen priest who sold his soul to the devil Belial for the power to fight evil. Armed with a wicked blade and silver bullets, Ivan will give the heretics a baptism of blood in his pilgrimage for humanity's redemption."
Sam Raimi was previously attached to produce
Priest with Gerard Butler starring, but that fell apart a few years ago.
More info on
Priest :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_(manhwa)