LOS ANGELES – A battle-hardened rogue warrior embarks on a perilous quest to save his niece from a murderous pack of vampires in Priest, a post-apocalyptic action horror film from director Scott Stewart. In this visually stunning, widescreen 3-D homage to iconic adventure films, only one man stands between humanity and its destruction at the hands of a marauding army.
After centuries of brutal warfare, humankind has defeated its most terrifying enemy, the vampire hordes. The few remaining vampires have been relegated to isolated reservations, while most humans have taken refuge in walled cities ruled by the Church. The priests, trained to be deadly combatants during the vampire wars, now do menial labor and live in virtual isolation, marked by distinctive tattoos and shunned by their neighbors.
When a report of a vampire attack and the abduction of an 18-year-old girl living in a remote outpost reaches Priest (Paul Bettany), a veteran of the wars, he asks the ruling monsignors for permission to go after the hostage, his niece. When they refuse, he breaks his sacred vows and defies their orders, setting out to find the girl before the vampires can enslave her. He is joined on his crusade by his niece’s boyfriend Hicks (Cam Gigandet), a trigger-fingered young wasteland lawman, and a former Warrior Priestess (Maggie Q) who possesses otherworldly fighting skills.
But when they reach the desert town of Jericho, Priest, Hicks and Priestess discover a scene of utter devastation that bears the hallmarks of a vampire rampage—and a terrifying new threat.
Priest stars Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Lily Collins, Stephen Moyer and legendary actor Christopher Plummer.
Based on TokyoPop’s popular graphic novel series written by Min-Woo Hyung, Priest is directed by Scott Stewart, co-founder of the acclaimed visual effects studio The Orphanage (Iron Man, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Sin City). The screenplay is by Cory Goodman. Producers are Michael De Luca (21, Ghost Rider, The Social Network), Joshua Donen (Spider-Man 4, Armored), and Mitchell Peck (Bio-Dome). Executive producers are Glenn S. Gainor (Vacancy, Quarantine), Stephen H. Galloway, Stu Levy and Josh Bratman.
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