Gerard Butler hunts Vampires in PRIEST

By Karl Schneider     June 26, 2006
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Gerard Butler and Steven Strait are in negotiations to star in a postapocalyptic vampire western, PRIEST, for Screen Gems.

Andrew Douglas will direct the film which is based on a comic book by Min-Woo Hyung. PRIEST will follow a warrior priest played by Butler who disobeys the church law and teams with a young sheriff played by Strait and a priestess. Together they attempt to track down a band of renegade vampires who have kidnapped the priest's niece.

Cory Goodman adapted the screenplay.