Jun 8, 2009
To star in “Priest”
Cam Gigandet will star opposite Paul Bettany in «Priest,» a horror Western directed by Scott Stewart.
Adapted by Cory Goodman from a TokyoPop comic book, «Priest» is set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires and follows a warrior priest (played by Paul Bettany) who turns against the church to track down a murderous band of vampires who have kidnapped his niece.
Cam Gigandet plays a young wasteland sheriff who is part vampire. He partners with Bettany to save the girl he loves, the niece. That latter part has yet to be cast.
Michael De Luca and Stars Road Entertainment‘s Josh Donen are producing along with Mitchell Peck.
Culpepper and senior vp production Eric Paquette are overseeing the project.
The «Priest» deal follows on the heels of Gigandet joining the cast of Screen Gems’ EASY A, a comedic re-imagining of “The Scarlet Letter,” starring Emma Stone and Amanda Bynes. Gigandet is playing a third-time senior in high school who still hasn’t graduated.
Cam Gigandet, repped by WME Entertainment, is filming Screen Gems’ thriller THE ROOMMATE with Leighton Meester and Minka Kelly. The actor is coming off of winning a MTV Movie Award for best fight, awarded for his work in TWILIGHT. Gigandet won the award the previous year for NEVER BACK DOWN, making him the only actor to win it in back-to-back years.
Source × The Hollywood Reporter
i think this was the movie that steven strait was going to star in at one time, i cant be sure but it has the same name. anyways i will watch anything with cam in it. so three new movies, easy a, experiment and now priest. glad to see cam is keeping busy. i’ll watch this it does sound like a movie i would watch, and i will be nice to go back to the real type of vampires, not like the ones in twilight.
yep i will see this
I can’t wait for “Easy A” and “The Experiment”, but I don’t know what to think about “Priest” – The idea of Vampires in a western movie seem weird to me. wait to see…
yea more cam movies, i will watch anything with cam it in. i agree with kim, it will be very nice to see REAL vampires and not the twilight kind.
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