Karl Urban Joins Priest as Villain
Karl Urban who made some waves playing the venerable Bones McCoy in JJ Abrams Star Trek, is set-up to play a villain in Scott Stewart’s film based on the popular Korean comic, Priest, a post-apocalyptic horror thriller. He has generally played a good villain like in films The Chronicles of Riddick or the Bourne Supremacy.
Adapted by Cory Goodman from a TokyoPop comic and is set in a world ravaged by war between man and vampires and various other incarnations of evil. Paul Bettany stars as a warrior priest and vampire/demon fighter who teams with a sheriff (Cam Gigandet) and warrior priestess (Maggie Q) to track down a murderous band of vampires who have kidnapped his niece.
Urban will play Black Hat, the evil leader of the bloodsuckers who was once a priest and hunter but now fancies himself a god of vampires.
In the original manhwa there were no vampires mentioned and the universe of the comic featured a variety of heroes, anti-heroes and villains, a number of which enjoying in depth and detailed character development within the plot also the main protagonist of the story was Temozarela, a head fallen angel out for vengeance against God.
In the comic, Priest, Ivan Issacs, the main protagonist who was once a priest. Devoted to his faith he would have given up anything for it. Then the establishment he believed in turned on him, sending him headlong into Hell. Now, he’s back. With the priesthood now corrupt with demons, the undead and black prayers, he has returned with the help of the demon Belial, a voice in the darkness who offered Ivan a chance at vengeance, in exchange for his soul. With his six-shooter, a bowie knife at his side and the white collar of his former life adorning his neck he is a lost pale rider in a barren wild west where past and future collide.
It seems as the film adaption centres around a world where vampires and humans are at war. A priest, presumably the Ivan Isaacs – character, goes against the church to track down a band of vampires who have kidnapped his niece. No fallen angels or zombies are mentioned which are central to the plot of the manhwa, as we mentioned, so it is looking disappointing at least to fans. Maybe the change is Stewart trying not to make the same movie again as his Legion film centers on fallen angels and wrath of God stuff.
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