New Poster: PRIEST Looks Like It Takes Place in Gotham City!

By Ben Szwediuk / June 25, 2011

In many ways the myth of the vampire is a perfect analogy for the medium of cinema. Sexually predacious, sinister and feeds hungrily on the blood of other media, art and even films. In 2011, this even extends as far as the iconography only recently appropriated in the public consciousness, including its promotional material. Among the more flagrant examples of this artistic cannibalism is the new poster forScreen Gems' horror/thriller Priest from Legion director Scott Stewart, below... Wearing its Batmanallusions very firmly on its sleeve, Priest will attempt the uneasy task of making priests into rock€™n' roll kick-ass superheroes, rather than censorious child-abusers. If the film€™s trailer is any indication, it will seek to do this buy leaning heavily upon The Matrix, The Exorcist and, of course The Dark Knight, amongst others in a story world in which humans are engaged in a cross-generational war against vampires.The film will star the excellent Paul Bettany and-in common with every other pseudo-film thrust upon international multi-plexes- is based upon a comic book (in this case a Korean one created by Hyung Min-Woo) and is being shot in 3D, indeed the production was delayed so this would be the case. And so, as you will observe below, spinny flying things, and pointy punches and kicks at the camera will be order of the day, as Scott Stewart attempts to improve upon the roundly disapproving reaction to his debut feature, Legion. Priest will be released in the U.K. and U.S. on May 13th.