Based on a comic book by Min-Woo Hyung, "Priest" centers on a warrior priest (Butler) who disobeys church law by teaming with a young sheriff (Strait) and a priestess to track down a band of renegade vampires who have kidnapped the priest's niece. Columbia Pictures recently greenlighted the comic book-based vampire pic "30 Days of Night," which Raimi also is producing. Butler, who toplined "The Phantom of the Opera" and next stars in Warner Bros.

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