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'Priest' casts its villain


August 20, 2009 Karl Urban has signed on to play the villain in "Priest," Screen Gems' post-apocalyptic horror thriller directed by Scott Stewart. Paul Bettany stars as a warrior priest and vampire 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 plays Black Hat, the evil leader of the bloodsuckers who was once a priest and hunter but now fancies himself a god of vampires.

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