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Be ready to have the "Priest" make us eerie. It is the new horror movie directed by Andrew Douglas, who also helmed another horror screenplay, "The Amityville Horror".

The movie is attaching Gerard Butler as the leading role. Butler is also known as the Phantom in the adapted version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera". He is also attached to Warner Bros.' next movie plan, "300" after currently performed in "Butterfly on a Wheel", together with Pierce Brosnan and Maria Bello.

The movie is holding Cory Goodman as the screenplay writer, adapting from a novel written by Min-Woo Hyung. On the producer credits, the shares go to Michael De Luca, Sam Raimi, Josh Donen and Mitchell Peck.

The "Priest" tells a story on a rebellious warrior priest since he formed a rescue team, consisted of a sheriff and a priestess. The team is searching for a group of renegade vampires who have kidnapped his niece. The film is scheduled to start shooting on October 1 in Mexico.