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Karl Urban, most recently seen in this summer's Star Trek, has signed on to play the villain in Scott Stewart's adaptation of the comic book Priest.

Urban joins Paul Bettany, who plays the title priest, and Maggie Q, a warrior priestess, as a character called Black Hat, the vampire leader who was once a priest himself.

Priest is based on the TokyoPop comic of the same name about "a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampire." A warrior priest turns against the church to find a bloodthirsty group of vamps who have kidnapped his niece.

The script is by Cory Goodman (The Brood).

Also, it seems Stephen Moyer just can't get enough of vampires.

Variety reports that the True Blood star has joined the cast of Priest, Screen Gems' adaptation of the graphic novel.

90210's Lily Collins has been cast as the kidnapped niece. Moyer is said to be playing the lead character's mortal brother.

Moyer isn't the only actor known for his vampire role to have be cast in Priest; Twilight's Cam Gigandet plays a lawman in the Scott Stewart-directed thriller, which began filming today.