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'Twilight' star Gigandet joins 'The Priest'

Published Monday, Jun 8 2009, 15:43 BST | By Lara Martin
'Twilight' star Gigandet joins 'The Priest'

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Twilight star Cam Gigandet has signed on for horror Western The Priest, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The actor, who played the villainous James in the vampire romance, will join Paul Bettany in the upcoming adaptation of a TokyoPop comic helmed by Scott Stewart.

Set in an alternative world where man and vampires are at war, the story follows a warrior priest (Bettany) who rebels from the church to track down his niece who has been kidnapped by vampires.

Gigandet will star as a part-vampire sheriff who joins forces with the priest in order to rescue the missing girl with whom he is in love.

Gigandet recently signed on for another Screen Gems project, Easy A, opposite Amanda Bynes, while Bettany was most recently seen in historical romance The Young Victoria

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