‘True Blood’ Crosses ‘Twilight’ as Stephen Moyer Joins ‘Priest’

While we're thumping along the vampire beat, let's entertain what is sure to be an ill-advised cash-in on people's fascination with dead people who have really pale skin, sharp teeth, and snappy temperaments. Stephen Moyer, or more famously, Anna Paquin's fiance, has signed onto star in Priest, a vampire thriller also starring Paul Bettany. But if talents like Moyer and Bettany are billed, where does Priest get, well, shady?

Take a look at Priest’s rather unecclesiastical shortcomings: casting Maggie Q.; also casting some chick whose most extensive work in front of the camera was two episodes on the new 90210; trite plot involving vampires kidnapping said 90210 non-starlet; a plot that was moreover grifted from a TokyoPop comic book.

Also, in what’s an especially inspired bit of casting, Cam Gigandet, who plays a villainous vamp in the Twilight saga, will be playing ... surprise! a vampire in this flick. To be exact, a vampire sheriff. Although need we remind him, he really shouldn’t bother with Eric Northman still on the job. Still questions remain that producers have ignored for some reason but we continue to humor. By the time this flick sees daylight in 2010, will anyone really care about vampires not named Bill Compton or Edward Cullen? Most importantly, what does Jennifer Connelly have to say about her husband’s fangbanging proclivities?