Check out the first official image from the upcoming big screen adaptation of the TokyoPop comic book series, PRIEST. The film is being directed by Scott Charles Stewart (Legion) and stars Paul Bettany (Iron Man 2), Stephen Moyer (True Blood), and Cam Gigandet (Twilight).

Check out the picture, accompanied by a quote from the director below!

Paul Bettany Battles the Undead (via EW)

Bettany plays a vampire-hunting man of the cloth in Priest (due out in 2011), set 
in a dystopian future where the bloodsuckers are confined to reservations. ”In our world, priests are like Jedi Knights with special powers and training,” explains director Scott Stewart (Legion). ”Our vampires are more feral and disturbing than, say, the teen-angst vampires of Twilight or the sexy vampires of True Blood. Those vampires are metaphors. Ours aren’t.”

Priest is slated to hit theaters on May 13th, 2011.