Priest... Based on Korean Comic, not Trinity Blood?

[Michael L.]

I've only seen a short teaser for the new film Priest and thought it looked like it got some serious inspiration from the Trinity Blood manga and anime. Turns out, though, it is based on a Korean comic called Priest. Is it anything like Trinity Blood (other than the whole vampire war, Church is the military and such)?

[kaleyboy]

Not sure, but I hated Trinity Blood, so I'm pleased it's not based on that.

[trueth]

This film has almost nothing related to the manga except for the title and the title character I believe. In the manga, the main character is a priest who sold his soul for vengence. I dont think it mentions a war with vampires.

[loempiavreter]

The manwha is about a resurrected priest who thanks to a deal with Belial has come back to life to take revenge on the Fallen Angels that killed his wife or girlfriend and himself set in the wild west.

There is not much vampires at all in this manwha, first fallen angel has an army of zombies and the second one has an army of frankenstein/freaky creations stitched together and so on, there's also a band of fanatic christians all drugged up serving the fallen angels like band of raving mad men.

It's more like a spaghetti western with demons. Then 2 or 3 years ago the series went kaput and is not finished at all (still busy with the 3rd fallen angel), and it's all the fault of this movie that changes the setting into post-apocalyptic and the enmies into vampires... There was constant word that the writer/artist Min Woo Hyung was trying to tie the comic into the movie.. which is stupid. But there hasn't been any new volumes at all (expect for a prequel comic to this movie NOT made by the Min Woo Hyung). The whole situation just sucks.

Btw it's not your typical manwha look, the art is pretty cool:
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I just read he has a new title coming out this very month called Ghostface... It's not Priest and it's in colour, but eh... I'll take it:
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[Michael L.]

So it sounds like this movie has more in common with Trinity Blood than they would advertise.

I tried to watch Trinity Blood when it was on Adult Swim but missed the second episode; I hadn't really decided if I liked it or not. I notice it is on Netflix streaming, so I might give it a second chance.

[loempiavreter]

Hmm I've seen Trinity Blood not read the novels it's based on though. Warning, the anime series is only half the story, with a rather non-conclusive ending, I think the vampires in Trinity Blood are more Twilight-style then the movie Priest's "vampire mutant beasts". Can't really remember... I don't know why I finished watching Trinity Blood don't really enjoy vampires flicks.

Anyway, I've looked mroe into that new series of Min Woo Hyung and it's looks to be pretty cool, although the premise is straight out ripped from Escape from NY & LA, Doomsday, 1990 Bronx Warriors, 2019: After The Fall of NY, MadWorld:

Min-Woo Hyung, the stunning Korean creator behind the original Priest graphic novels, is coming at you again with a whole new series—this time in color. Take all your assumptions about manga formats and throw them out the window. Ghostface will be presented by Tokyopop as 7” by 10” standard US graphic novels that read left to right, just like a Marvel or DC book. Even better? They’re all full color.

Thousands of the world’s most ruthless criminals are locked away in the ruins of a city on a wind-swept island called Sodo. Out of the writhing mass of vice and violence, the strongest of the ganglords have clawed their way to the top and set themselves up as local gods of the prison island. The corporate city-states which jailed these dangerous men and women rely on the unending tides of gang war to keep the criminals stranded—but since only the strong survive, the island instead serves as an incubator, bringing out the worst and most extreme in its captives. One such super-criminal has escaped Sodo, has broken into high-tech corporate labs on the mainland, and has stolen a chemical that could change everything.

Hyung’s art work has always been razor-sharp, winding like a snake-strike as his characters’ fight scenes whip across the page. Fantastic sprays of bullets, blood, and sweat arc across Hyung’s characteristically painstaking background work. The series feels as though it’s set in Akira’s Neo-Tokyo, with a riff on the mind-bendingly dangerous cast of Street Fighter. This time though, there are no intricate side stories; the plot surges ahead like a bullet, straightforward and bloodthirsty, creating an edge-of-your-seat actioner from one of Korea’s leading lights.

[daisho2004]

OK I just got back from seeing this movie, so he is what I thought.
1st. Off Do not waste your money on the 3D! I'll repeat Do not waste your money on the 3D! I'm so sick and tired of these movies claiming to be filmed in Real 3D when its total BS!
2nd. The storyline was really good the Priest were The Vampire Slayers who were like Jedi Knights! Which I liked.
3rd. The plot was good but then it just got so predictable you were like yeah I knew that was going to happen.
4th. The ending sucked, it just leaves off with a definite sequel.
5th. The CGI was really good the Vampire Creatures weren't anything new they looked like the creatures from Doom, and the 1st. Resident Evil! But I still liked them.
6th. All in all this really should've been a Direct to DVD movie, and when you watch it you'll know what I mean. There is a sequence in the beginning that tells the History of the Vampires & The Priest which is like a comic book and that was really cool. So don't go rushing out to see this movie wait for the DVD release.