Despite portraying one of Marvel’s most celebrated’s heroes, Vision actor Paul Bettany has very rarely been seen on-screen within the MCU in his most human form, and that was after establishing his voice-only role as J.A.R.V.I.S. The Brit will be front and center for the upcoming Marvel series VisionQuest, both a spiritual and direct continuation of WandaVision, and everyone amped up to watch his latest performance can apparently thank a seldomly namechecked 2011 box office flop.
VisionQuest is hitting the 2026 TV schedule in October, more than 15 years after the release of Scott Stewart’s 2011 action-horror Priest, in which Bettany plays a theocracy-backed vampire killer with a cross smack-dab in the middle of his face. Despite its stacked cast — the callsheet also included Karl Urban, Maggie Q, Christopher Plummer and more — Priest earned much critical scorn and only grossed $29.1 million domestically, less than twice that of its $14.9 million opening weekend. (It made $79 million worldwide against a $60 million budget.)
