Father Heath

Former cavalier Heath Ledger will be re-teaming with A Knight's Tale writer/director, Brian Helgeland, for his next role, supernatural thriller Sin Eater. Taking a slightly less muscle-led approach this time around, Ledger will be slipping in to a cassock for his lead role in the film, where he plays a young New York priest. The film will see Ledger's catholic clergyman helping the NYPD in a series of occult homicides. As the mysterious markings on the victims begin to make sense, evidence points to an ancient order known as the Sin Eaters, who absolve the guilty of their sins by taking it into themselves. Unfortunately, for the recent string of confessors, the absolution seems to have been terminal. Sin Eater was originally scheduled for filming back in 1999 with Antonio Banderas as the antagonist. Helgeland had wanted Paul Bettany for the lead but his lack of star-power was apparently a problem for the studio and Helgeland turned him into A Knight's Tale's show stealing Geoff Chaucer instead. Filming on Sin Eater is scheduled to begin in early 2002.