ANGEL STAR TURNS WICKED

David Boreanaz, who plays the villainous Luc Crash in the upcoming sequel film The Crow: Wicked Prayer, Angel good guy David Boreanaz told Zap2it that he indulged his dark side over the summer hiatus, playing the villain in The Crow: Wicked Prayer, the fourth film in the Crow franchise. "I was a bad guy," Boreanaz told the site. "He was the leader of [this gang called] The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, an ex-con. It was great. I had a lot of fun. It was a hard-paced film. We shot in 23 days. It was not an easy shoot."

Boreanaz played Luc Crash, the leader of a satanic biker gang who murders a young man named Jimmy Cuervo (Edward Furlong) and his girlfriend, Lily (Emmanuelle Chriqui), as part of a ritual to turn Crash into an immortal demon, the site reported.

"He was more than a villain," Boreanaz said. "I liked the dialogue. I liked the setting. I liked the script. I just really liked the role. It was juicy. I like being bad. He's two different guys. He's an ex-con that becomes the Antichrist, so you've got two different roles that you're playing."

Boreanaz added, "From what I hear from the trailer, it looks great. I've seen a little bit of dailies. I'm happy. Dimension Films is happy. It could breathe some good life into a franchise that's been dead for a while." The Crow: Wicked Prayer is slated for a 2004 release.