Dominic Monaghan and Ron Perlman are teaming up for indie flick 'I Sell the Dead,' reports Reuters. The film focuses on two 18 century gravediggers (Monaghan and Larry Fessenden) who obtain bodies for an aristocratic doctor, to be played by Angus Scrimm. Perlman plays a mysterious priest who hears the confession of Monaghan's character. Newcomer Glenn McQuaid will write and direct; shooting starts in May right between the end of Monaghan's Lost taping for the season and the beginning of Perlman's work on "Hellboy 2: The Golden Army."

Monaghan shot to inetrnational stardom as Merry, one of the hobbits in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Soon after the final film was released, he began work on ABC's Lost, on which he plays recovering addict and former rock star Charlie.

Perlman's genre cred is long and varied, and usually covered in a metric ton of makeup. As the leonine Vincent in CBS's Beauty and the Beast, he set hearts aflutter and became for many female viewers the epitome of what a good man ought to be like (hint: lots of poetry). As demon Hellboy in the eponymous film, he presented a character who was both sixty years old and yet barely out of adolescence, with an apocalyptic destiny to boot. Long-time fans of his work will also recall his ill-fated character Salvatore from the adaptation of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, and wonder if the priest he plays next will meet a similar end.