Kate Beckinsale Returning for New Underworld Film
With the exception of the last Underworld, which took all the mythology set in place by the first three films and threw it out of the window in favor of a little vamp kid and a giant CG werewolf, I pretty much dig the franchise and so do many others. As a result another is indeed on its way.
According to THR Kate Beckinsale is back for more Underworld action. The actress has signed on to reprise her vampire character, Selene, in the fifth installment in the franchise from Lakeshore Entertainment and Screen Gems.
Directing the movie is Anna Foerster, who has done second-unit work and was Roland Emmerich’s right-hand woman as the director of photography on such movies as The Day After Tomorrow and White House Down. This is the first time that a woman is directing the female-led action-horror franchise.
Cory Goodman wrote the script, whose plot details are being kept shut in a coffin but which is said to focus on a new and younger generation of vampires and werewolves who are locked in a seemingly never-ending battle between supernatural races.
Theo James, who appeared briefly in 2012’s Underworld: Awakening, is attached to reprise his character as he fulfills an option agreement.
The movie will shoot in Prague this October.
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