Underworld Wiki Explore. Main content. Characters Locations Species Timeline Map. Editing rules Manual of style Special pages Recent blog posts Contact administrator. Explore Wikis Community Central. Filming commenced on September 2, , and continued for over two months before concluding on November 23, The beautiful city, with its magnificent architecture, provided the movie with its haunting gothic feel. Here is a detailed look into the specific filming locations of the film. With the plot of the movie set in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, it was natural for the crew to shoot on location in the beautiful city.
Budapest is renowned for its spectacular architectural wonders showcasing numerous styles ranging from neoclassical to Gothic Revival. Although Blood Wars is ostensibly an action movie, it often comes across more as an occult fashion show, a guide to the ways in which black clothing can be mixed and matched with other black clothing. In the middle of all of this, as usual, is Kate Beckinsale , the Oxford-trained actress who has now starred in four of the five films in the Underworld franchise.
Her steely eyed performance as a vampire warrior whose shiny black pants never lose their perfect polish is the foundation of the franchise, the blood from which it draws its life force.
Wait , you may ask, there are five of the se movies? Yes, the Underworld franchise, too, appears to be immortal, or at least more difficult to kill than you might expect.
That this low-budget, low-concept franchise has lasted so long the first film was released in without the sort of rabid fandom that tends to power other long-lived series is perhaps its greatest triumph. It is the rarest of creatures in Hollywood: a profitable franchise that no one really loves.
Which raises the question: What, exactly, has kept Underworld alive for 14 years and five movies? Like The Matrix , it features gun-toting characters in long, dark coats blasting their way through grimy corridors.
A movie-opening shootout on a subway platform is just a rehash of the lobby sequence from The Matrix but without the impeccable wirework choreography.
The film also features Michael Sheen as the leader of a werewolf faction, and Bill Nighy — yes, that Bill Nighy — as an ancient vampire lord named Viktor who is unexpectedly woken from a centuries-long nap, much to his frustration. When he arises from the dead, he wears a massive gold chain and an elaborately embroidered black … something that is either a skirt or Hammer pants.
The wrinkly vampire makeup he wears makes him look like a failed experiment to genetically cross a human with a rotting prune. The lycans, in contrast, are low-born and rougher in nature, and they resent the vampires not only as a species but as a class.
Underworld is by no means a great movie. The whole thing comes across a little too much like a grungy nu-metal video extended to feature length — which is not really that surprising, given that Wiseman previously directed grungy nu-metal videos. The dialogue, which often dwells on matters of bloodlines and family lineage, would be embarrassing in a video game. Still, the movie has a certain charm. Beckinsale holds everything together with her icy presence and lethal physicality. The lycans.
Underworld: Evolution : The follow-up, also directed by Wiseman, follows Selene and Michael, in the throes of a forbidden interspecies love, as they battle against the werewolf William and the vampire lord Markus, two ancient brothers who spawned the vampire and werewolf bloodlines. Beckinsale is still an imposing presence, but too many of her scenes are dragged down by Speedman, who sucks everything interesting around him into his dark and boring void. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans : This is the one for the Nighy superfans.
Michael Sheen returns to do tolerable work as a werewolf freedom fighter with decent abs and extremely good hair. A vampire named Selene works as a trained killer for this war, as her entire family was killed by Lycans. Despite all of this, Selene falls in love with a Lycan named Michael. All the while, they still have to engage in the war surrounding them. The film franchise follows the ongoing war between the species. Selene and Michael both become hybrids through out the series, which fuels both species to hunt them down.
As they are forced to stand on their own, Michael and Selene discover dark secrets about both of their species. Selene is eventually separated from Michael, but nothing will stop her from bringing an end to the war.
The five movies in the Underworld series span from ancient times to modern day to even the near future. Here's a breakdown of what happens in each installment of the series, and when it takes place. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is a prequel to the first two films, and marked the first and only time Kate Beckinsale stepped away from the series. The film goes way back in time to explain the origins of the Lycan species. The movie focuses on the origins of Lucian. He's raised by the vampire elder Viktor, who dreams of having the boy's species work for vampires one day.
Lucian grows up and falls in love with Viktor's daughter Sonja, and they begin a secret affair. Viktor eventually finds out an imprisons his daughter for being in a relationship with a Lycan.
He becomes even more disgusted to learn that his daughter is pregnant with a Lycan's child. Sonja's murder triggers Lucian's hatred toward vampires in the first film, along with propelling the centuries-old battle between vampires and Lycans. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans comes full circle and ends with a shot of Selene, not featured at all in this prequel, before she learns the events that turns her against her kind. The first installment of the series was released in and takes place in modern day London.
But as viewers discover, this is not the beginning of the story of the epic battle between vampires and Lycans. The first film in the Underworld franchise kicks off in the middle of the war, where vampires seem to currently have the upper hand. The film's protagonist Selene is a Death Dealer, which is a vampire assassin who specializes in killing Lycans.
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