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a bit of a different video compared to what I usually do but it's something i was thinking
about lately will there ever be another underworld movie well when you look at these movies they all
performed relatively well in the box office there was five live-action movies and one animated movie
that was made up of three shorts the first film came out in 2003 and made around 100 million off
a 22 million dollar budget not bad the franchise quickly gained a cult following after this
you can see the best performing movie of the franchise was underworld awakening
it had a budget of 70 million and brought in 160 million worldwide which is surprising because
it's not a favorite among fans the movies in total have brought in million dollars
over half a billion the poorest performing out of the movies was definitely blood wars
it lacked direction and tried to introduce new characters that never really felt as special as
the ones from other movies like Tanis craven and even Erica from the first movie the fifth movie is
the only one that has a rotten rating from fans but even after that Wiseman still talked about
a sixth movie but nothing ever came of it even with blood wars being the least favorite among
fans it still made 81 million worldwide off a budget of 35 million so it wasn't a complete flop
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at one point Beckinsale seemed like she didn't want to do underworld anymore giving a statement
along the lines of I've done plenty of those talking about a certain genre she seemed tired
of the role maybe due to the poor performance of blood wars and thought people were not into it
anymore but during a red carpet interview in 2021 about one of her new projects Beckinsale said she
would return for another underworld and how much she liked the character she even mentioned that
she always wanted to do an underworld blade mashup blade and Selene together would be pretty cool
both vampires that wear leather and like automatic weapons what I call matrix-inspired vampires
it's really awesome to see she still likes underworld and is open to do another despite
the ups and downs maybe she just needed some time away from the series I mentioned this
in a video before but Kate Beckinsale used to be in a relationship with Michael Sheen
the actor that plays Lucian and they even have a daughter together they split up just before the
first underworld movie released and they were never in an underworld movie together again
although they have said they are still good friends after splitting from Sheen Beckinsale went
on to marry Len Wiseman one of the creators and directors of underworld they eventually separated
in 2015 and were finally divorced in 2019 blood wars came out in 2016 which means they probably
separated while working on blood wars or just after which could be another reason she wanted
to take time away from the franchise since her now ex-husband is one of the creators just so you have
an idea of who Wiseman is he is one of the three creators of underworld along with Kevin Grevioux
and Danny McBride he wrote on the first two movies and directed them the final three films were
directed by other people but still produced by Wiseman so he's been pretty close to the project
the longest gap between movies was four years and that was between awakening and blood wars
and as of 2022 it's been six years since we got an underworld movie some people think that since
they have waited too long the odds are they would do a reboot instead of a sequel it would be risky
though there are very few reboots that ever bring justice to the original they could possibly go the
route of a tv show instead and I don't know how I feel about an underworld tv series it could be
done well as long as the creators Wiseman Danny McBride and Kevin were involved grevioux also
writes comic books and created a lot of the great lore behind the Corvinus virus and the species
this guy is seriously smart he graduated from Howard university studying microbiology
then went on to try to get his master's degree in genetic engineering but he eventually left school
to pursue his career in Hollywood and I'm so glad that he did but that's why he decided to make the
underworld virus based on more of a biological virus that can be explained by science rather than
a magical or supernatural curse if you haven't seen underworld or haven't seen them all Grevioux
plays rays in the first and third movie one of the strongest lycans and Lucian's right-hand man
I watched this movie for a long time not knowing this was one of the creators he has one of the
coolest voices ever we were ambushed death deal there's three of them he's also made
appearances on other classic movies such as Congo The Mask Tim Burton's planet of the apes and more
I always wondered what would have happened with the series if Michael was never killed off the way
he was off screen really dumb he appears in the first two movies but didn't appear in the prequel
because it was hundreds of years in the past and he's not in a 2012 film underworld awakening but
his character is still presumably alive somewhere it's not until blood wars that he is 100 confirmed
to be dead but they could have brought him back in blood wars instead maybe he escaped from Marius
made his way back to Selene and eve but instead he's unceremoniously killed off I really had my
fingers crossed that after being kidnapped at the end of awakening that he was going to make
an epic return in blood wars I was wrong in an interview with the creator Len Wiseman he said
he wanted to focus more on the mother-daughter relationship between Selene and eve and Michael's
role would overshadow that but eve is like barely in awakening and is only in like 30 seconds of
blood wars so that makes no sense in my opinion it's possible that the actor who plays Michael
Scott Speedman had moved on to other projects and didn't want to return for another underworld
but other than Wiseman saying he wanted to focus on the mother-daughter relationship
Wiseman or Scott Speedman have never given any answers to why he never returned to the series
maybe the two had a disagreement of some kind personal or creative
another character that was killed off too early in my opinion was Lucian he was one of the highlights
of the first and third film which are the best too so why not bring him back it could
have had something to do with the underworld love triangle or it's possible that Michael sheen just
also moved on to other projects sheen of course returned for rise of the likens but that's the
only underworld movie Selene is not in coincidence I think not who knows why sheen didn't return but
I really wish they would do another rise of the lycans film showing them rebuild and what happened
at Castle Corvinus after they defeated the vampires since we know a lot of stuff went down
the movie started with Selene meeting Michael and him becoming the first ever hybrid
both vampire and lycan but stronger than both the second film further shows how impressive
hybrids are when they defeat the elders the strongest immortals alive then we got a prequel
that further explained the importance of hybrids and how the war between vampires and likens began
which was great but then when awakening came around we had no Michael no elders but at least
we had eve right supposedly one of the strongest immortals alive and that has ever existed
Selene even says this herself she kind of proves her strength at the end of the movie
by defeating an enhanced lichen even though she's only a child
then Blood Wars comes around and even eve is gone after the entire last movie built her up to
be this super strong hybrid that rips people's throats out in the end I love the first three
awakening is a good movie maybe just not a good underworld movie if that makes sense and then
blood wars it had some good moments Samira Lena and David are great vampires the Eastern Coven
and Nordic Coven looked really cool so there is some redeeming qualities about the movie
do I think they will ever make another underworld movie
yes I think it's inevitable that eventually some kind of underworld movie will come out whether it
be a sequel or a fresh start is hard to say but I think it will be a hard sale without beckon sale
you need Selene but they could find someone to play an older eve and she could become the new
main character since Selene is now an elder after blood wars or like I said before we
could get a tv show I can't remember where but I read something about amazon being interested
in an underworld show which is a scary thought but I couldn't find that article again so take
that with a grain of salt what do you guys think do you think we'll get another underworld movie
and if we did do you think Selene would be the main character Beckinsale is definitely still
capable of an action role and she said she'd like to return or do you think it would be cool to see
Michael sheen return as Lucian for another rise of the lycans movie we can be slaves or we can be
lighters I hope you enjoyed this video about the possible future underworld movie I like to think
positive so I hope we get another movie eventually and I hope it's good if there's any other movies
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