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| Underworld: Evolution | |
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| Credits | |
| Title: | Underworld: Evolution |
| Directed by: | Len Wiseman |
| Written by: | Danny McBride; Len Wiseman |
| Produced by: | Terry A. McKay; James McQuaide; Skip Williamson; Henry Winterstern; Len Wiseman; David Coatsworth; Kevin Grevioux; Gary Lucchesi; Tom Rosenberg; Richard Wright |
| Music by: | Marco Beltrami |
| Cinematography: | Simon Duggan |
| Edited by: | Nicholas De Toth |
| Production | |
| Distributors: | Screen Gems; Lakeshore Entertainment |
| Released: | January 20th, 2006 |
| Rating: | R |
| Running time: | 106 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $50,000,000 [1] |
| Gross: | $62,318,875 (US) $111,340,801 (Worldwide) [2][3] |
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| Previous: | Underworld |
| Next: | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans |
Plot[]
In 1202, an army led by the three vampire elders (Markus, Viktor, and Amelia) arrives at a village full of werewolves. Viktor and Amelia capture their target, Markus's twin brother, William Corvinus, the first and most powerful werewolf. Despite Markus's defiance, Viktor orders that William be imprisoned in a secret location forever.
In the present day, vampiress Selene takes Michael to a safe house so that she can confront the vampire regent Kraven; she knows that Kraven intends to kill Markus and plans to stop him. However, Markus awakens before Kraven arrives and kills him and his men. Alexander Corvinus, A.K.A. Lorenz Macaro, an elderly man who is really an immortal and forefather to both the vampire and Lycan races, sends in a team of "cleaners" to investigate the aftermath from the battle in the Lycans' lair. When Macaro examines Viktor's corpse he finds a metal disc inside which is the match to a pendant originally worn by Sonja. The other half of the pendant is now possessed by Michael after the death of Lucian.
Using the knowledge of computers obtained from Kraven's blood, Markus tracks Selene and Michael down and attacks them, but they evade him and hide in a warehouse. There, Selene and Michael share their feelings and have passionate sex. Now knowing that the pendant is important to Markus, Michael and Selene set out to discover why Markus wants it. Selene recalls that she saw it as a child, but does not know its significance. They travel to the hideout of the exiled vampire historian Andreas Tanis.
Tanis reveals that Markus was the first vampire, one of the three sons of Alexander Corvinus, the first immortal. Markus was bitten by a bat and metamorphosed into a vampire, while William was bitten by a wolf and metamorphosed into a werewolf. The third son remained human and gave rise to a line of mortal descendants including Michael, who became the first Lycan-Vampire hybrid. The first werewolves created by William were entirely animal and unable to return to their human forms. Due to William's destructiveness, Markus approached Viktor, then a dying mortal warlord, and offered to metamorphose him and his army into vampires in exchange for tracking down and stopping William, and in destroying those he had infected. Viktor did not kill the brothers because he was led by Markus to believe that doing so would result in the immediate extinction of all other vampires and his Lycan slaves. Tanis further reveals that Selene's father was the architect who built William's prison and that the pendant is the key. Viktor killed Selene's family because they knew the prison's location, but metamorphosed Selene into a vampiress with the location of the prison encoded in her blood. Tanis then refers Selene and Michael to Macaro for help. After Selene and Michael leave, Markus arrives and drinks Tanis' blood to learn Selene and Michael's location, killing Tanis.
Visiting Macaro, Selene and Michael discover he actually is Alexander Corvinus. Alexander reveals that he has devoted his entire immortal life to keeping the Vampire-Lycan war a secret and refuses to assist Selene in killing his sons. Markus arrives, fights Michael and impales him. He learns the location of William's prison by drinking Selene's blood before mortally wounding his father and obtaining the other half of the pendant. He mocks his father's refusal to help William, revealing that he intends, with William, to rule the world as the god-like master of a race of vampire-Lycan hybrids. On Alexander's bidding, Selene drinks his blood, enhancing her physical strength and healing abilities to a level equivalent to that of a hybrid. Afterwards, Alexander blows up his ship, killing himself.
Selene, aboard Alexander's helicopter, leads his cleaners to the prison to confront and destroy Markus, but he has already freed William. In the ensuing battle, William bites the cleaners who thus metamorphose into werewolves. Michael, presumed dead and carried aboard the helicopter, awakens and joins the fight in his hybrid form, killing William by ripping his head off. Selene engages Markus in hand-to-hand combat, killing him by pushing him into the rotor blades of the cleaners' crashed helicopter.
After the battle, Selene realizes that Alexander's blood granted her hybrid abilities, including being immune to the effects of sunlight, which is lethal to vampires.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Kate Beckinsale | Selene |
| Scott Speedman | Michael |
| Tony Curran | Marcus |
| Sir Derek Jacobi | Corvinus |
| Bill Nighy | Viktor |
| Steven Mackintosh | Tanis |
| Shane Brolly | Kraven |
| Brian Steele | William |
| Zita Görög | Amelia |
| Scott McElroy | Soren |
| John Mann | Samuel |
| Michael Sheen | Lucian |
| Sophia Miles | Erika |
| Rich Cetrone | Pierce |
| Mike Mukatis | Taylor |
| Christine Danielle | Tanis Vamp #1 |
| Kaja Gjesdal | Tanis Vamp #2 |
| Attila Lovaghy | Tavern cop #1 |
| Alexander Grant | Tavern cop #2 |
| Monica Hamburg | Newscaster |
| Lily Mo Sheen | Young Selene |
| Andrew Kavadas | Selene's father |
| Kayla Levins | Selene's sister |
| Michael O'Shea | Farmer |
| Raoul Ganeev | Truck driver |
| Dany Papineau | Death Dealer #1 |
| Sean Rogerson | Death Dealer #2 |
| Adrian Hough | Pilot |
| Michasha Armstrong | Gunner |
| Julius Chapple | French cleaner aide |
| Kurt Carley | Hero Black Wolf #1 |
| Christopher Sumpton | Hero Black Wolf #2 |
| Trevor Beeby | Cleaner |
| Colin Decker | Cleaner |
| Sean Millington | Cleaner |
| Travis Webster | Cleaner |
Notes & Trivia[]
- Principal filming on Underworld: Evolution began in November, 2004 and concluded in March, 2005. [4]
- Closed out of theaters on March 12th, 2006. [5]
- Underworld: Evolution was released to DVD by Sony Pictures on June 6th, 2005. It was released on Blu-ray on June 20th, 2006. It was also included in the Underworld Trilogy DVD and Blu-ray collectors' boxsets along with Underworld and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans.
External Links[]
- Underworld: Evolution at AMG
- Underworld: Evolution at IMDB
- Underworld: Evolution at Wikipedia
- Underworld: Evolution at the Horror Film Wiki
- Underworld: Evolution at Box Office Mojo
- Underworld: Evolution at Rotten Tomatoes
- Underworld: Evolution at The Brimstone Pit
- Underworld: Evolution at the Sony Pictures Homepage
References[]
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