Vlad D

Here you go Frank. Link

Steve_Tk

that new trailer looks very cool.

Frank Anderson

Thanks Vlad. The one I had was even smaller. I was hoping for one much bigger and styled similar to the wallpapers on the website.

Max Knight

I am all over this movie!

Werewolf movies have a special place in my heart.

I can't wait!

Max Knight
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Lacking fins and tail
the gefilte fish swims with
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Rex Bachmann

SciFiWire: "Finding Underworld's Uniqueness"


dateline: August 5, 2003 9:00 a.m. ET

Quote:

Len Wiseman, director of the upcoming supernatural movie Underworld, told SCI FI Wire that the film started out as a straight werewolf project. "I got together with a friend of mine, Kevin [Grevioux], and we started just hashing out these ideas of what could we do that's new," Wiseman said in an interview at the recent Comic-Con International. "We didn't want it to be just the local sheriff in a small town goes around the woods, finds these killings and this and that, and the silver bullets and all that. So we just wanted something to feel different." Wiseman, Grevioux, and writer Danny McBride devised a scenario in which vampires and werewolves clash. "We actually gave the werewolves an equal enemy," said Wiseman, a music-video helmer who makes his feature-directorial debut with Underworld. "It's funny, because a lot of the talk has been that it seems like a very simple concept, and why hasn't this been done before? . . . We thought, 'Well, that's great, but it's been done. Of course it's been done.' And we talked to our agents, we went on the Internet, we looked at everything. And outside of, like, the . . . late '50s or something, it just hasn't been done. And it was kind of shocking to us." But Wiseman was reluctant at first to characterize the movie as a vampire-werewolf Romeo and Juliet. "At first I thought, that's the lamest idea I've ever heard in my life," he said. "[But] when the whole Romeo and Juliet thing came into play, it was really just to set up the state of the two races. Instead of Montagues and Capulets, they're werewolves and vampires. Just kind of that tension. The forbidden nature of them being together. That was much more of the thrust of the Romeo and Juliet idea than . . . just the all-out love story. . . . Things like a love story in a driving action film I always have a hard time with. . . . Our love story was always a bit more, I guess, like Aliens than Romeo and Juliet. . . . Ripley and Hicks. . . . Dangerous and on the run." Underworld, starring Scott Speedman and Wiseman's real-life fiancée, Kate Beckinsale, opens Sept. 19.

Len Wiseman: "At first I thought, that's the lamest idea [writing the movie as a vampire-werewolf Romeo and Juliet-story] I've ever heard in my life."

I think he had it right the first time. Now, if one were trying to bring something like The Munsters to the big screen, that might be a great direction to take, . . . .

"Ripley and Hicks"? I don't remember any romance there. Respect, certainly. Affection, maybe. No romance.

To those who like the idea of a Romeo and Juliet-scenario, why not just see or rent the DiCaprio (or some other recent twenty-something) revisionist version? What's the appeal of this?

I don't see how this can work without being laughably incredible (or is that "incredibly laughable"???). Of course, it depends on what "works" for you.

The anticipatory reactions in this thread seem to indicate that the points of appeal about this film to a mass audience are (in order) (1) the girl in slick leather and (2) the "action sequences" (vampires with guns and "martial arts"?!?!?). (Do the werewolves get RPG's?)

I note in the postings no werewolf pictures. Are they hiding the lycanthropic make-up (effects?)?

This might make a good "action movie", but I hate to tell Mr. Wiseman: "unique" it ain't!

"Delenda est . . . . "

Andy Sheets

From what I've read of the movie, that's actually what Wiseman is getting at - that the romance angle is being a bit overplayed by the marketing people and that aside from one or two kisses the characters share, it's basically just an all-out action movie in which the main characters have a tight bond. They used the idea of a romance as a starting point in crafting the movie but didn't indulge in it very much.


They're in the trailer. I wish they had more fur but thought they looked okay *shrug*

Vlad D

Been seeing quite a bit of the trailer for Underworld on TV lately, and I am totally psyched. September 19th can't come soon enough!

MickeS

Saw the trailer a couple of times on TV the other night, looks really cool, and really derivative. The look of the effects made me think this was a promo for a new TV-series though (actually, the first few moments of the trailer made me hope that "Birds of Prey" had been resurrected ), I hadn't heard anything about this movies before and was surprised to see at the end of the trailer that it was a movie.

Unless it gets stellar reviews, this is a rental for me.

/Mike

Dave Gilbert

It's being screened as part of Midnight Madness at the Toronto Film Festival. I think I'll try to get an early look, even if it means dragging ass at work the next day. If I manage to get tickets, I'll post a review.

Will_B

That poster is indeed great. It was great the first time too:



Perhaps the same crew is involved.

Ken Chan

So that's the first poster ever with a woman on a ledge with the moon in the background?

//Ken

Michael Martin

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