Underworld (2003) on Netflix
R20032h 1mActionFantasyThriller
Selene, a vampire Death Dealer, hunts the werewolves called Lycans, though her coven no longer counts them a threat. When the Lycans fix on a doctor, Michael Corvin, she investigates alone.
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- Rotten Tomatoes31%
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Plot summary
Vampires and werewolves, called Lycans, have fought a secret war for generations. Selene is a Death Dealer, one of the vampires' assassins. She keeps up the hunt for Lycans even though the other vampires no longer see them as a threat. The vampires gained the upper hand years ago, when the Lycan leader Lucian was believed to have died at the hands of the vampire Kraven, who afterward became second-in-command to the elders. Selene finds that the Lycans are after Michael Corvin, an ordinary doctor, and looks into him on her own.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Underworld (2003)
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- To coincide with the film's release, Sony Pictures commissioned developer Black Widow Games to build a promotional Half-Life mod called Underworld: Bloodline, playable on Sony's official website until the end of 2007. It is the only officially licensed Half-Life mod tied to a Hollywood movie.
- Kevin Grevioux graduated from Howard University with a degree in microbiology, then dropped out of graduate studies and moved to Los Angeles to act. He wrote the original screenplay, inspired by Romeo and Juliet and by his college studies, basing vampirism and lycanthropy on a viral mutagen rather than mythology.
- White Wolf, Inc. and Nancy A. Collins filed a copyright infringement lawsuit claiming the setting was too similar to the Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse games and to the Sonja Blue vampire novels, with 17 counts and over 80 claimed points of unique similarity.
- White Wolf, Inc. also said the script was very similar to a 1994 story it published, The Love of Monsters, written by Nancy A. Collins. A judge granted White Wolf an expedited hearing in September 2003, and the lawsuit ended in a confidential settlement.
- The soundtrack's rearrangement of David Bowie's Bring Me the Disco King, released in its original form on his album Reality the same month, features Maynard James Keenan of Tool and A Perfect Circle and guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
