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Kate Beckinsale Vows That She’s Completely Done With the ‘Underworld’ Franchise
It’s looking like 2016’s Underworld: Blood Wars will go down as the last hurrah for Kate Beckinsale as franchise heroine Selene, the character she played across four films beginning with 2003’s Underworld. In a new chat with Variety, Beckinsale definitively states this week that she’s 100% done with the Underworld franchise.
“I wouldn’t return,” she told the site. “I’ve done plenty of those.“
Previously, Beckinsale did not return in 2009’s Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, but she came back for both Awakening and Blood Wars. And with that, she’s hanging up the latex suit.
In the eyes of Hollywood, this probably means a remake is next on the menu!
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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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