Kate Beckinsale Returning for 'Underworld 5'

 

The actress has signed on to reprise her vampire character Selene in the fifth installment in the franchise from Lakeshore Entertainment and Screen Gems.

Directing the movie is Anna Foerster, who did 2^nd unit work as well as acting a director of photography as Roland Emmerichs right hand woman on movies such as The Day After Tomorrow and White House Down. This is the first time that a woman is directing the female-led action horror franchise. (And her hire was made before Tuesdays report by the ACLU which took studios to task about gender inequalities.)
Cory Goodman wrote the script, whose plot details are being kept shut in a coffin but is said to focus on a new and younger generation of vampires and werewolves who are locked in a seemingly never-ending battle between supernatural races.
Theo James, who appeared briefly in 2012s Underworld: Awakening, is attached to reprise his character in this latest one as he fulfills an option agreement.
The movie will shoot October in Prague.
Foerster, who has also directed episodes of Starzs Outlander, is repped by Gersh.
Beckinsale has Relativity's supernatural thriller The Disappointments Room and Whit Stillmans Jane Austen adaptation Love and Friendship, in which she stars opposite Chloe Sevigny and Xavier Samuel, in post.