Okay, so the hottie this time around isn’t going to be Kate Beckinsale, but I am sure most of you won’t mind seeing Rhona Mitra dawn the skin tight leather, and that is what it looks like is going to happen as Lakeshore Entertainment and Screen Gems are teaming together to bring Underworld 3: The Rise of the Lycans to the big screen. Patrick Tatopoulos, who developed the creatures for the first two films in the franchise, is set to helm the feature with previous helmer of the first two, Len Wiseman, producing with Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Skip Williamson.
Alongside Mitra, Michael Sheen will be back as Lucian, the werewolf you met in the first film along with Bill Nighy returning as big dick vampire Viktor. Mitra plays Sonja in the prequel story tracing the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires known as Death Dealers and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. In the Dark Ages, a young Lycan named Lucian (Sheen) emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has enslaved them. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, Sonja (Mitra), in his battle against the Death Dealer army and his struggle for Lycan freedom. Danny McBride, who was part of the writing team on the first two and played Mason, penned the screenplay.
Wiseman tells Variety, “For the first time we will experience the ‘Underworld’ universe through the eyes of the Lycans. Patrick has always played such an essential part in helping to create Underworld from the start. … So I feel it is both exciting and fitting that (he) now takes the helm.”
Okay, so based on what we have just learned we might not get Mitra in a leather suit, but I have to assume she will be wearing something revealing.
Personally I am a fan of this series for no other reason than they entertain me. I realize they aren’t very good movies, but I like them nonetheless. I like the idea of taking a different look at the franchise by going the werewolf route and hope Tatopoulos keeps with the environment created in the first films, at least visually.
