Underworld

[Azure Trance]

The first time I noticed it was about a month ago when I saw Kate Beckinsales face on a small blurb on www.imdb.com Reading it, it had to do something with Vampires in the modern world. Forgot about it until I saw an ad today which directed me to the trailor, a bit more info. Vampires are the elite of today, and they've been engaged in a many century long war against the werewolves. I saw a reference that it was a 'ripoff' of Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novels, but I never read that series. It looks like it has a high production quality to it. ETA: Fall 2003

Trailor:
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/underworld/

 

[Alzrius]

Hmm, the trailer really does make it seem like a rip-off of the Anita Blake books, which I've read all of so far. Still, it looks different just enough that Laurell K. Hamilton probably won't be able to sue.

That aside, it looked...interesting. I'm trying to be more excited, but after that justified comparisson, and how there have been quite a few vampire movies in the last couple of years (Blade, Blade II, Dracula 2000, and Queen of the Damned to name a few), I just can't work up my enthusiasm as much as I otherwise could.

 

[John Crichton]

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48357

Hmmm, mind as well delete the one I started on this topic.

I say it looks interesting but anytime there is a first-time director and writer team involved I am wary.

 

[Dismas]

I saw it and thought, hmmmmm wonder if White Wolf know anything about this? So did a suprising number of slashdotters when the link to the trailer was published.

 

[Shadowdancer]

One bad sign -- it's coming out in September. That's traditionally a time of year that film companies dump movies that didn't turn out very well. It's called the Dog Days, cause that's when they release their dogs.

 

[Azure Trance]

One bad sign -- it's coming out in September. That's traditionally a time of year that film companies dump movies that didn't turn out very well. It's called the Dog Days, cause that's when they release their dogs.

Ha. That's interesting, I never knew that.

 

[Assenpfeffer]

...there have been quite a few vampire movies in the last couple of years (Blade, Blade II, Dracula 2000, and Queen of the Damned to name a few), I just can't work up my enthusiasm as much as I otherwise could.

I just saw Queen of the Damned on cable a couple of weeks ago. Man was it awful.

Hint to future filmmakers adapting Anne Rice books: Lestat is French. Akasha is Eqyptian, or possibly Mesopotamian. Do not have the actors use bad Bela Lugosi accents.

Also, Claudia Black is very attractive. Do not make her look like a worn-out skank.

This despite the fact that I thought Stuart Townsend was a pretty good choice for Lestat.