14 DAY TRIAL // Two months after Kate Beckinsale’s involvement in the fourth “Underworld” film was confirmed, the first details about the much-anticipated project are coming to light: a possible title and synopsis have emerged online.
AceShowbiz reports that Bloody Disgusting has it from very reliable sources (though nothing has been confirmed yet) that the fourth film will be called “Underworld 4: New Dawn.”
Kate Beckinsale will be involved in it, as we also reported back in September this year, but many fans may find her role not to their liking since reports have it that she won’t be getting that much screen time.
As a matter of fact, Beckinsale’s character will only be used in the fourth film to introduce a new, surprising character: a daughter.
“After being held in a coma-like state for fifteen years, vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) learns that she has a fourteen-year-old vampire / Lycan hybrid daughter, Nissa, and when she finds her they must stop BioCom from creating super Lycans that will kill them all,” BD writes of the plot, as per AceShowbiz.
So, instead of focusing on Selene, like the first two films in the franchise did, the fourth installment will deal more with Nissa’s life and adventures.
“It was said [Beckinsale’s] appearance will be short because she will ‘pass the torch’ to her daughter. It has not been announced who will portray Selene’s daughter,” AceShowbiz writes.
Since the film doesn’t drop in theaters until early 2012, there’s still plenty of time to decide who will play the newcomer vampire, Nissa.
“Meanwhile, Swedish directing team Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein have been tapped to work behind the lens of ‘Underworld 4,’ which is currently slated for January 20, 2012 release in the US,” AceShowbiz says.
The film officially goes into production in March 2011 in Vancouver, on the condition everything goes according to schedule – which also means more details are bound to emerge soon.