Underworld - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Underworld or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Underworld

[ken]

'Selene', the heroine's name, is the Moon in Greek mythology.

[beth]

The song used for the trailer is called "Red Tape" by 'Agent Provocateur'.

[sophie]

Kate Beckinsale ironically played a human who fights vampires a year later in Van Helsing (2004).

[kenneth]

The name of the city where the film took place is never mentioned. However Michael's address that we can see on Selene's computer is an apparently misspelled Hungarian address (it should be "Lakatos József u. 39." while it is spelled as "Laktos Joszef 39 ut." instead). You can also read "Eötvös utca", a street in the historical downtown of Budapest, many times while driving by to the secret interrogation place and there is an ad in the subway station where the shooting takes place in the beginning of the movie referring to Szentendre which is a small town near Budapest (obviously left there as non-Hungarian viewers don't understand the text anyway).

[riley]

A 9mm Heckler & Koch USP Match equipped with a Jet Funnel extended magazine well makes its first appearance when it is given to Selene by Kahn to test out. When she fires it, silver liquid comes out of the target, and we learn that the gun is loaded with Silver Nitrate bullets which were copied from the Lycan's ultraviolet ammunition, and are very lethal to the werewolves as it allows silver to flow into their blood stream. Towards the end of the film, Kraven uses the same USP Match loaded with the same ammunition to shoot and later deliver the coup de grace to Lucien. It should be noted that silver nitrate is actually clear in liquid form, but the liquid used resembles mercury.

[kylie]

Not only in this movie did Kate Beckinsale meet her future husband, director Len Wiseman, but at the time she was in a long term relationship with actor Michael Sheen, who played Lucian. Michael and Kate share a daughter together who appears in the film during a flashback of when Selene was younger. Michael and Len have since become very close friends and have collaborated with each other on Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009). Michael and Kate still remain very close and both are raising their daughter equally. Kate has stated that Michael is her best friend and that they still remain very close.

[tamara]

The iconic handguns used by Selene are heavily modified Beretta 92FSes, made to look like the Beretta 93R. They have also been modified to fire in full automatic mode (3-Shot Burst, actually; If you slow down the scenes you can see 3 rounds fire per trigger pull) and contain barrel weights attached (possibly standing in for compensators). They use 20 or 30 round box magazines, she also uses a pair of two-tone Walther P99s fitted with Laser Devices BA-5 laser sights at the bottom of the barrels. The guns have been modified to lessen the weight required on the trigger to fire, almost as if they were fully automatic,- You can see Selene pulling the trigger for every shot, but you hear fully automatic fire. (Most notably in the subway shootout, when Selene fires on the fleeing Werewolf in the train.)

[nora]

Selene was sired by Viktor when she was 19, and as an unaging vampire she should probably look about the same age, Kate Beckinsale was actually 30 years old at the time.

[ethel]

(at around 9 mins) After the underground station fight, the tunnels where Selene kills a Lycan are a champagne cellar.

[jessica]

The name Corvin, derived from Corvinus is most likely a reference to Mathius Corvinus of Moldavia who was an ally of Vlad Tepes, the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.

[harry]

(at around 1h 27 mins) Although Lucian is the lead Lycan, he only ever shifts once into his full werewolf form, and that's in a flashback scene.

[javier]

At the time of the first film, Kate Beckinsale had been mostly doing period pieces and playing lovely girls. She took the role to shake the image a little. The success of this and Van Helsing turned her into an Action Girl in the 2000s. 2016's Love & Friendship is a return to her period roots.

[chad]

The creators of the series approached Marvel Studios about doing a crossover with the Blade franchise, with Wesley Snipes presumably reprising his role. Marvel declined, saying they wanted to leave the door open to do something with Blade on their own terms.

[chris]

Raze (Kevin Grevioux) uses two, 9x19mm Steyr TMPs.

[miriam]

The film seems to have been conceived (in part) as a modern update on the old Universal Horror films of the 1930s and 1940s. So instead of black velvet evening gowns and spooky organs, it featured a whole cast of characters in Matrix-inspired black latex trench coats, and its soundtrack prominently featured Evanescence's Amy Lee just as she was becoming a goth icon. It still maintains a pretty loyal cult following (there's a reason it spawned four sequels, after all), but most of what made it seem "modern" in 2003 now makes it seem nearly as dated as the old-fashioned horror films that it was updating.

[jamie]

The underground tunnels used for the Lycan/vampire battle at the end of the movie were mostly shots of the same small rubble set, but shot from different angles and lighting in order to make it look like different locations underground. During the DVD commentary, director Len Wiseman laughed at this fact and pointed out the scenes in which this trick photography was used.

[janice]

Many Lycans (including Lucien) use nickel-plated Desert Eagle Mark VIIs chambered in .44 Magnum as their handguns. They are loaded with hollow bullets filled with a special irradiated fluid that emits ultraviolet light: "Sunlight used as a weapon." Selene takes a Desert Eagle loaded with the special bullets off a Lycan warrior, Trix (Todd Schneider) in the beginning of the film. Lucian (Michael Sheen) also has one at the end of the film.

[victoria]

According to writer/actor Kevin Grevioux, the model for the Selene character was the psychic vampire of the Hellfire Club in the X-Men comics, the Black Queen Selene.

[harry]

Michael Sheen plays a Lycan (aka) a werewolf who dislikes vampires because of the war in which his vampire girlfriend was killed. In a later movie however he plays a vampire who hates werewolves in the Twilight Saga.