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Directed by | Len Wiseman |
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Screenplay by | Danny McBride |
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Based on | Characters created by Kevin Grevioux Len Wiseman Danny McBride |
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Music by | Marco Beltrami |
Cinematography | Simon Duggan |
Edited by | Nicolas Del Toth |
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Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
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106 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $45 million |
Box office | $113.4 million |
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Released | January 10, 2006 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock, alternative metal, post-hardcore, industrial, nu metal, metalcore, gothic metal | |||
Length | 62:19 | |||
Label | Lakeshore | |||
Producer | Skip Williamson, Brain McNelis & Len Wiseman | |||
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Underworld: Evolution (Original Score) | ||||
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Film score by Marco Beltrami | ||||
Released | February 28, 2006 | |||
Length | 75:56 | |||
Label | Lakeshore Records | |||
Producer | Skip Williamson, Brain McNelis & Len Wiseman | |||
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Underworld: Evolution is a 2006 American action horror film directed by Len Wiseman. The film is a sequel to the 2003 film, Underworld and the second installment in the Underworld franchise. In the film, Selene and Michael fight to protect the future of the Corvinus bloodline from its hidden past.
In 1202, an army led by the three vampire elders (Markus, Viktor, and Amelia) arrives at a Lycan-ravaged village. Viktor and Amelia capture their target, Markus's twin brother, William Corvinus, the first and most powerful werewolf. Despite Markus's defiance, Viktor orders that William be imprisoned in a secret location forever.
In the present day, vampire Selene takes Michael to a safe house so that she can confront the vampire regent Kraven; she knows that Kraven intends to kill Markus and plans to stop him. However, Markus has awakened before Kraven arrives. Markus kills Kraven and his men. Lorenz Macaro, an elderly man, sends in a team of "cleaners" to investigate the aftermath from the battle in the Lycans' lair. When Macaro examines Viktor's corpse he finds a metal disc inside which is the match to a pendant originally worn by Sonja. The other half of the pendant is now possessed by Michael after the death of Lucian.
Markus tracks Selene and Michael down and attacks them, but they evade him and hide in a warehouse. There, Selene and Michael share their feelings and have passionate sex. Now knowing that the pendant is important to Markus, Michael and Selene set out to discover why Markus wants it. Selene recalls that she saw it as a child, but does not know its significance. They travel to the hideout of the exiled vampire historian Andreas Tanis.