UNDERWORLD
by Len Wiseman
synopsis
Unknown to mankind, a war has raged for centuries between two species of the night: werewolves and vampires. In this battle – which is, in part, a vicious class struggle – the aristocratic and sophisticated Vampires are bent on the extermination of the brutal and animalistic lycanthropes, or Lycans. The werewolves have fared poorly over the years of conflict: driven toward extinction, they subsist in tunnels under the cities while vampires live in nocturnal luxury.
international title: | UNDERWORLD |
original title: | UNDERWORLD |
country: | United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary, United States |
sales agent: | Lakeshore Ltd (USA) |
year: | 2003 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Len Wiseman |
film run: | 121' |
release date: | UK 19/09/2003, FR 24/09/2003, GR 03/10/2003, IS 03/10/2003, BE 08/10/2003, LU 10/10/2003, ES 17/10/2003, CZ 27/11/2003, PL 28/11/2003, DK 05/12/2003, NO 05/12/2003, SI 12/12/2003 |
screenplay: | Danny McBride |
cast: | Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Shane Brolly, Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Kevin Grevioux, Danny McBride |
cinematography by: | Tony Pierce-Roberts |
film editing: | Martin Hunter |
art director: | Bruton Jones |
costumes designer: | Wendy Partridge |
music: | Paul Haslinger |
producer: | Richard S. Wright, Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi |
production: | Subterranean Films, Laurinfilm, Underworld Produktion (DE), Subterranean Films (USA) |
distributor: | Entertainment Film Distributors, SND (FR), Filmax (ES), HCE (CZ), Best Film (PL), Constantin Film (DK), Columbia TriStar Nordisk Film Distributors (NO) |