Underworld (2003): 25 SECRETS Hidden for Years

A first-time director with no feature credits, a 22 million dollar budget and a cast of British actors working in condemned Hungarian buildings somehow produced a gothic action film that opened at number one and launched a franchise running five films across thirteen years. This video covers 25 production secrets from behind it. The pitch that crossed three other movies together, the pencil storyboards that convinced Kate Beckinsale to take a part she was ready to refuse, and the microbiology degree that rewrote vampire mythology from the ground up. Also the werewolf suits that took four people to operate, the single rigged support that gave the subway shootout exactly one take, the tame guard dogs with barking added in post, the sealed cellar that left the cast unwell, the roof that came down on a sound truck, the cameo David Bowie never got to film, and the copyright case that closed in a confidential settlement the month the film reached cinemas.