'Underworld' at 20: Director says franchise still has a future

Think 2008's Twilight was the first movie in which vampires warred with werewolves? Think again. Director Len Wiseman's 2003 action-horror film Underworld starred Kate Beckinsale as a werewolf-hunting blood-sucker named Selene and beat the Kristen Stewart-Robert Pattinson YA romance to screens by five years. Still, Wiseman is well aware that some people think he got the idea for his film from Twilight. "Here's what's funny," the filmmaker tells EW, two decades after Underworld premiered in theaters. "Because Twilight was such a massive success, people at Comic-Con would ask if Underworld was inspired by Twilight. I'd be like, 'Okay, I don't even know if Kristen Stewart was born [when we made the movie].' But I get that a lot, as years go on. It's like, 'You did a dark, gritty version of Twilight.' I go, 'No, they did a glossier romantic version of [Underworld].'" Underworld was always something of an underdog, an appropriate term given the film's large contingent of werewolves, or "lyc...