Truth is, the first Twilight movie didn't hit theaters until , and prior to that point, the realm of vampire cinema was already a bit of a mess thanks to underwhelming releases like Dracula, , Queen of the Damned , and the unfortunate trilogy-capper Blade: Trinity Of all the bland vampire flicks to hit theaters in the early '00s few were quite as forgettable as the Hugh Jackman vehicle Van Helsing Oddly enough, just a year prior, Jackman's co-star in that film, Kate Beckinsale , had briefly helped re-invigorate the genre by suiting up as a badass, death-dealing bloodsucker in the lean, mean action machine Underworld.
As you'll recall, Beckinsale's character in Underworld, Selene, was caught in the middle of a centuries-old war between vampires and their werewolf enemies, the Lycans. She was also tasked primarily with finding and eradicating the remaining members of the Lycan race. This task that gets prickly for Selene when she finds the Lycan leader Lucian desperately trying to get his hands on and teeth into a seemingly normal human Scott Speedman.
His face may not have been familiar to many when Underworld debuted in , but if you've revisited the movie or the first two sequels in the Underworld franchise in the years since, you almost certainly recognized the mug on Lucian.
It belongs to the great Michael Sheen , an actor who's turned up in dozens of film and television projects over the past two decades. Here's why Lucian from Underworld looks so familiar. If you're at all familiar with Michael Sheen's impressive cinematic oeuvre, you know he's proven one of the more dexterous actors around over the years, delivering winning turns in dramas, comedies, and genre fare alike.
In , Sheen went full creeper for his role in the mercilessly macabre and wonderfully weird Netflix thriller Apostle. Set in the early days of the 20th Century, Apostle was written and directed by Gareth Evans The Raid , and follows a troubled man Dan Stevens who travels to a remote UK island to recover his sister after she's been kidnapped by a dangerous religious cult and held for ransom. Upon arriving on the island and infiltrating the group's tight-knit community, both man and cult find that not all is as it seems in this isolated corner of the world.
Equal parts bone-chilling mystery and sublimely gothic freak show, Apostle was easily one of the most disturbing movies released in , and remains one of the streaming giant's most underrated genre offerings. Lucian also forms an alliance with Tanis after his exile from the Vampire Coven , in which Tanis provides him with ultraviolet ammunition for use in the war against the Vampires.
In return, Lucian provides Tanis with first-generation Lycans, which Tanis uses as guard dogs, and a relatively comfortable existence. Lucian in Underworld. He sends two of his lieutenants, Raze and Trix , to find and kidnap Michael, so that his blood can be tested. Raze and Trix are so intent on catching Michael that they don't notice they're being followed by three Death Dealers: Selene, Nathaniel , and Rigel.
Once Raze recognizes the three Vampires, a gun battle ensues, in which Michael escapes amongst the confusion. Trix is killed by Selene, while Nathaniel and Rigel are killed by the two Lycans. While running from Raze, Selene comes upon a vent in the subway that allows her to hear the Lycans in their lair. She quickly returns to the Vampire mansion, and informs her superiors of this. At the time, Kraven is the regent of the Coven and the only waking Vampire Elder, Amelia, is in America , which ensures that Lucian and his allies are not hunted down immediately.
Ignoring Kraven's orders to stop looking into the Lycan den , Selene begins to unravel the truth about the Lycans' plot to use Michael's blood to create a Hybrid. Lucian arrives at Michael's apartment and ambushes him, but Selene intervenes and shoots him several times. Lucian grabs Michael and bites him, infecting him with the Lycan virus. Before Lucian can do anything else, Selene drags Michael away from him, but Lucian keeps a small amount of Michael's blood in his mouth, which he then spits into a vial.
He pushes the bullets out of his body, then attacks Selene and Michael as they try to drive away. He is able to stab Selene in the shoulder, severing an artery, before she throws him from the car and tries to run him over. Despite his efforts, Selene survives his attack and Michael is taken back to the Vampires' lair.
Having been infected by Lucian's bite, Michael begins to see memories of Lucian's past, and of the night Sonja died. Lucian partially transforming. Added by AlessaGillespie Things begin to spiral out of control when Kraven argues with Selene and suffers an ill-timed slip of the tongue. In his anger with Selene's kidnapping of Michael, Kraven accidentally refers to Lucian in the present tense, triggering Selene's suspicions.
Selene breaks into the restricted area of the Vampires' library, and is there able to discover that the Lycan who attacked her the previous night is Lucian. Frightened by this, she awakens Viktor a century ahead of schedule, and informs him that Lucian is still alive. Viktor, angered by Selene's growing relationship with Michael Corvin, chooses not to believe her, and so gives Lucian and Kraven the time needed to set their plan into motion.
Lucian returns to the Lycan den and tests Michael's blood, which tests positive for the Corvinus Strain. He then orders Singe to take a small group of heavily armed Lycans and track Selene, with the hopes that Selene will lead them to Michael.
Due to the meddling of a love-sick servant girl named Erika , who is infatuated with Kraven, Selene is able to escape the mansion and leads the Lycans to Michael.
Michael is captured by Pierce and Taylor , two of Lucian's lieutenants, and is taken to the den. There, Lucian draws Michael's blood and injects himself with it, creating the first step towards becoming a Hybrid.
The second step is to gain access to Amelia's blood, so that Lucian can inject himself with that as well. On the night that Marcus Corvinus is due to be awakened as part of the Chain , Lucian sends Raze and a team of fully transformed Lycans to attack and kill the Elder Amelia and the Vampire Council. Once the Council is dead and Amelia is incapacitated, Raze drains her of her blood, which he then takes back to the Lycan den.
Before Raze can return, Kraven arrives at the den, having fled the mansion after a tortured Singe revealed the truth about Lucian's status and the Lycans' plans for Michael to Selene and Viktor.
Kraven and Lucian argue heatedly as the first sounds of battle reach them, confirming that the Death Dealers have found the lair. While preparing to join the battle, Lucian berates and insults Kraven, who then angrily shoots Lucian in the back with a Silver Nitrate gun , a weapon specifically designed to kill Lycans, ensuring Lucian's eventual death. Lucian taunts Kraven as he dies. Added by AlessaGillespie Lucian regains consciousness several minutes later to see Michael and Selene together.
He realizes that Selene and Michael are in love, and that they have become the modern day Lucian and Sonja. Ironically, Selene is the adoptive daughter of Viktor, who turned her due to her startling resemblance to Sonja. Seeing that history is repeating itself, and realizing his part is finished, Lucian injures Kraven by stabbing him in the leg, but not before Kraven is able to shoot Michael.
As Michael is dying, Lucian tells Selene to bite him, rationalizing that her bite will offset the effects of the Silver Nitrate, making Michael a Hybrid in the process. Lucian dies satisfied, knowing that his wife and unborn child will be avenged and his goal has been achieved. Lucian's will is carried out when Michael is fully transformed into a Hybrid and Viktor is killed by Selene in retaliation for the murder of her own family, as well as that of Sonja.
As a final reminder of Lucian and Sonja's struggle, Selene picks up Sonja's pendant and carries it with her as she and Michael leave the Lycan den. Lucian is seen in flashbacks in Underworld: Evolution , and his corpse is seen lying on a table in the Sancta Helena , Alexander Corvinus's ship.
After being attacked by his son, Marcus, Alexander decides to commit suicide. In doing so, he blows up the entire ship, presumably completely obliterating Lucian's body. In the non-canon prequel Blood Enemy , which explores an alternative origin to the war to that witnessed in Rise of the Lycans , Lucian is merely one of many Lycans, rather than the first of his kind. In his role as reeve to the castle's Lycan servants, he retains his admiration for the Vampires and distaste for his own feral nature that was shown in Rise of the Lycans , helping to defend the castle from the insane Brother Ambrose during a mortal raid in the daylight.
The Vampires even compliment his original strategy of releasing bats to drive the superstitious mortals away. His relationship with Sonja, here a fair-haired princess rather than a dark-haired Death Dealer, begins when he saves her from another raid that culminates in the death of Sonja's mother, Ilona , the two spending the day in a tomb underneath an abandoned monastery to escape the sunlight.
Sonja insists that Lucian refer to her by name rather than title, expressing doubt that his noble spirit could have ever been a renegade even if he had not been taken in by the Vampires, and showing no fear of him when he transforms into his wolf form in front of her. When Viktor announces that Sonja will marry Nicolae , the Vampire son of Marcus, Sonja's despair prompts her to arrange a meeting with Lucian to discuss her feelings, resulting in the two of them admitting to their love for each other.
After a month of secret meetings in the castle's old chapel, Sonja learns that she is pregnant, and the two marry in a private symbolic ceremony before setting out to leave the castle, only for Viktor to learn of their relationship due to the treachery of Leyba , a Lycan who is infatuated with Lucian.
Although initially apparently content to just whip Lucian, when Sonja reveals her pregnancy, Viktor has Sonja burned to death, driving Lucian to escape that night. Taking charge of a pack of wild Lycans, Lucian takes control of a Vampire silver mine , only for his army to be destroyed when Nicolae leads a raid on the mine.
However, although Lucian's forces are destroyed, Lucian escapes when his anger at Nicolae causes him to transform without the full moon for the first time, tearing Nicolae apart before fleeing himself. In scenes set shortly before the original Underworld , Lucian is briefly captured by Leyba, who has spent centuries underground awaiting a chance at revenge after Viktor set her on fire and threw her over the castle wall for her role in his daughter's death, but he escapes when Selene leads a raid on Leyba's hideout.
Being born of two werewolves, he was a pure-blood Lycan. Why is Alexander Corvinus immortal? In the Underworld series both Alexander Corvinus and Viktor were 5th century Hungarian warlords before they became immortal.
Alexander became the first immortal by surviving a plague, discovering that he possessed a rare genetic mutation, allowing him to be immune to any disease. Why did Lucian inject Michael's blood? Why is she so special?
Question: In the first Underworld movie Lucian injects himself with Michael's blood, which is said to be the last descendant of Alexander Corvinus. In Underworld Evolution Selene drinks Alexander Corvinus' blood, which makes her immune to Ultraviolet ammunition and the sunlight. Who is the oldest vampire in Underworld? The original Elders are the three oldest known Vampires.
By the end of Underworld: Blood Wars, three new Elders were chosen. When was Lucian born? Why does Marcus have wings?
Marcus has the ability to fly thanks to his wings. The tips of his wings were also extremely sharp and could be used as weapons to impale, hook onto, or slash his opponents. Who was the first werewolf? Some scholars believe the werewolf made its debut in The Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest known Western prose, when Gilgamesh jilted a potential lover because she had turned her previous mate into a wolf. Werewolves made another early appearance in Greek mythology with the Legend of Lycaon.
Are Lycans immortal? In the Underworld franchise, Lycans and Werewolves are biologically immortal transgenics, as opposed to supernaturally immortal demons of pop culture.
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