Beckinsale Confirmed for UNDERWORLD 4

After months of speculation, it's been confirmed that Kate Beckinsale will be returning to the Underworld series she helped make popular with her husband-director Len Wiseman. HR reports she's closing a deal to reprise her role as vampire heroine Selene in Screen Gems and Lakeshore Entertainment's fourth installment of the successful franchise.
In a subplot reveal, the trade also confirmed the story will be taking place after the second tale Underworld: Evolution since there's an open casting search for someone to play Selene's daughter. Scribe John Hlavin wrote the original draft, with J. Michael Straczynski later hired for script revisions.
A search is underway for a director, with original helmer Wiseman being on board as a producer alongside Lakeshore Entertainment's Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi. With a release in January 2012, production on the next installment is set to begin in Vancouver in March 2011.