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Five films, then a stop
Underworld: Blood Wars was released in 2016 as the fifth entry, and the series has not continued. There has been no announcement of a sixth film, no production, no cast, no date.
The clearest statement on the record is from January 2026, when Kate Beckinsale ruled out any involvement, citing the conduct of the people who own the property. Whatever else that leaves open, it closes the continuation most of the audience would be asking about: a Selene film without Beckinsale is a different proposition, and one the franchise has not tested.
Reboot talk, and what it is worth
Franchise creator Len Wiseman has spoken about a reboot. Read carefully, that is a word rather than a project: no writer, no director, no cast and no timeline have been attached to it.
This tracker treats a mentioned reboot as insufficient to mark an entry dead, for a specific reason. A reboot that displaces a sequel — as happened with Kick-Ass 3, where the replacement has actually been filmed — is an ending. A reboot that has only been described is not; it is one more thing that has been said about a dormant property.
What the position actually is
Three things are true at once, and they are easy to conflate:
- No sixth film is in production, and none has been announced.
- The performer most identified with the series has ruled herself out, on the record and for stated reasons.
- A restart has been floated by the creator without any of the commitments that would make it real.
Taken together that is a franchise between phases rather than one being actively continued or formally closed. Ten years on from Blood Wars, the practical reading is that nothing is coming soon.