Last October we told you out of the New York Comic-Con that Kate Beckinsale would return to star in the next Underworld.

THR writes this evening that the actress has now officially signed on to reprise her vampire character Selene in the fifth installment in the franchise from Lakeshore Entertainment and Screen Gems.

Directing the movie is Anna Foerster, who did 2nd unit work as well as acting a director of photography as Roland Emmerich’s right hand woman on movies such as The Day After Tomorrow and White House Down.

Tentatively titled Underworld V, the Underworld sequel will star franchise vamp Theo James, and potentially focus on Selene (Beckinsale) and Michael Corvin’s (Scott Speedman) hybrid daughter, Eve.

Cory Goodman wrote the script, whose plot details are being kept shut in a coffin but is said to focus on a new and younger generation of vampires and werewolves who are locked in a seemingly never-ending battle between supernatural races.

Underworld: Next Generation will shoot October in Prague.