New 'Final Destination' film in the works
The anxiety and paranoia continues as a new installment for the Final Destination franchise is in the works.
Production company New Line Cinema confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter and detailed that they have tapped writer Lori Evans Taylor to pen the next film.
Taylor had co-written the recent addition Final Destination Bloodlines, which was released in May.
Series producers Craig Perry, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Jon Watts, Dianne McGunigle, and Toby Emmerich are also set to return to work on the project, with Warren Zide serving as executive producer.
While plot details have yet to be revealed, the new Final Destination movie is expected to follow the same formula as its predecessors.
Since its 2000 premiere, the series has revolved around a small group of people cheating their own death. Despite still managing to see another day, the survivors meet their ends in the form of bizarre and gruesome accidents.
The series has garnered popularity in the horror genre because of its unseen antagonist that is the manifestation of death itself, and the one causing the fatal accidents by subtly manipulating the environment.
The latest chapter to the franchise, Bloodlines, grossed $286 million (P16.3 billion) worldwide and became both the best-reviewed and highest-grossing installment in the series.
The film follows a college student named Stefani inherits terrifying visions from her dying grandmother—survivor of a 1969 skyscraper collapse that never happened—only to learn that Death is back to claim the bloodline it missed. It served as Tony Todd's last film role before he passed away from stomach cancer.
