Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

[Britnasty]

'Final Destination' Reboot in the Works With 'Saw' Franchise Writers (Exclusive)

New Line is gearing up for another trip with Death.

The company is restarting its Final Destination horror franchise, hiring scary movie mavens Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan to pen the script.

Final Destination proved to be a cornerstone for New Line’s horror business in the early 2000s. The first movie, released in 2000, set up the conceit: a character has a premonition of a horrific and deadly event, cheats his or her own death and saves several other lives’ in the process, only to have Death, as an unpersonified but unstoppable force, come, one by one, for the survivors.

The first movie was directed by James Wong and starred Devon Sawa and Ali Larter, making $112 million worldwide on only a $23 million budget. Four more installments followed through 2011, with the franchise balancing shock, blood and giggles while being a consistent moneymaker for New Line, grossing almost $700 million, even as the deaths became more and more elaborate.

Plot details for the sixth installment, which is being billed as a re-imagining of the franchise, were not revealed.

New Line is one of the few major companies working with horror, which is consistent with its long history, dating back to the A Nightmare on Elm Street years in the 1980s. Now it serving up chills via The Conjuring Universe, with a new Annabelle project being released July 3, and will open the second part of its Stephen King adaptation, It Chapter Two, Sept. 6.

Melton and Dunstan are horror vets best known for penning four of the Saw movies. They were winners on season three of Project Greenlight and also wrote Piranha 3DD. The penned the upcoming Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark for CBS Films and are working with horror producers Platinum Dunes on an untitled Christmas horror project set up at Sony and The Reckoning at Paramount.

The duo is repped by Verve, Underground, and Bloom Hergott.

Hollywood Reporter

[Foggy]

Isn’t Final Destination just one of those series that’s loose enough that continuity doesn’t really matter anyway. Like labelling it a reboot is just the same as making a sixth film without any tie ins.

[phobicsquirrel]

Easy pass no reason to do it just do a sequel, they've been okay. Plus the first is rather good and the ladies are hot!

[Morsoth]

Too bad they never finished their Final Destination 6 idea. Or maybe that's what they plan to do?

You can see the Concept Trailer here:

Final Destination 6 Concept Trailer - YouTube

[doctor_who]

Sequel/reboot/reimagining/prequel, whatever, it's all the same, just give me another Final Destination.

They are probably calling it a reboot just so they can call it Final Destination and not "Final Destination 6"...they already did a "The Final Destination" so that's out...

[jacobsever]

If it's not Rated R, there will be no point.

[Morsoth]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

If it's not Rated R, there will be no point.

All the previous Final Destination movies are rated 'R'. Why do you think it would be any different for this one?

[Britbuffguy]

Why?

[ArmyOfDarknessAW]

1 and 3 are pretty awesome. I’m good with more of this franchise.

[Bugg]

What is Hollywood's aversion to numbered sequels these days?

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

If it's not Rated R, there will be no point.

That's why most watched these movies. For the insane over the top deaths. Otherwise it be pointless.

[gyrfalcon]

On the one hand, the series (one of my personal favorites) ended on a high note with FD5, and it'd be a shame to undo that just for some pointless story that adds nothing to the mythology of the franchise except more gruesome deaths.

But on the other hand, maybe the writers actually have some decent ideas and a surprise or two up their sleeves, and if nothing else, I can put this on my "guilty pleasure" list like most of the other FD films.

Either way, I'll probably see it.

[cinemaphile]

I am all for more FD. Even the worst ones were guilty pleasure fun for me. Plus the last couple knew how to use 3D very well, the embraced it for the gimmick that it is.


HOWEVER, they will almost certainly make these PG13 now. They want that teen audience $$.

[nashcameronn]

Wonder what the opening could be? So far we've had a plane explosion, highway crash, rollercoaster crash, NASCAR race, and a bridge collapse.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Originally Posted by nashcameronn

Wonder what the opening could be? So far we've had a plane explosion, highway crash, rollercoaster crash, NASCAR race, and a bridge collapse.

On a movie set. Go totally meta.

[MazeRunner]

I was hoping they'd make another film with the original's 20th anniversary coming up.

They should do an air show disaster for the opening scene

[yeslek]

Urgh, really?

Thi why CBM do so well ax at least they aren’t bloody reboots

[Worship.my.wreck]

The last one had the perfect ending. Why mess that up?

I'll still see this regardless though.

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by yeslek

Urgh, really?

Thi why CBM do so well ax at least they aren’t bloody reboots

Really? Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man have all been rebooted twice so far.

[AaronJ]

1, 3, and 5 were all really good. Actually I think 3 might be the best.

I'm down for more, surely. They're fun movies.