"A sixth film in this franchise..."
“They are finally working on a new Final Destination movie.”
“They basically announced that this is in the works over at New Line,
another Final Destination movie.”
Final Destination 6.
It’s happening.
But after covering near death experiences involving a plane crash, highway pile-up,
rollercoaster derail, NASCAR d-sas-tar, and a bridge collapse, what is in store for the
next installment of Final Destination?
Could fan-favorite character William Bludworth be involved?
Stay tuned.
"We're toying with having it take place in the world of first responders: EMTs, firemen
and police,” Perry said.
“These people deal with death on the front lines every day, and make choices that can
cause people to live or die…
We're thinking that world might be an interesting way into a Final Destination movie, and one
which can also generate unique set pieces in a very credible way."
That’s what series producer Craig Perry had to say about the next Final Destination,
but what I want to know is how this actually fits into the canon.
As someone who made a 30 minute video where I basically put everything, the movies, books
and comics into chronological order, I want to know where this movie takes place.
The lore is important to me.
The danger with coming out with a new installment after a long gap, is that these tend to reboot
the franchise, which means we’d be starting over with all new lore.
However, according to an interview series creator Jeffrey Reddick had with BD, that
will probably not be the case with the new Final Destination, but it will be set in a
“different world”.
So what does that mean?
A couple of possibilities come to mind.
There’s one scene that has always intrigued me most about the original Final Destination,
and it’s not that part where Death hides the evidence of how it took out Tod even though
nothing else like that happens in any of the other movies.
It’s the part where Clear and Alex sit on the beach together, look up at the stars,
and wonder what life would be like if the disasters that impacted both of their lives
had never happened.
ALEX: "You thing they're still up there? Somehow. Flight 180, are they still in flight?
Somewhere, are they safe?"
CLEAR: "I have thought a lot about that somewhere Alex. It exists, that place.
Where my Dad is still safe and I have no idea about this life here.
Where our friends are still in the sky.
Where everyone gets a second chance."
It exists.
A world where Flight 180 landed safely, exists.
What if Final Destination has a split timeline?
I would argue that it already does.
In the original movie, Flight 180 went down in the year 1999.
But in each of the sequels, the event took place in 2000.
Sure, this might just be a retcon, but I’ve come to justify it as two similar timelines,
where most of the events are the same, but in the sequel universe, everything takes place
a year later.
In fact, the very concept of the series seems to prove this to be true.
The visions that each protagonist has are what is supposed to happen, but they make
changes; they alter their destinies to survive.
Each time this happens, they create a new split in the timeline.
The world where they don’t intervene… it exists, they just didn’t go down that
path.
The original five are a set.
They go together.
I think there’s no way to avoid the next movie feeling different given how much time
has passed.
It’s like how you can put an “old photo filter” on a new photo, but it never feels
quite the same as a picture that was taken during that era.
So making a new continuity on a new timeline branch would help alleviate that issue and
prevent the new movie from stepping on the original five, which could upset fans.
We’ve seen this approach taken with the Halloween franchise basically becoming a choose-your-own-adventure,
but the idea fits much better with Final Destination where there’s an in-universe explanation
for it.
But what if I’m taking Jeffrey Reddick’s word a little too literally?
Maybe when he said it takes place in “a new world” all he meant was that instead
of taking place in the world of teenagers and young adults, it takes place
in the world of emergency responders and health care workers.
Speaking of which, there’s something I have to do.
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If we EVER want to see Final Destination 6, it’s entirely dependent on ending the COVID-19
pandemic, and it’s becoming clear that the only way that’s gonna happen, is if the
population gets vaccinated.
I wanted to show my experience so that everyone knows there’s nothing to be afraid of.
The needle is so small, you don’t even feel it go in.
I had a little bit of soreness for the next day or two, but it was never painful.
The night after the second dose I was feverish and had chills and a headache, but there was
never a moment where I felt scared, because I knew that this was the vaccine going to
work in my body to protect me, and the vaccine doesn’t contain the virus.
How it works is the vaccine basically contains the instructions that teach your body how
to produce the viral proteins that will be recognized by your immune system.
So if the virus, Sars-Cov-2 enters your system, your body will already know how to defeat
it, and prevent you from getting COVID-19.
It’s basically your Final Destination vision that can protect you from disaster, because
without the vaccine, you could become infected, and nobody can predict how sick you might
get -- it could be mild, severe or life threatening, not to mention other symptoms that may last
for months or longer.
Don’t worry, I made sure to run that by a few medical professionals before I said
it out loud on the internet.
I certainly hope the new Final Destination isn’t about a pandemic though.
I think this era represents a cultural shift for us.
Horror was super popular from 2014-2018 with a lot of darker stories like IT, Split and
A Quiet Place, and I can see the genre swinging back to something more lighthearted, much
how like Grunge was the dark and serious dominant genre of the 90s, but it got a little too
depressing for people after Kurt Cobain, and that’s when we started seeing the snot-nosed
pop punk acts blowing up: Blink-182, Sum 41, Green Day 75.
So I think the time is going to be right for a Final Destination 6.
They’ve got the perfect writers for it, Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, the guys
who did Saw 4-7.
What makes Saw such an awesome franchise is that the later sequels don’t suck that much
for the most part and they even honor the continuity.
It feels right for these guys to give that same treatment to the other big 2000s horror
series.
Jeffrey Reddick has insisted that the sixth is not a reboot, but curiously mentions another
world.
The statement seems to contradict itself.
I’ve explored that the movie might look like if we take his words literally, but about
if the we them figuratively.
Operating in the world of first responders, EMT, firemen and police affords an interesting
opportunity, these are all government workers that might show up the scene of a disaster
and are likely to have interactions with a medical examiner.
Could we see the return of William Bludworth?
When I made the Horror History episode on Bludworth, I theorized that he could have
been an escapee of Death’s design.
This character is shrouded in mystery, and I always thought it would be cool to explore
his past and learn how he came to be so knowledgeable about how death operates.
I think it would definitely be interesting to see a prequel, where a young Bludworth
sees the horrors of how his choices affect people’s lives on the front line, and transitions
to the role of medical examiner so that he can become an expert on death, namely how
to avoid it.
If you want to hear more about my theory, click that video on the left and if you love
horror, remember to subscribe to CZsWorld for new horrors every week, ring the deathbell
and select all notifications and I’ll see you in the next one.
Assuming we both survive.