A newFinal Destinationmovie is in the works after the massive success of the franchise’s sixth installment,Final Destination: Bloodlines. Released on May 16, the latest installment became the best-reviewed and highest-grossing in the franchise, having grossed over $286 million worldwide and received strong reviews from critics and audience alike.
Now, New Line Cinemas has hired the movie’s co-writer,Lori Evans Taylor, to work on the script for the next installment,as first reported byThe Hollywood Reporter. The franchise producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor are returning to produce, along with Jon Watts, Dianne McGunigle, and Toby Emmerich. Warren Zide, who served as an EP onBloodlines,will return to executive produce.
What This Means For The Final Destination Franchise
Final Destination 7is officially in developmentwithkey players fromBloodlines' creative team returning. It’s unclear at this point who will helm the project and what the movie will be about, but the sixth installment, directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein with a script Taylor co-wrote with Guy Busick, featured a new ensemble of characters that all became victims of Death’s plan.
Lipovsky and Stein previously talked about their thoughts on potentially returning to direct anotherFinal Destination. While they stressed that they’d given everything they had creatively toBloodlines,the co-directors also teased that they would return if there was a demand for it, and they happened to have more ideas.
The sixth installment sees the return of Tony Todd’s William Bludworth and offers the character an emotional sendoff. While the seventh installment won’t feature Bludworth, franchise producer Perry has teased the potential return ofAJ Cook’s sole survivor Kimberlyin future films.
Our Take On Final Destination 7
Final Destination: Bloodlinesapproaches the franchise’s core concept differently in comparison to other entries. Instead of exploring the scenario where a group of people survived a deadly fate, the sixth installment investigates the generation-spanning after-effects when a premonition prevented a catastrophe from happening in the first place, which potentially opens new opportunities for the franchise.
It’s revealed that the franchise’s recurring characterWilliam Bludworth is a survivor of the incidentand has spent his entire life running away from death. While the latest entry answered some of the biggest burning questions in theFinal Destinationfranchise, it also left a few stones unturned. Rehiring Taylor indicates thatFinal Destination 7will likely followBloodlines' thread to maintain consistencyinstead of doing a hard pivot to an entirely different idea.
Final Destination Bloodlines
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Final Destination Bloodlines follows college student Stefanie, who is tormented by a violent recurring nightmare. She returns home to seek out the individual who might disrupt the cycle and prevent her family from facing their ominous fate.
