In the original Final Destination, high school student Alex Browning ( Devon Sawa) boards Volée Airlines Flight 180 with his classmates for a field trip to Paris. It was based on the fateful flight TWA 800, specifically, the 16 students and 5 adults of the Montoursville HS. After reading his spec script, New Line Cinema hired Reddick to write the screenplay James Wong and Glen Morgan were later brought on board to help with the script, making alterations to comply with their standards. Originally having written the script as an episode of The X Files, Reddick decided to turn the script into a feature-length film at the behest of one of his New Line Cinema colleagues. The woman switched flights and the plane she was originally supposed to take crashed. A one-shot comic book titled Final Destination: Sacrifice was released alongside select DVDs of Final Destination 3 in 2006, and a comic book series titled Final Destination: Spring Break was published by Zenescope Entertainment in 2007.įinal Destination was written by Jeffrey Reddick after having 'read a story about a woman who was on vacation and her mom called her and said, 'Don't take the flight tomorrow, I have a really bad feeling about it.''. In addition to the films, a novel series, which includes the novelizations of the first three films, was published throughout 20 by Black Flame.

The series is noteworthy among other horror films for its use of an antagonist that is not a stereotypical slasher or other physical being, but Death manifested, subtly manipulating circumstances in the environment with a design on claiming anyone who escapes their fated demise. After avoiding their foretold deaths, the survivors are killed one by one in bizarre accidents caused by an unseen force creating complicated chains of cause and effect, resembling Rube Goldberg machines, and then read omens sent by another unseen entity in order to again avert their deaths. All of its five films are set around a small group of people who escape impending death after one individual (the protagonist) sees a sudden premonition and warns them about the mass-casualty accident that is about to happen. It is based on an unproduced spec script by Jeffrey Reddick, originally written for The X-Files television series, and was distributed by New Line Cinema.

Entertainment)įinal Destination is an American horror franchise consisting of five films, two comic books, and nine novels.

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