Final Destination Bloodlines directors Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky hopped on the Zoom call to finish all Zoom calls to try to direct the newest film in the horror franchise – which got them the gig after which some.
“Many individuals know that directors usually should audition identical to actors do to get employed on larger movies like this,” Lipovsky tells GamesRadar+. “And also you undergo many various rounds of callbacks, and we got to the ultimate Zoom the place there was all the huge head honcho vital folks. And it was on Zoom, so we thought, you recognize what? It may very well be actually enjoyable to present them the expertise of what it is like to look at a Final Destination film as a result of FD films have a very distinctive tone.”
Bloodlines follows Stefani (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) a school scholar who realizes she has the reward of premonition, which she inherited from her grandmother Iris, however when she goes dwelling to look into her household historical past – she out of the blue finds herself in a series of freak deaths involving her members of the family.
“They’re each horrifying and graphic, however they’re additionally enjoyable and shocking. And also you’re sort of masking your eyes, but in addition smiling at the similar time,” Lipovsky continues. “And it is actually troublesome whenever you’re pitching a film to pitch what it is gonna really feel like to look at the film, as a result of you may say, ‘it is gonna be shocking, and it is gonna be gory, and it is gonna be enjoyable.’ However to truly give them that expertise was form of our aim. Whereas pitching, they have been watching us do the finish of our pitch – and the background behind us, there was a fire that began to gentle the wall on hearth, at which level all of them began pointing, pondering it was actual.”
“We got up, and Adam began placing the hearth out with a hearth extinguisher. I turned on this big ceiling fan, yelling if I ought to call 911. After which we put out the hearth, and so they all began clapping, realizing that it was sort of a joke. After which, as we sat down apologizing and attempting to get again into our pitch, the ceiling fan began to spark and fall off the ceiling.
“I jumped out of the approach, and it chopped Adam’s head off. Blood exploded throughout the place, and his decapitated physique fell out. And I got here again in to sort of, you recognize, get the pitch again on observe. We did it with these sort of loopy alternative ways of utilizing Zoom know-how to each make it dwell and prerecorded in a approach that was seamless from their perspective, and so they fairly loved it.”
Final Destination, written by Jeffrey Reddick and directed by James Wong, hit theaters in 2000, and grossed $112 million towards a price range of simply $23 million. A sequel, Final Destination 2, was launched in 2003, adopted by Final Destination 3 in 2006 – which creator Reddick didn’t wish to be aside of.
The franchise would then go into completely different palms, with David R. Ellis (Snakes on a Aircraft) directing from a screenplay by Eric Bess (The Butterfly Impact). The Final Destination was launched in 2009, and Final Destination 5 (directed by Steven Quale) and written by Arrival scribe Eric Heisserer) in 2011 – which was, at the time, meant to be the ultimate film in the franchise.
In 2019, New Line Cinema introduced that a brand new Final Destination was in the works, initially with Noticed franchise writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan. By 2022, Andor author Lori Evans Taylor had written the script with Man Busick based mostly on a narrative they’d developed with Jon Watts. Stein and Lipovsky had their audition with Warner Bros later that 12 months – and the relaxation is historical past.
Final Destination Bloodlines hits theaters on Could 16. For extra, try our record of the most enjoyable upcoming films in 2025 and past.
