Afterwards, the survivors begin to die one by one through a series of bizarre accidents, and Alex attempts to find a way to "cheat" Death's plan before it is too late. When the events from his vision begin to repeat themselves in reality, he panics, and a fight breaks out, which leads to several passengers being left behind, including Clear Rivers ( Ali Larter), Carter Horton ( Kerr Smith), Billy Hitchcock ( Seann William Scott), Valerie Lewton ( Kristen Cloke), Terry Chaney ( Amanda Detmer), and Tod Waggner ( Chad Donella), who witness the plane explode moments later.
Before take-off, Alex has a premonition that the plane will explode in mid-air, killing everyone on board. 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. Glen Morgan, James Wong, Craig Perry and Warren ZideĬraig Perry, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Jon Watts and Dianne McGunigle Mackye Gruber & Eric Bress and Jeffrey Reddick Glen Morgan & James Wong and Jeffrey Reddick
Jeffrey Reddick has sole story credit and shares screenplay credit with James Wong and Glen Morgan. After developing the feature idea, New Line Cinema hired Reddick to write a screenplay James Wong and Glen Morgan were later brought on board to write the shooting 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 previously escaped their fated demise. After avoiding their foretold deaths, the survivors are killed one by one (usually in the order they died in the premonition disaster) in bizarre accidents caused by an unseen force (said to be Death itself seeking to kill them due to the disruption of its plans for their deaths) by 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 a major disaster 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. Final Destination is an American horror franchise that includes five films, two comic books, and nine novels.