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Final Destination (series)
The Final Destination series is a series of fictional horror films created by James Wong and Glen Morgan, based on an unused X-Files script and characters created by Jeffrey Reddick. The films, distributed by New Line Cinema, mainly center on the themes of determinism, predestination, and precognition, in relation to death (i.e. how to avoid, foresee, or control it), as well as a related series of books (published by Black Flame) and comics (published by Zenescope Entertainment Inc). Visually, they center around killing people in a variety of elaborate and gory ways. Many of such death scenarios also resemble Rube Goldberg machines, with varying complexities and convolutedness.
Basic story
Premise
The premise to both the film and book series about death is essentially the same: A group of people are gathered together at a venue, when suddenly a member of the group has a premonition of a disaster that will kill all of the people present. Horrified and motivated by the vision of impending doom, the person with the premonition then tries to prevent the incident by alerting the others. The other members have doubts of the incredible claims but the visionary is persistent, fracturing the group in hostile skeptics, dubious believers, or those that had no choice but to accompany the visionary. Soon afterwards, disaster strikes as foreseen, proving to the survivors that the visionary was right, and their opinions change drastically.
Over the next few days, weeks or months, the same survivors begin to die in a series of horrific accidents and/or incredible circumstances until the same visionary notices a pattern and concludes that, while surviving the initial disaster, they are still destined to die shortly. The visionary usually teams up with another fellow survivor of the opposite sex, and they are determined to once again cheat death; then the same group devises various plans to survive that usually fail until the protagonist visionary finds a solution to their fate, having salvaged two or three of the others. At the end however, there is one fantastic event that kills most or all of the survivors.
Cheating Death
A recurring theme in each Final Destination film is the concept of truly defeating Death. Constant intervention proves to merely restart the list from the beginning. Once the list of Death's Design runs through, it returns to the beginning.
Final Destination
Final Destination is a 2000 supernatural thriller, about a group of teenagers who cheat death by avoiding a plane crash when one of them, Alex, has a premonition of their deaths. Soon after their escape, they begin dying one-by-one in mysterious freak accidents. The script was originally written by Jeffrey Reddick as a spec script for the X-Files. (Director James Wong worked as a writer, producer and director on that series.) The story shares similarities with an episode of The Twilight Zone titled "Twenty-Two". The film is distributed by New Line Cinema. The DVD was released on September 26, 2000. The film was the first in the Final Destination series, which has since produced three sequels and a series of books.
Final Destination takes place on Long Island. Locations such as Jones Beach and John F. Kennedy International Airport are shown. Nassau County is mentioned. However, Vancouver International Airport stood in for JFK.
Plot
Alex Browning (played by Devon Sawa) is going on a trip to Paris with his fellow peers on a school trip. However, before take-off Alex has a premonition that the flight he’s on explodes in mid-air. Alex then wakes up, revealing the events to be just a dream. However, as things from the dream begin to repeat themselves in reality, Alex panics and attempts to stop the flight. The resulting commotion leads to a handful of passengers being left behind. As they witness the accident from the gate, they realize that what Alex witnessed wasn’t just a dream. Soon after the survivors begin dying in chain of bizarre accidents, in the same order they would have died on the plane.
Characters
Alexander Chance "Alex" Browning (played by Devon Sawa): Alex is a student and the main character. He has the premonition that Flight 180 will explode, leading to a handful of passengers missing the flight.
Terry Chaney (played by Amanda Detmer): Terry is Carter's girlfriend.
William "Billy" Hitchcock (played by Sean William Scott): The jester of the group.
Carter Horton (played by Kerr Smith): Carter is an athlete who deeply resents Alex.
Ms. Valerie Lewton (played by Kristen Cloke): Ms. Lewton is one of the teachers supervising the trip to Paris. She volunteers to stay behind with the students forced off Flight 180.
Clear Rivers (played by Ali Larter): Clear is a fellow classmate of Alex's.
Tod Waggner (played by Chad Donella): Alex's best friend.
Other characters
William Bludworth: William Bludworth is a man who knows about death more than anyone else. He tells Alex and Clear the secret of death. He is portrayed by Tony Todd.
Agent Schreck: Agent Schreck is an FBI agent who thinks it Alex's fault that Flight 180 exploded. He is portrayed by Roger Guenveur Smith.
Agent Weine: Agent Weine is an FBI agent who thinks it Alex's fault that Flight 180 exploded. He is portrayed by Daniel Roebuck.
Rating
Final Destination received an R rating in the United States for violence and terror, and for language. In the United Kingdom, it received a 15 rating. In Ireland, it received an 18 for violence, horror, and language.
Final Destination Trailer
Final Destination 2
Final Destination 2 is a 2003 supernatural thriller, and sequel to the 2000 hit Final Destination. It was directed by David R. Ellis and stars A. J. Cook as Kimberly Corman and Ali Larter as Clear Rivers. The film is set in White Plains in 2001, a year after the events of the previous movie and has only two returning characters; Clear Rivers and the mortician William Bludworth. The movie grossed $16,017,141 on its opening weekend in the US, a significant portion of the high it grossed overall. It was a minor hit, debuting in its first week at #2 and falling from then onwards. It is succeeded by Final Destination 3.
Plot
While going on vacation Kimberly Corman (played by A. J. Cook) experiences a vision of a mass pile-up on the highway. She blocks the entrance ramp to the highway so that motorists who would have otherwise died were spared. But soon these survivors start dying too.
Cast
Kimberly Corman (played by A.J. Cook): The female lead, and also the character who's vision leads to several other motorists avoiding the accident on Route 23.
Officer Thomas Burke (played by Michael Landes): A New York State trooper and lead male character.
Eugene Dix (played by TC Carson): A motorcyclist who is initially skeptical of Death's Design, but becomes convinced after witnessing the predicted death of a fellow survivor.
Clear Rivers (played by Ali Larter): The lone survivor of Flight 180 (from the first film of the series), who uses her experiences to guide the new group of survivors.
Rory Peters (played by Jonathan Cherry): A drug addict, and the film's comic relief.
Kat Jennings (played by Keegan Connor Tracy): A very selfish and direct woman who tends to complain often.
Nora Carpenter (played by Lynda Boyd): Tim's mother, and oldest of the survivors.
Timothy "Tim" Carpenter (played by James Kirk): Tim is 15, and youngest of the survivors.
Evan Lewis (played by David Paetkau): Is a young man who has recently won the lottery for $250,000.
Final Destination 2 Trailer
Final Destination 3
Final Destination 3 is a 2006 supernatural thriller, and the third film in the Final Destination series. Distributed by New Line Cinema, the film was directed and written by James Wong, who co-wrote and directed the original, and was produced by Craig Perry. The film was originally scheduled for release date on February 24, 2006, however the date was changed to two weeks earlier, February 10.
Plot
The movie opens with Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a soon-to-be high school graduate from McKinley High, visiting a theme park and photographing her friends. The group boards the roller coaster, and Wendy has a premonition that the coaster will crash, demands to be let off, and the attendant releases all the seats in the rear car. When the coaster leaves the station, it crashes, as predicted, taking her boyfriend and best friend in the front cart with it. Soon Wendy realizes that the people who survived are now dying in the order in which they sat on the roller coaster and tried to prevent further deaths.
Characters
Wendy Christensen: The protagonist, her friends tease her that she is too much of a worrier and a control freak. After having a premonition of the coaster's derailment, she saves several of her classmates, only to have them die one by one in even more gruesome ways. She is portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Kevin Fischer: Kevin is the supporting lead character. He was dating Wendy's friend before the crash and bands together with Wendy to help save the rest of survivors. He is portrayed by Ryan Merriman.
Ian McKinley: Artsy and moody, Ian is sarcastic, smart, and cynical. He is the school's Goth. Erin is his girlfriend, and they sat together on the roller-coaster. He is portrayed by Kris Lemche.
Erin Ulmer: Erin is also a Goth, equally artsy and cynical. Ian is her boyfriend, and they sat together on the coaster. She is portrayed by Alexz Johnson.
Julie Christensen: Julie is Wendy's sassy younger sister. She is portrayed by Amanda Crew.
Lewis Romero: Lewis is tough, enthusiastic, and the school's athlete. He was sitting alone on the coaster. He is portrayed by Texas Battle.
Frankie Cheeks: Frankie Cheeks, a clown, failure and pervert, is a graduate that still goes to high school events to videotape and hit on girls. He gets on the roller-coaster behind Ashley and Ashlyn. He is portrayed by Sam Easton.
Ashlyn Halperin: Ashlyn is a pretty brunette, popular, and shallow cheerleader. She was sitting next to Ashley on the roller-coaster. She is portrayed by Crystal Lowe.
Ashley Freund: Ashley, the blonde half of the duo is head cheerleader. She was sitting next to Ashlyn on the roller-coaster. She is portrayed by Chelan Simmons.
Rating
Final Destination 3 was rated R by the MPAA for strong horror violence/gore, language, and some nudity. It received a 15 certificate for the same reasons in the United Kingdom. In Germany, it received an 18 certificate, in contrast to the 16 received by the first two installments, due to the increased relative intensity of violence and gore.
Response
Final Destination 3 was successful both on film and DVD. The film was released in the United States on February 10, 2006, and opened at #2, showing across 2,880 screens with an opening weekend of $19 million U.S. dollars averaging to a little under $6,940 per theater. As of April 16, 2006, FD3 had made $54,098,051 stateside, though the movie continued to screen across the country for another seven weeks after domestic tallies closed. The film grossed even more in foreign markets, raking in over $59 million as of Early August. Worldwide recorded gross has now reached approx. $113,270,000 so far, outperforming both the original and first sequel in the series. As of late October 2006, Japan gross tallies have yet to be calculated. The DVD rentals reached nearly $45 million, making FD3 the longest running video in the top 50 chart of October 29 (www.boxofficemojo.com) and the 4th best grosser of the 50 films on the list.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film was rated at 46%. The original two films received equally poor scores. Besides deriding the film for the high level of violence and the reference to the attacks on the World Trade Center in September 2001, a common complaint directed at the film was that it failed to offer anything new. The BBC awarded a rare 1 star out of 5, after awarding the first installment four stars and the second three.
DVD release
The DVD has a unique feature called "Choose Their Fate". As the movie plays, menus pop up from time to time asking the viewer to make choices for the characters which affect the outcome of the plot. Possibilities include whether to call heads or tails during a coin flip (which prevents the characters from ever boarding the rollercoaster) and what temperature to turn the thermostat to in the tanning beds (which changes the cause of one of the deaths). One option allows the viewer to 'read' a newspaper detailing the deaths of Kimberly and Officer Burke from Final Destination 2.
Final Destination 3-D
Originally, Final Destination 3 was to be in 3-D because it would be the third in the franchise.[citation needed] When the movie was being filmed it was deemed too complicated and expensive, so the movie eventually was shot as usual. Although this idea was dropped for this film in the series ,the fourth installment, Final Destination 4, will be in 3-D, and is scheduled for theatrical release on August 21, 2009.
Final Destination 3 Trailer
Final Destination: Death Trip 3D
Final Destination 4 is the upcoming installment in the Final Destination supernatural thriller franchise. The film will be written and directed by Final Destination 2's Eric Bress and David R. Ellis, respectively, and will be shot in HD 3-D. The film will be released on August 21, 2009 in the United States and on October 1, 2009 in Australia.
Plot
On what should have been a "typical day at the races" for McKinley Speedway, Nick O'Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a grisly premonition of a race car fatally crashing and sending debris into the stands, gruesomely killing his friends, and causing an overhang to collapse on him. He awakens, not being able to shake the feeling of how real his vision appeared, he panics, and just in time, persuades the group of teenagers to leave the bleachers. Immediately afterward objects begin to fly into the public as his frightening dream turns into a reality. Unfortunately for Nick, along with his friends Lori Milligan (Shantel VanSanten) and Janet Cunningham (Haley Webb), this is only the beginning. As the survivors begin to die one-by-one in even more terrifying ways than they had originally, Nick must figure out how to cheat Death once and for all before, he too, reaches his final destination.
Cast
Bobby Campo as Nick O'Bannon
Shantel VanSanten as Lori Milligan
Haley Webb as Janet Cunningham
Nick Zano as Hunt Wynorski
Krista Allen as Ally Rozcos
Andrew Fiscella
Jessica Ritchie as Cassie
Phil Austin as Edward
Billy Slaughter as Frankie
Justin Welborn as "The Racist"
Lara Grice as "The Racist's Wife"
Richard T. Jones as "The Widow"/"Security Guard"
Mykelti Williamson
Trailer
The teaser trailer is scheduled to be shown before My Bloody Valentine with the full trailer to be shown before Friday the 13th
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