The Final Destination franchise will be back in theaters soon enough, as a planned reboot is in the works at New Line. Ahead of the upcoming remake, let’s take a moment to revisit the original film from 2000 with these killer facts you may not know…
1It’s partially inspired by true events
The concept of the Final Destination movies is a simple one, with a formula repeated in each of the subsequent sequels. All of the films begin with someone having a vivid premonition of a deadly tragedy moments before it actually happens. The original movie’s story has a group of teens escaping from a doomed airliner just minutes before it explodes in the air, exactly as it had in a premonition.
Nowhere in the movie’s marketing does it advertise itself as being based on true events. However, as it turns out, a true story did partially inspire the plot. In a 2011 interview, writer Jeffrey Reddick revealed he came up with the concept while reading the news. “I was actually flying home to Kentucky and I read this story about a woman who was on vacation in Hawaii and her mom called her and said ‘Don’t take the flight tomorrow, I have a really bad feeling about it,'” Reddick explains. “She switched flights and the plane that she would have been on crashed. I thought, that’s creepy… what if she was supposed to die on that flight?”
While the movie may have been inspired by a true story, it wasn’t based on the real-life TWA Flight 800 tragedy in 1996, as many reviewers had purported at the time. In a later interview, Reddick shut down the misconception that the film was based on this particular incident, stressing that the story was originally written in 1994. However, footage from TWA Flight 800 crash was shown in the movie, which was likely how the rumor got started.
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[…] At the time, Final Destination was a breath of recent air within the horror film style. There was no slasher or ghost ingredient. Instead the killer was Death itself, stalking and taking the lives of those that managed to evade it the primary time round. The starting of the film reveals a airplane crash that occurs mid-air after the principle character convinces his buddies to disembark it. During the making of the film the choice was made to make use of the music “Rocky Mountain High” by John Denver and play it earlier than a number of the characters’ deaths. Eerily, John Denver himself died in a airplane crash in 1997 and his stays may solely be recognized by the use of his fingerprints. His demise is reminiscent not solely of the airplane crash within the film, but in addition the gruesomeness of the graphic dying scenes.[1] […]
[…] Na época, Final Destination era uma lufada de ar fresco no gênero de filmes de terror. Não havia elemento slasher ou fantasma. Em vez disso, o assassino era a própria morte, perseguindo e tirando a vida daqueles que conseguiram fugir da primeira vez. O início do filme mostra um acidente de avião que acontece no ar depois que o personagem principal convence seus amigos a desembarcar. Durante a realização do filme, foi tomada a decisão de usar a música "Rocky Mountain High", de John Denver, e tocá-la antes da morte de alguns dos personagens. Estranhamente, o próprio John Denver morreu em um acidente de avião em 1997 e seus restos mortais só puderam ser identificados por meio de suas impressões digitais. Sua morte é uma reminiscência não apenas da queda de avião no filme, mas também da horribilidade das cenas de morte gráficas.(1) […]
[…] Na época, Final Destination era uma lufada de ar fresco no gênero de filmes de terror. Não havia nenhum elemento assassino ou fantasma. Em vez disso, o assassino era a própria Morte, perseguindo e tirando a vida daqueles que conseguiram evitá-la da primeira vez. O início do filme mostra um acidente de avião que acontece no ar depois que o personagem principal convence seus amigos a desembarcar. Durante a produção do filme, foi tomada a decisão de usar a música “Rocky Mountain High” de John Denver e tocá-la antes da morte de alguns personagens. Estranhamente, o próprio John Denver morreu em um acidente de avião em 1997 e seus restos mortais só puderam ser identificados por meio de suas impressões digitais. Sua morte é uma reminiscência não apenas da queda do avião no filme, mas também da horrível cena de morte.[1] […]