Final Destination will be back with a seventh film. Following the success of the latest film Final Destination: Bloodlines, which minted $ 286 million globally, its co-writer Lori Evans Taylor is returning to script the new film for New Line. Further details on the cast and story are yet to be announced.
Final Destination: Bloodlines, which was released in May this year, came 14 years after the fifth instalment. The latest film served as a prequel to all the previous films and as sequel to Final Destination 5. It went on to become the highest-grossing installment in the franchise.
Taylor co-wrote the screenplay for Bloodlines with Gary Busick. It was directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein from a story by Taylor, Busick, and Jon Watts. Taylor is also known for scripting Cellar Door (2024) and directing Bed Rest (2022). She recently wrote the screenplay for the upcoming adaptation of Carla Norton’s The Edge of Normal, which will be directed by Carlota Pereda and star Chloë Grace Moretz. Additionally, she adapted I Am Still Alive for Universal, with Ben Affleck set to produce and play the lead role.
Craig Perry, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Jon Watts, Dianne McGunigle and Toby Emmerich are also returning to back the Warner Bros. and New Line film. Warren Zide serves as the executive producer.
The Final Destination franchise revolves around a protagonist who gets a premonition about an impending disaster that kills everyone in the place including themselves. Once they save a group of friends, the lead character realises that death never likes to be cheated and would follow the people who were supposed to die. The latest film followed Kaitlyn Santa Juana as Stefani, a college student who began experiencing visions passed down from her dying grandmother—visions tied to a near-catastrophic skyscraper collapse in 1969. As her grandmother had warned, Death was now targeting their family.
