David Ellis Is On Final Destination 4 Featuring complex deaths - in 3D!!! Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Memo to horror film-makers: if you’re building a franchise, never, ever use the word ‘final’ in the title. You’ll only make yourselves look like fools. To wit: Friday The 13th – The Final Chapter, which turned out to be anything but (Jason Voorhees appeared in seven more movies after that, not counting the upcoming remake). Or how about Freddy’s Dead – The Final Nightmare? OK, so there was only one more Nightmare On Elm Street after that, but still… misnomer city.
And then there’s the Final Destination series, which definitively proved to be anything but final when the first sequel went into production. That was directed by David R. Ellis, who went on to make guilty B movie pleasures Cellular and – yes, dammit! – Snakes On A Plane, and today Ellis signed on to direct Final Destination 4.
Little is known about this instalment of the New Line franchise, but we’re guessing that it will involve a bunch of teenagers escaping a freakish and well-choreographed accident, and then being picked off one by one by a vengeful Death, using a series of freakish and well-choreographed accidents as his weapon of choice.
Oh, and it will be shot in 3D, so that freakish, well-choreographed mayhem will be coming atcha, like Cleopatra.
Empire’s actually glad to see Ellis returning to the FD franchise. Final Destination 2 may be the best of the series – it certainly has the most inventive deaths (the airbag gag is still a killer), and the opening freeway pile-up was a mini-masterpiece of freakish and well-choreographed mayhem. It also had its tongue wedged firmly into its cheek throughout, with more red herrings than an Agatha Christie convention.
And after the witless abomination that was Final Destination 3, with its cardboard characters and unimaginative death sequences, the series needs a boost if it’s going to survive. (Mind you, FD creators Glen Morgan and James Wong were responsible for part three, so maybe it’s never wise to come back...)
As ever, more news as we get it – unless we’re offed horribly in a freakish and well-choreographed accident.
This sounds fun.
I haven't seen the other two films, but Final Destination 2 was a great popcorn movie: exciting, funny, and inventive. (And the same goes for the under-rated Snakes On a Plane.)
Also, the 3-D aspect could be cool if done right. ... Read More
im really annoyed.FD 1, 2 and 3 were good films. Well, the third installment in my opinion was JUST acceptable. But keeping them as a trilogy would be much better for the franchise. its going to be one of those film franchises where people say...oh yeah i know Final Destination...which one of the 10 of them was the original. boooooring! please dont squeeze the life out of something that use to be so fresh! ... Read More
Morg1138 tri means three dick head, not trilogy. logy is as in anthology, as in a series so quiet time for you now!
As for this? Cool, two was great and while three was terrible, this one will hopefully be a return to form. if the 3D is as good as beowulf then i'm all for it. ... Read More
I only watch the third film again the other night. I quite like it. Not watch the first two for sometime.
Not Surprise that a fourth one is being made, it seems the norm for horror films to keep doing new ones ... Read More
FD3 was shonky indeed. This series has become an Omen for the 21st century in 'guess the death' terms.
I'd like to see a prequel with the Tony Todd character given more of a role. ... Read More
as we say in Scotland. it was a good concept, but three sequels is pushing it, from plane disaster to major car smash to, erm, a fucking ROLLERCOASTER??? What next, disaster strikes a SCHOOL TRIP TO THE ZOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!? Hang on, that might actually work. ... Read More
Im a big FD fan, I myself have the thrillology set, all cracking films. However, will this fourth one bring anything new to the series. Apart from the obvious inventive death sequences. What, if anything can be brought in? What is the link between 180 appearing in every film? What is Tony Todds link with it all? Can death finally be beating in this one? Or will they just continue making them up until FD10 and then decide to go back to basics and come out with a FD: The beg... Read More
Never understood the word "Quadrilogy". Quad=4 Trilogy=3. Does that mean we will have 4 trilogies? They used this with Aliens and Die Hard boxsets.
known from the title of the boxset of Aliens-series films, "Alien Quadrilogy." An awkward mix of Greek and Latin, seen as incorrect by some linguists"sp;
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=quadrilogyp; ... Read More
