Final Destination creator Jeffrey Reddick says the franchise’s sixth film is ready to go as soon as the actors’ strike ends.
Speaking with Collider, Reddick offered an update on the upcoming Final Destination 6. “There is a sixth one that’s planned the minute, again, the AMPTP comes back to the table, that movie is ready to go,” he said. “It’s just nice as a genre fan to have something created that has become a part of the public zeitgeist. Again, I couldn’t have asked for more.”
The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) strike began on July 14, 2023. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has also been on strike since May 2, 2023, all done in an effort for better streaming residuals, protection against A.I., and more.
Final Destination 6 will be “well worth the wait”
In Jan. 2022, news broke that Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts was producing a sixth Final Destination movie that would premiere on Max. Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein boarded the project as directors in Sept. 2022, with the script coming from Watts, Lori Evans Taylor, and Guy Busick.
“[Producer Craig Perry] will tell me stuff, and I can’t repeat it obviously because I’m very good at that because I know I don’t wanna spoil anything, but every time that I’ve heard anything that they’re doing, or any scene that they’re doing or planning, it just makes me smile,” Reddick added. “The fans are gonna be – it’s gonna be well worth the wait.”
The first Final Destination movie, based on an unproduced script Reddick originally wrote for the X-Files, released in 2000. The original film centers on a small group of people who manage to narrowly avoid dying in a plane crash. However, they’re then killed off in a series of bizarre accidents caused by a manifested version of Death itself.
Several sequels followed, including 2003’s Final Destination 2, 2006’s Final Destination 3, 2009’s The Final Destination, and 2011’s Final Destination 5.
