Apart from offering plenty of chilling entertainment, the Final Destination series (set to air this month on SYFY) has long occupied a humorous corner in popular culture with its unique spin on death-themed memes.
A quick term for questionable scenarios that emit an unsettling sense of high danger, using “Final Destination” as a reference is generally understood to symbolize any strange chain of events that ominously unfolds, often with a touch of humor, and could potentially lead to catastrophic outcomes.
Since the start of the series with its first movie in 2000 (Final Destination), there’s always been an unsettling, disorienting feeling about the franchise’s eerie concept. Even when you feel a premonition that it’s approaching, it might not be clear exactly how, but if death is pursuing you, rest assured, it will inevitably discover a crafty, ingenious method to claim you.
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As a gamer, I’d say: Trim down the gruesome elements and its cinematic length, and any one of the chilling death sequences in ‘Final Destination’ could easily fit as a compact, suspenseful 30-minute episode within the realm of ‘The Twilight Zone’. Alternatively, it could delve deeper into the supernatural, extending to an hour-long episode akin to ‘The X-Files’. Interestingly enough, the original ‘Final Destination’ movie was actually conceived with a dash of ‘The X-Files” outlandish paranormal DNA.
In an interview with Variety this year for the 25th anniversary of the Final Destination franchise, original writer Jeffrey Reddick and director James Wong revealed some intriguing connections between the series and The X-Files. Notably, Wong was a writer and executive producer on The X-Files, as was Glen Morgan (co-producer and writer of Final Destination). Before directing the first movie in the Final Destination series, Wong recognized that the concept had an appealing element of fate twist.
Meanwhile, Reddick devised the initial plot for “Final Destination,” not with the intention of turning it into a complete movie, but rather as a speculative script to submit to his beloved show, “The X-Files.” Named “Flight 180” and inspired by an actual news article he had read about a woman who chose not to board a plane that later crashed, this script laid the groundwork for the opening sequence that became iconic in the first “Final Destination” movie.
In Reddick’s own words, when he read the article, a thought popped into his mind: “What if she managed to outsmart death, and what would happen if death came after her anyway?” He then penned this concept as a screenplay for The X-Files. It was quite coincidental that the movie eventually landed in the hands of James Wong and Glen Morgan, two of Reddick’s all-time favorite writers.
After Chris Bender, the producer of “The X-Files,” had gone through Reddick’s treatment, he recommended that Reddick develop it not as a science fiction TV episode, but as a self-contained feature film instead. According to Wong in his conversation with Variety, this approach offered a wider range of narrative possibilities than simply presenting a reluctant character’s ominous premonition to Fox Mulder and Dana Scully on the show.
In the spirit of an “X-Files” episode, Wong suggests focusing on Mulder and Scully’s responses to a string of mysterious deaths, with a focus on their survival. However, if we’re talking about a movie, the priority shifts towards creating something visually stunning, immersive, and full of unexpected twists – something that can be achieved with the resources a movie offers, which are often unattainable in a TV show due to time constraints.
It’s possible to find the “Final Destination” series, which includes the first three movies (two of them helmed by Wong), currently airing on SYFY. You can check out the schedule by clicking here!
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2025-06-03 22:01