Final Destination: Bloodlines co-director Zach Lipovsky has explained how the upcoming film’s premonition sequence will differ from others in the franchise.
Bloodlines, which will be the first entry in the popular horror franchise since 2011’s Final Destination 5, follows a college student named Stefanie who tries to find a way to end the cycle of death.
Like the previous five Final Destination movies, the new instalment will open with a chilling premonition of death and chaos.
However, Lipovsky has revealed that this premonition will be for a deadly chain of events that happened years prior.
“For this film, the first premonition takes place in 1969,” the filmmaker, who is co-directing Bloodlines alongside Adam Stein, explained in the new issue of SFX magazine.
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“There are lots of deaths during the premonition, which is what normally happens in the opening sequence of a Final Destination movie, but we then come out of the eye of a different person in the modern day.
“That’s new. For a lot of fans, I think that’s going to immediately throw them for a loop. It’s going to make them lean forward to try and figure out what’s going on.”
Bloodlines is set to be the longest entry in the franchise, clocking in at 109 minutes and 40 seconds.
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The cast features Stargirl‘s Brec Bassinger, Chucky‘s Teo Briones, Dear Evan Hansen‘s Kaitlyn Santa Juana, The 100‘s Richard Harmon, Gotham Knights’ Anna Lore, and Star Wars’ Max Lloyd-Jones and Rya Kihlstedt.
Ahead of the film’s release next month, the first five Final Destination movies were added to Prime Video. All movies apart from fourth film are also streaming on Netflix.
Final Destination: Bloodlines releases on 14 May in the UK and 16 May in the US.
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