The “Final Destination” films are all about killing off its characters, even its leads, as the concept and unseen force of death is the franchise’s true star.
The first film saw its leads living on with Devon Sawa’s Alex and Ali Larter’s Clear making it to the end and surviving. That changed with the second film, where it’s revealed Alex died off-screen between entries whilst an institutionalised Clear gets incinerated.
During a recent interview with Collider to promote “Til Death Do Us Part,” “Final Destination” franchise producer Jeffrey Reddick confirms that he had always planned to kill Clear but originally wanted to keep Alex alive.
Then scheduling issues and other things meant Sawa didn’t return to the role, leading to him being killed off. Reddick says:
“I wanted to bring both Alex and Clear back. There were some issues with scheduling and stuff with getting Devon Sawa back, and I got annoyed how they just killed him off with a brick, which I thought was a big f— you. That’s really my only complaint with Final Destination 2.
If I had them both back, I had always planned on killing Clear, but I wanted to keep Alex alive. I had a cool twist at the end where it still was, you know, she has a life that saves her life, but then death gets her once she has the kid and Alex is still kind of the torch-bearer.
That was my original take, but with the scheduling stuff, we ended up with no Alex. And I’m like, ‘Ah, if I’d known we weren’t gonna bring Alex back, I would have not have killed Clear,’ because I love bringing original people back, but I don’t like killing them.”
Various deleted scenes from the first film tie into this other ending, including one in which Clear gets a positive pregnancy test. A “Final Destination 6” is on the way and expected to begin production once the strikes are over.
