Jeffrey Reddick, the creator of the “Final Destination” franchise, says the sixth film is ready to go and work on it will get underway as soon as the actor’s strike ends.
Last year came word that “Freaks” directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein had been set to direct a sixth film in the darkly comedic supernatural thriller franchise at New Line Cinema.
“Spider-Man: Homecoming” director Jon Watts is producing and penned a treatment for the film which is being dubbed a relaunch of the franchise. “Scream” and “Ready or Not” scribes Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor penned the script.
Original franchise producer Craig Perry, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, and “Atlanta” producer Dianne McGunigle are also onboard to produce. Speaking with Collider recently, Reddick says:
“There is a sixth one that’s planned the minute, again, the AMPTP comes back to the table, that movie is ready to go. 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.
[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. The fans are gonna be – it’s gonna be well worth the wait.”
The core concept of the film series sees a character having a premonition of a horrific event, cheats their death and saves several other lives in the process – only for death to come (in the form of horrific accidents) for those survivors one by one. The original five films were released from 2000-2011 and earned $700 million globally.
