He gets off the plane, and people around him who got off with him start dying.
It’d be cool to bring Scully’s brother into it, and he has this premonition. When I was trying to think about the beginning of an X-Files episode, I thought, Scully had a brother who was never seen on the show. That put the germ of the idea in my head. I have a bad feeling about it.” And she changed her mind. Her mom called her and told her, “Don’t take the flight you’re on tomorrow. REDDICK: The story was about a woman who was on her honeymoon or on vacation.
That was the hook for the initial concept of what was then a TV spec script for The X-Files. I n the mid-’90s, Reddick was flying back home to Kentucky when he read a story in People Magazine, in which a mother experienced a premonition that her daughter’s flight was going to explode. We tag-teamed the film together.ĭevon Sawa and Amanda Detmer, photo courtesy of Amanda Detmer I had been helping him for a few years coordinating and performing. JJ Makaro was called to do the stunt coordinating. They wanted to know if I wanted to do a stunt for a film.
I was approached on a race track by one of the people who knew one of the trainers. I’d doubled for a lot of kids in my career. You don’t walk out of the theatre thinking: Do I go left or right here, and what does that mean for my life?ĭAVID MYLREA (ASSISTANT STUNT COORDINATOR): I had started off my career being a jockey because of my height and stature. It makes people think a bit more than they would watching some guy with a hook cutting people up. It calls upon the audience to bring to the table everything they think about fate, death, and life. It’s something beyond the world we’re in. The thing that made Final Destination stand out and ultimately stand the test of time is that the slasher is an idea, a notion. That’s all good, but it started to diminish the genre. Some were self-referential and a bit snarky. In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Consequence of Sound spoke with actors Amanda Detmer and Kerr Smith screenwriter/creator Jeffrey Reddick and producer Craig Perry, among others, about the film’s inception, key story beats, special makeup effects, behind-the-scenes logistics, and whether or not this film could have been made post-9/11.įinal Destination Film Premiere, photo courtesy of Craig PerryĬRAIG PERRY (PRODUCER): There were a whole host of movies that were very teeny bopper and completely disposable at the time. Since then, many have regarded the film as a distinct turning point for modern horror, paving the way for splatter and torture-porn films like Saw (2004), Hostel (2005), and High Tension (2003). The use of death itself as an unseen killer, discarding slasher tropes of a guy in a mask with a knife, was groundbreaking for its time.
Released on March 17, 2000, Final Destination nudged out a $10 million opening weekend and went on to spawn four sequels and a forthcoming reboot/sequel currently in pre-production.