A seventh “Final Destination” movie is in the works at New Line with “Bloodlines” co-writer Lori Evans Taylor returning to pen the new installment.
Craig Perry, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Jon Watts, Dianne McGunigle and Toby Emmerich also return to produce the Warner Bros. and New Line movie with Warren Zide executive producing.
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“Final Destination: Bloodlines,” the sixth movie in the 25-year-old horror franchise, opened at No. 1 at the global box office this May. With a $51 million domestic debut, the movie achieved the best opening weekend in the series to date. (It grossed a terrific $102 million worldwide.) By the end of its theatrical run, it became the franchise’s highest-grossing film, with a $286 million global haul. Overall, the Death-driven film series has earned over $983 million worldwide, making it the studio’s third-biggest horror franchise behind “The Conjuring” universe ($2.3 billion) and the “It” movies ($1.2 billion).
Taylor co-wrote the screenplay for “Bloodlines” with Gary Busick, reviving a franchise that had been dormant for 14 years following 2011’s “Final Destination 5.” The pair, along with filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, expanded the scope of the franchise via a plot that saw Death — the movies’ ever-present (and persistent) antagonist — attempting to reclaim its victims across multiple generations of the same family, ultimately delivering a movie that was “clever, unpredictable and fun,” per Variety’s review. The review also credited Taylor and Busick with creating “one impishly dangerous situation after another for their characters while understanding that the films’ foundational misdirection (especially in terms of how each one will die) works best when the audience doesn’t have to suspend disbelief too much to buy each homicidal sequence of events.”
Taylor is also known for the 2024 psychological thriller “Cellar Door” and 2022’s Bed Rest,” a supernatural thriller starring Melissa Barrera, with which Taylor made her directorial debut. Upcoming, she penned the adaptation of Carla Norton’s “The Edge of Normal,” with Chloë Grace Moretz starring and Carlota Pereda directing, and she also adapted “I Am Still Alive” for Universal, with Ben Affleck attached to star and produce. Taylor is repped by WME, Kaplan/Perrone and McKuin, Frankel, and Whitehead.
The Hollywood Reporter first reported that the new movie was in development.
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