Final Destination (2000)
- The incredible score for Final Destination was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- During the filming of Final Destination, Devon Sawa improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
- Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing James Wong's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
Final Destination is a 2000 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wong, based on a screenplay originally written for The X-Files. Devon Sawa stars as Alex Browning, a teenager who has a terrifying premonition of the plane he and his classmates are about to board exploding shortly after takeoff. His panicked reaction causes several students and a teacher to be removed from the flight, which then explodes exactly as he foresaw.
When the survivors begin dying one by one in elaborate, seemingly accidental ways β in the exact order they would have died on the plane β Alex realizes that Death itself is claiming the lives it was cheated of. Final Destination's genius was its villain: not a masked killer or monster but Death as an invisible, omnipresent, inescapable force that manipulates everyday objects and environments into lethal Rube Goldberg machines. The franchise's elaborate death sequences β in which seemingly innocuous events chain together with horrifying inevitability β became its defining feature and primary draw.
Final Destination earned $112 million worldwide on a $23 million budget and launched a franchise of five films.
