Final Destination 3 (2006)
- Before Mary Elizabeth Winstead was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
- Many of the practical effects used in the climax were achieved without any CGI.
- James Wong originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
Final Destination 3 is a 2006 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wong, who returned to the franchise he co-created. Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as Wendy Christensen, a high school senior who has a premonition of a fatal roller coaster derailment at a graduation amusement park outing and panics, causing several students to exit the ride before the disaster occurs exactly as she foresaw. Death then begins claiming the survivors through elaborate chain-reaction accidents in the order they would have died on the roller coaster.
The deaths in Final Destination 3 were the franchise's most elaborate and inventively gruesome โ the tanning bed sequence, the hardware store nail-gun death, and the drive-through accident were precision-engineered horror set pieces that built tension through the audience's knowledge that something terrible was inevitable while keeping the exact mechanism surprising. Final Destination 3 earned $117 million worldwide on a $25 million budget.
