Here are some facts about Final Destination‘s origin story, creepy coincidences, and trivia about the whole Final Destination universe: Alex Browning freaks out after his first premonition of Death in the original Final Destination.ġ.
The film has had four sequels and is now one of the highest-grossing horror-movie franchises of all time. James Wong and Glen Morgan rewrote the script for New Line Cinema, and Final Destination was made five years later. Writer Jeffrey Reddick liked the idea so much, he never submitted it to The X-Files but instead began looking to sell it to a studio. The idea started as a 1994 spec script for The X-Files. The plot sounds like an urban legend: Someone gets off a plane right before it crashes, only for Death to circle back and kill him anyway. Final Destination (2000) changed the horror genre.