Basically I thought The Final Destination was lazy. A lackluster entry that was hoping that it was in 3D would hide the fact that it had absolutely nothing new nor interesting going for it. Supposedly it was to be the last entry in the series. But then $181 million in gross happened and now we’re barreling headlong into 5nal Destination. On a total side note, it would’ve been funny if they had done that for this fourth film so that it would have been 4nal Destination, just so that it looked like Anal Destination. It wouldn’t have made any sense to do that of course, but like 5nal is any less retarded.
Anyway, word has come from THR.com’s Heat Vision that there are four new names attached to the upcoming film: David Koechner (The Perfect Game), Nicholas D’Agosto (Fired Up!), P.J. Byrne (Dinner For Schmucks) and relative newcomer, Ellen Wroe. Koechner is playing a clueless executive; D’Agosto is playing a guy who doesn’t
make fast decision in his own life. Byrne plays an obnoxious kleptomaniac and Wroe plays the daughter of a
company executive, a woman with gymnast training who is a little snobby
and for whom everything is a contest. They join the previously-cast Miles Fisher and Arlen Escarpeta. Steven Quale is directing the project, which has its all-important
beginning taking place on a suspension bridge that collapses.
Good news: Tony Todd is returning as Mr. Bludworth, which is definitely a step in the write direction. Let’s see if they can work him meaningfully into the mythology rather than satiating fanwank with a cameo. And how about getting back to that preemptive, temporary death to avoid permanent death concept introduced in FD2? Or that people’s non death’s affect other people’s deaths? Good stuff that died just as surely as everyone in these films do.
5nal Destination is set to shoot in 3D again in September for an August 26, 2011 release.