Screenwriter of THE THING Prequel to Pen 3D FINAL DESTINATION 5

by Matt Goldberg    Posted:April 25th, 2010 at 9:31 pm


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Eric Heisserer, who wrote the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street and the upcoming prequel for The Thing, has been hired to pen the screenplay for Final Destination 5 (which will be in 3D).  For those who don’t know, all of the Final Destination movies work like so: 1.) Main character has premonition of horrific disaster; 2.) Main character and supporting characters escape horrific disaster; 3.) Death comes to finish off each surviving character in the most elaborate fashion possible; 4.) Profit.  Each film has a modest budget and rakes in about $50 million.  The Final Destination was supposed to be the last one but then it grossed $181 million worldwide and here we are.

Heat Vision says not much is known about the plot (although I think I laid it out right there) but one of the characters will be undergoing laser-eye surgery.  I’m waiting for the Final Destination where Death takes out a character during a vaginoplasty.  New Line is hoping that Heisserer will break up the repetition of the series.  I suppose you could do that by having Death kill people in five seconds rather than five minutes.







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  1. Nunegro @

    They should have just stopped with the 2nd one. It attempted to do something different with the mythos. I'm not too keen on another one of these.

  2. Ere Avaturd @

    So the prequel to one of the best horrors in history will now be linked to a stupid franchise by having the same writer, great, now i dont have to get my hopes up for the THING prequel.

    for shame!

  3. kickingass @

    What does that swinging sword hanging from the ceiling do? Does it stab the poor pathetic whiny victim in their eyeball while the audience gasps and shivers with delight?

    http://tinyurl.com/flame-skull

  4. Ere Avaturd @

    So the prequel to one of the best horrors in history will now be linked to a stupid franchise by having the same writer, great, now i dont have to get my hopes up for the THING prequel.

    for shame!

  5. kickingass @

    What does that swinging sword hanging from the ceiling do? Does it stab the poor pathetic whiny victim in their eyeball while the audience gasps and shivers with delight?

    http://tinyurl.com/flame-skull


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