Death is undefeated in the Final Destination series. After five movies and countless attempts to avoid it, death has always come for the targeted characters in the franchise. And, in the upcoming sixth film, Final Destination Bloodlines, you’ll catch a glimpse of how and why that started, at least in this series of stories.
The main reason death has to be so dastardly, though, is because the people it’s coming after have avoided it thanks to a seemingly out-of-nowhere premonition. Alex saw the plane crash before it happened, Kimberly saw the highway pile-up, Wendy saw the roller coaster accident, etc. But how is that happening? Why are these people seeing these visions of the future? Those questions lead some to theorize that there’s a force of good out there sending visions to the characters. Something that is fighting death. And, whatever it is, the franchise has yet to explain it.
Last week, io9 spoke to the directors of Final Destination Bloodlines, Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, and we asked for their thoughts on what is sending the premonitions. They didn’t know the answer but, instead, provided something even better. “We don’t have a canon answer, but we have theories,” Lipovsky told io9.
“There have been lots of fan theories about some force of good that’s providing the premonition,” Stein said. “[And] we don’t want to piss people off [because] that is very valid theory. Our own personal answer is that Death is bringing the premonitions because Death gets bored. He wants to have fun. So he does this thing, gives them enough clues that they could escape it if they’re paying attention, knowing that he’ll get them in the end in an even more fun way later.”
That’s a big, old bummer of a theory, but it does make sense. If a force of good was sending premonitions to the characters, why would it stop with just one? Couldn’t it do more? Instead, the way it has played out over and over again is that the premonition is basically a 100% guarantee that every person who escapes is going to die in a wild, unexpected way. And if your job was killing people, as it is for Death, that seems like a fun way to give yourself a challenge.
Of course, as Stein and Lipovsky said, they don’t have a canon answer for the question, nor did they seem to be aware if one even exists. So, maybe, that could be a part of a future film. But would you really want to explain away the beauty of the Final Destination franchise like that? I don’t think so.
Death’s latest symphony plays out in theaters May 16 when Final Destination Bloodlines is released.
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