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Final Destination Bloodlines
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Screenplay by
Story by
Based onCharacters
by Jeffrey Reddick
Produced by
  • Craig Perry
  • Sheila Hanahan Taylor
  • Jon Watts
  • Dianne McGunigle
  • Toby Emmerich
Starring
CinematographyChristian Sebaldt
Edited bySabrina Pitre
Music byTim Wynn
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • May 16, 2025 (2025-05-16)
Running time
110 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Final Destination Bloodlines (also known as Final Destination 6) is a 2025 American supernatural horror film[2] directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein and written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor, based on a story developed by them and Jon Watts. It is the sixth installment in the Final Destination film series, following Final Destination 5 (2011). The film stars Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Rya Kihlstedt, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger, and Tony Todd, the latter of whom died in November 2024, and to whom the film is dedicated.[3] Santa Juana plays Stefani Reyes, a college student who inherits a premonition her grandmother had in 1968 about a tower collapse and attempts to save her entire family after Death starts killing them one by one because they should never have existed.

The film is scheduled to be released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on May 16, 2025.

Plot

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In 1968, pregnant Iris Campbell and her fiancé Paul attend the opening ceremony of the Skyview Restaurant Tower. During the dance party, Iris suffers a premonition in which a chandelier's shard cracks the glass floor beneath the guests while a gas heater leaks and ignites a massive explosion, leading to the tower's collapse and killing everyone.

In the present day, college student Stefani Reyes experiences nightmare disorders about Iris' premonition and returns to her home for answers. She is greeted by her father Marty and her younger brother Charlie, the latter of whom accompanies her to visit their uncle Howard and aunt Brenda. The siblings are received by their cousins Erik, Julia, and Bobby, and Stefani asks Howard about Iris, her grandmother. Howard explains that Iris has been reclusive since the premonition, which led her daughter and Stefani's mother Darlene to leave them. Due to her insistence, Brenda gives Stefani the letters Iris sent to Howard and she goes to her fortified cabin in the woods.

Stefani meets her grandmother and Iris reveals that she disrupted Death's plan by warning the guests to leave the glass floor before it breaks. In response, the tower never collapsed but Death began killing the survivors and their descendants generation after generation for being lives that should never have existed.[a] Paul was among the casualties, but Iris compiled information about the countless accidents in a book she kept to cheat Death for years and prolong Howard's and Darlene's lifespan. Stefani refuses to believe her, but Iris leaves her cabin to give Stefani the book and save her family; a chain reaction causes a weather vane to impale Iris' mouth, killing her.

After Iris' funeral, Darlene returns home although Stefani resents her for distancing herself since Stefani and Charlie were children. Howard hosts a family barbecue while Stefani reads Iris' book, learning that someone named J. B. found a survivor who defeated Death's plan. As the family is having fun, Howard steps on a piece of glass and falls into a running lawn mower that fatally shreds his face. Now convinced that Death is after her family, Stefani tries to warn them but no one believes her.

That night, another chain reaction causes Erik's tattoo shop to set ablaze, but he survives his burns due to his leather clothing. Stefani and Charlie visit their cousins, but Erik remains skeptical until Julia is hit by a ball and falls into a trash can that is throwed into a garbage truck. Despite their attempts to save her, Julia is crushed to death. The family now realizes that Death is killing them one by one, with only Marty and Brenda spared for not being part of Iris' bloodline. Brenda, however, reveals that Erik is her son from a previous marriage and therefore it also saves him. With Bobby next on the list, the family travel to the hospital to find J. B., who turns out to be William Bludworth.

Bludworth explains that he was a child survivor of the tower collapse and worked with Iris for several years to find a way to save themselves from their fate. He tells them that only new life can defeat Death and that Kimberly Corman and Thomas Burke are the only survivors who managed to achieve it.[b] Bludworth also reveals that he has terminal cancer and is just waiting for Death to come and claim his life. Erik and Bobby try to create "new life" by making Bobby eat nuts so that his allergic reaction will kill him and so Erik can revive him with a epinephrine autoinjector. The plan backfires as a MRI machine malfunctions, rips Erik's body piercings and a wheelchair fatally crushes him against the machine while a vending machine's spring impales Bobby's head.

Stefani, Charlie, and Darlene travel to Iris' cabin in a RV, but it crashes and Stefani's seabelt jams. The cabin explodes after a chain reaction ignites a fire; Stefani begins to drown while Darlene saves Charlie and pleads him to save Stefani before a lamp post falls and bisects her. Charlie breaks the seatbelt to free Stefani and gives her CPR to revive her, thus disrupting Death's plan and saving both of them. One week later, at Charlie's graduation ceremony, the siblings are informed by Charlie's girlfriend's father, a doctor, that a person is only considered dead from drowning after twenty minutes, and Charlie revived his sister within a minute, revealing that she was merely unconscious. Just as the siblings realize the implication, a train derails in the neighborhood and several lodges it was carrying in the compartment fall on Stefani and Charlie, killing them instantly.

Cast

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Further information on individual characters: List of Final Destination Bloodlines characters

Production

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Filmmaker Jon Watts produced and conceived the story for the sixth installment, and chose directing duo Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein to helm the film from over 200 candidates.

Before the release of Final Destination 5 in 2011, series actor Tony Todd said that if the film were to be successful, two sequels would be filmed back-to-back.[9] In January 2019, New Line Cinema announced a new installment was in development. Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan wrote the initial script, described as a "re-imagining" of the franchise.[10][11] In March 2020, series producer Craig Perry said the film would be set "in the world of first responders" and feature EMTs, firefighters, and police officers. When asked if it was in the same canon as the previous installments, he said, "Reboot is probably too strong of a word ... it makes it sound like they're going to change everything, but it's definitely a Final Destination movie".[12] That October, series creator Jeffrey Reddick confirmed a sixth film had been in the works prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.[13]

In October 2021, Lori Evans Taylor was reported to be the new writer for the film.[14] In January 2022, HBO Max announced it would distribute the film, Jon Watts joined the project as a producer, and Taylor was confirmed to have written the screenplay alongside Guy Busick.[15] That July, Reddick revealed the film would differ from the franchise's formula.[16] In September that year, Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein were selected from over two hundred candidates to direct the film. During a Zoom meeting with executives and producers from New Line to make their pitch, Lipovsky and Stein staged a freak accident like the ones in the films at the end of the call; insiders said the joke, which featured a combination of prerecorded footage and visual effects and demonstrated the filmmakers' passion for the film, got them hired.[17] In September 2023, Todd officially signed on to reprise his role as William Bludworth. The film will explore the character's backstory.[18] Despite Todd's death in November 2024, Warner Bros. confirmed that he had shot all of his scenes for the film.[3] In March 2024, it was announced that the film would be released in theaters by Warner Bros. Pictures.[19] Most of the cast was also revealed.[20] 71-year-old stuntwoman Yvette Ferguson came out of retirement for a fire stunt in the premonition scene, which director Lipovsky believes to be a world record for the oldest person set on fire on camera.[8]

Principal photography was scheduled to take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, from July to October 2023,[21] but in mid-July, production was delayed due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.[22] With Christian Sebaldt as cinematographer, filming instead took place in Vancouver from March 4 to May 13, 2024.[19][23] Tim Wynn was hired to compose the score by December 2024.[24]

Release

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Final Destination Bloodlines is scheduled to be released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on May 16, 2025.[19][25] The film was filmed for IMAX and will be released in both IMAX and standard formats.[26] A double-bill special screening was shown in select theaters on May 9 and 10, a week before the film's release, which included the original 2000 film.[27]

The film's trailer was released on March 25, 2025, across 65 markets and was available in 44 different language versions. As calculated by WaveMetrix, it garnered 178.7 million views worldwide within the first 24 hours, making it the second most-watched horror film trailer (behind New Line's It with 200 million views).[28]

Notes

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  1. ^ As depicted in the previous films (2000–2011)
  2. ^ As depicted in Final Destination 2 (2003)

References

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