10 Things You Didn't Know About Final Destination

10. It Began As An X-Files Episode

Final Destination was directed by James Wong, who also helped co-write the screenplay with Glen Morgan and the man who came up with the idea in the first place, Jeffrey Reddick.

Reddick had been working at production studio New Line Cinema when he first imagined a story about a group of people who cheat death, only to be pursued by the Grim Reaper. Except, at the time, he didn't envision it as a feature film.

Initially, Final Destination was a spec script - an unsolicited screenplay usually penned by new authors to get attention - for an episode of The X-Files. Reddick was going to write the script in the hopes of getting a TV agent, but a colleague at New Line suggested he could stretch it out into a longer format.

It just so happened that both Wong and Morgan were working on The X-Files at the time. They saw the script, liked the idea, and offered to help Riddick get it made. The rest, as they say, is history.

Interestingly, in Reddick's original idea, the man who had the premonition was none other than Scully's brother. How different things could have been.