8 Movie Characters Who Foreshadowed Their Own Deaths

5. James Franco (This Is The End)

This Is The End James Franco
Columbia Pictures

Starring James Franco as James Franco, This Is The End is a surprisingly clever and very funny movie about a gaggle of celebrities trying to survive the end of the world.

At the end of the movie, Franco - after electing to sacrifice himself to save Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel - is eaten alive by Danny McBride and a gang of hungry cannibals.

Funnily enough, Franco had already described this very outcome much earlier in the film, during a scene where he and Rogen are discussing ideas for Pineapple Express 2's ending.

After Rogen admits he doesn't know how the movie should end, Franco interjects with his own suggestion: "Danny's trying to kill us, and I sacrifice myself for you... and Danny f***in' eats me."

This is exactly the way This Is The End pans out, with McBride eventually munching on Franco's face.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!