The fifth
Final Destination movie, likely to be titled
Final Destination 3-D has been given an August 26th 2011 release by New Line says
Vulture. This despite the last movie being hyped as
The Final Destination and the multitude of horrendous reviews (
27% rotten on RT) seemingly choking the life out of the franchise. But the series just - won't - die, even with New Line seemingly unimpressed with the latest 'death is stalking us' horror entry,
with one exec quoted as saying;
Its the worst film of the franchise. And thats not my opinion; thats everyones opinion.
Astonishingly the movie performed well. Its
$200 million worldwide gross (it only opened in Italy last week and continues to make money) from a $40 million budget meant
The Final Destination is the highest grossing film in the history of the franchise both domestically and internationally. Clearly, New Line didnt expect the movie to perform the way it did but once the franchise proved itself more profitable than ever before,
they couldnt resist but make another as Alan Horn said at ShoWest.
Eric Heisserer, the man responsible for writing the screenplays for the remakes to
A Nightmare on Elm Street and
The Thing has put together the story, with visual effects gurus,
Steve Quale (co-director of James Camerons
Aliens of the Deep),
Bradley Parker (visual effects & second unit on
Let Me In) and
Charles Gibson (second unit & visual effects on
Terminator Salvation and the
POTC franchise) all vying to direct. The movie has been announced for IMAX 3-D, and the easy title solution problem (as they skipped numbering the 4th movie as
Final Destination 4) is to call the new movie
Final Destination 3-D.