Steven Quale, who served as second unit director on Avatar and Titanic, co-director on Aliens of the Deep and has been a protege of James Cameron’s going back to The Abyss, has landed the role of directing Final Destination 5, says THR.com. Cameron even reportedly recommended his friend for the job to New Line. New Line was apparently interested in someone with 3D experience and technical know how to helm the next installment, which probably means it’ll go the 3D route again. Whatever.
Quale seems to have the credentials and I hope he does well on the gig, because the last installment, The Final Destination, was disappointing and brought almost nothing new to the franchise, save for the 3D gimmick. What the next installment is going to need is to build upon what FD2 did, which was expand the mythology. There need to be options like the one presented in FD2 (you can beat death by dying and then being revived) or not being able to die until one’s time, which TFD did bring up, but didn’t really explore. Otherwise the entire film is merely academic, no matter how interesting the kills. Bringing Tony Todd back also sure wouldn’t hurt.
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The Final Destination was all the more disappointing because David Ellis did such a good job with the 2nd. Honestly, Final Destination 2 is one of the greatest guilty pleasures ever made. I really doubt getting someone with more 3D experience is going to revive this franchise, they won't go anywhere new with the material.
I just wanna know how they're going to title this movie. The Finaler Destination? Regardless, this still beats a PG-13 Fright Night any nanosecond of the new millennium and, for me, the last movie would have been better than the 3rd movie if only at the very end they had not gone to showing all of the characters dying in x-ray. If they had shown that in real time, that shit would have been epic. I already laughed my ass off at how that racist bit the dust (I'll never look at that song "Why Can't We Be Friends?" in the same light ever again).
Theres only one title to use.
Final Destinations.
Fin4l Destination: 3D-2.
From the team that brought you AVATAR.
Wow James Cameron is a dick to his friends, won't even get them a decent movie.
Final De5tination is most likely. Damn you, whomever started that.
wasn't that started with se7en? which I've always thought was a retarded use of number-in-place-of-letters in a movie title…
FIVEal Destination
Expand the mythology? Dude, it's a dead teenager movie!
Th3 F!n@l D3st!n@t!0n(s) p@rt 5 : 3D p@rt 2: The revenge of Devon Sawa's career.
I WON'T WATCH IT…. I don't care who's creating it. The only good ones were the first 2, the 3rd I predicted would start on a roller coaster (no joke) and the 4th was horrible. I saw Halloween2 and TFD 3D in the same day and hated both… they sucked more than George Michael in a men's room. seriously.
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