Final Destination

Name: Final Destination
Genre: Horror
Released: 2000-03-17
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke, Daniel Roebuck

No accidents. No coincidences. No escapes. You can't cheat death.

Final Destination (2000)

Timing: 1:38 (98 min)

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Release date

2000-03-17

Country

United States

Production

New Line Cinema, Zide-Perry Productions, Hard Eight Pictures

Genre

Horror

Budget

$23 000 000

Revenue

$112 880 294

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Director

James Wong

Actors

Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke, Daniel Roebuck, Roger Guenveur Smith, Chad Donella, Seann William Scott, Tony Todd, Amanda Detmer
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Craig Perry, Warren Zide, Glen Morgan, Richard Brener, Brian Witten

Operator

Robert McLachlan

Composer

Shirley Walker

Artist

John Willett, Bill McMahon

Audition

John Papsidera

Editing

James Coblentz, Mark J. Levenstein
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Short description

After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

What's left behind the scenes

Much of the news report about the plane explosion is taken from a real incident that occurred in July 1996. On July 17, 1996, a Boeing 747 aircraft of Trans World Airlines, en route from New York to Paris (Flight 800), exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean just minutes after takeoff. None of the passengers or crew (230 people) survived. The investigation lasted more than four years and led American experts to conclude that the cause of the plane crash was an electrical wiring failure, not a terrorist attack or a design defect in the aircraft, as had been repeatedly claimed in the American press.
A working title for the film was "Flight 180".
The film uses music by John Denver, a composer who died in a plane crash.
Originally, the plot was intended to be used for one of the episodes of the TV series “The X-Files” (1993-2018), and the idea for the plot was inspired by the screenplay for the horror film “Alone” (1984) by Tom Eberhardt. In that film, a girl becomes the sole survivor of a plane crash and is hunted by the dead, carrying out the will of Death.
It took five days to build the house of the heroine, played by Kristen Cloke. Residents of Vancouver liked it so much that they even asked the filmmakers not to destroy it, as originally planned.
The news program shown in the film features the very same report from the broadcast schedule of July 17, 1996, which reported on the crash of a Trans World Airlines Boeing 747 over New York.
At the beginning of the film, Devon Sawa (who played Alex) was supposed to pretend to be asleep. At that moment, he actually fell asleep.
It took five days to create the shot of Alex's bedside clock, in which the numbers indicating midnight turn into the number 180.
The scene with the fizzing Alka-Seltzer tablets, after Terry (played by Amanda Detmer) is hit by a bus, had to be extended so that the audience could recover.
In the scene where Valeri, played by Kristen Cloke, is stabbed with a knife, the actress lay under a false floor, with a mannequin positioned above her, into which the knife was plunged.
The role of Alex could have gone to Tobey Maguire, and the role of Claire to Kirsten Dunst.
At the airport, a woman tells Alex that the flight will depart at 9:25, which perfectly coincides with his birthday (September 25th – 09/25 in the American date format). On the plane, Alex is assigned seat I (the ninth letter of the alphabet) in row 25.
The scene where Carter hits Billy in the face was added to the script due to production necessity. The reason was that actor Sean William Scott developed a cold sore on his lip that day. To conceal it and avoid disrupting the filming schedule, it was suggested to 'split his lip' during an argument between the characters and cover the sore with fake blood.
This plot was originally intended for an episode of 'The X-Files' (1993-2018), and the idea was inspired by the screenplay of Tom Eberhardt's horror film 'The Sole Survivor' (1984). In that film, a girl becomes the only surviving passenger of a plane crash, and she is hunted by dead people carrying out the will of Death, who sent them.
It took five days to build the house of the character played by Kristen Cloke. The residents of Vancouver liked it so much that they even asked the filmmakers not to destroy the house, as was originally planned.
At the beginning of the film, Devon Sawa (who played Alex) had to pretend to be asleep. At that moment, he actually fell asleep.
The number '180' appears repeatedly in the film, which is a reference to the project's original title, 'Flight 180'. The distribution company, New Line Cinema, decided to rename the film 'Final Destination' to avoid confusion with other movies, such as 'Air Force One' (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) or 'Con Air' (Simon West, 1997).
The airplane sets were constructed on special suspensions that allowed the entire structure to shake. Later, these were dismantled, and the sets for the upper floor of the house of the character played by Ali Larter—through which she runs during the hurricane—were placed on the suspension.
The scene where Ali Larter's character gets out of the car and runs into Devon Sawa (who played Alex) on the beach was filmed on an actual beach.
The scene in which Carter hits Billy in the face was added to the script for production reasons. As it happened, actor Sean William Scott had a cold sore on his lip that day. To hide it and avoid disrupting the filming schedule, it was suggested that the character 'split his lip' during the argument, allowing the sore to be covered with fake blood.
The scene with the Alka-Seltzer tablets after Terry (played by Amanda Detmer) is hit by a bus had to be extended to give the audience time to recover from the shock.
In the scene where Valerie, played by Kristen Cloke, is stabbed, the actress lay beneath a false floor, while a mannequin was placed on top to receive the knife.