Now thatSpider-Man: No Way Homehas finally launched and is setting new box office records on a seemingly weekly basis, the film’s director is ready to move on to things that don’t have anything to do with web slingers or caped crusaders. The man behindSpider-Man 3is now working to restart the Final Destination franchise, officially withFinal Destination 6.
For the early part of the 2000s, anewFinal Destinationmoviecame out every couple of years with the same basic plotline being that a group of people narrowly avoided a gruesome, deadly accident because the people who were slated to die had a vision of the impending doom seconds before everything went down. The rest of each movie was then geared towards a disembodied but apparently very sentient Death coming after those that had avoided it the first time, usually, in the same order, they were supposed to die the first time. The seemingly final installment in the series arrived more than 11 years ago now withFinal Destination 5arriving in 2011.
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While Watts was behind the camera asthe director forNo Way Home, it appears he’ll be handing that role off to someone else and is instead of taking on a producer’s position for what’s only being calledFinal Destination 6at the moment. Watts is new to the franchise, but he’ll be joining a team that has several Final Destination franchise veterans in Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor. Dianne McGunigle, Watts’ wife and manager is also joining the team as another producer.
There isn’t a great dealknown aboutFinal Destination 6other than who is going to be producing beyond the fact that Lori Evans Taylor and Guy Busick, who wroteReady or Notand worked on the upcomingScreamreboot, are now writing the screenplay. Watts did also write the treatment that got the whole ball rolling on what is going to be an HBO Max exclusive project.
Despite the long layoff since the last installment, it’s certainly not a mystery why there are people willing to return totheFinal Destinationfranchise. The first film made more than $112 million despite just a $23 million budget. The franchise over its five entries has earned a total of more than $700 million.
This isn’t the first time that someone has tried to restart the Final Destination series as it was last attempted in 2019. However, while that attempt never succeeded, it didn’t have theSpider-Man: No Way Homedirector on board.
