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Final Destination 5

8/31/10 - Final Destination 5 starts shooting September 13 in Vancouver.  David Koechner, Nicholas D'Agosto, P.J. Byrne and Ellen Wroe are joining the already-cast Miles Fisher, which centers on the idea that you can't cheat death, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The new movie sees the new batch of victims, co-workers on a corporate retreat, escaping the collapse of a city's suspension bridge.  Koechner is playing a clueless executive, D'Agosto is playing a guy who doesn't make fast decisions in his own life.  Byrne plays an obnoxious kleptomaniac. Relative newcomer Wroe plays the daughter of a company executive, a woman with gymnast training who is a little snobby and for whom everything is a contest.  Also, Tony Todd is back playing Mr. Bludworth. Steven Quale directs.

6/9/10 - Steven Quale will direct Final Destination 5, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The "Destination" movies, which center on the idea that one can't cheat death, usually begin with a group of people who survive a catastrophe because of the intervention of one person who has a premonition. Death, however, will have its due, and the survivors end up expiring in elaborate Rube Goldberg-like fashion.  Eric Heisserer wrote the script, and Craig Perry is producing, which has a September 13 start date in Vancouver.

5/27/10 - Warner Bros. chairman and CEO Barry Meyer announced Final Destination 5 release as August 26, 2011.  Teenagers continue to die in horrifying and entertaining ways in the fifth entry to the franchise.

4/28/10 – SCI FI Wire reported that The Final Destination fifth installment is in the works, and writer Eric Heisserer says the new movie will explain why it just keeps going on.  "We have an answer for that, but I can't get into it," Heisserer said.  The Final Destination franchise is based on the premise that you can't cheat death: In each of the four films, a character has a vision of a disaster (on a plane, on the highway, on a roller coaster and on a racetrack) and manages to save his friends. But death comes after each survivor later, using whatever combination of everyday items is available.  Heisserer's script seeks to answer some of the deeper questions of the Final Destination mythology. "Well, this time we are looking for what made the first Final Destination movie so unique and so interesting," Heisserer said. "We're going back to the mystery and the supernatural elements that that movie contained. We're looking at what makes a good suspense and horror movie, not just what makes a good Final Destination movie."

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