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This article is about the first installment of the series. For the 2009 film, see The Final Destination. For general information, see Final Destination (film series).
Final Destination
Theatrical release poster
Directed by James Wong
Produced by Glen Morgan
Warren Zide
Craig Perry
Screenplay by James Wong
Glen Morgan
Jeffrey Reddick
Story by Jeffrey Reddick
Starring Devon Sawa
Ali Larter
Kerr Smith
Tony Todd
Music by Shirley Walker
Cinematography Robert McLachlan
Editing by James Coblentz
Studio Zide/Perry Productions
Hard Eight Pictures
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date(s) March 17, 2000
Running time 98 minutes
Country Canada
United States
Language English
Budget $23 million[1]
Box office $112,880,294[1]
Final Destination is a 2000 supernatural horror film written and directed by James Wong. The film was co-written by Glen Morgan and Jeffrey Reddick, both of them having previously worked with Wong in the TV series The X-Files. The film stars Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith and Tony Todd. Sawa portrays a teenager who "cheats death" after having a premonition of himself and others perishing in a plane explosion and uses it by saving himself and a handful of other passengers, but is continued to be stalked by Death by claiming back their lives which should have been lost in the plane.
The film was based on a spec script for The X-Files written by Reddick. After his co-writers admired his screenplay, writing partners Wong and Morgan were interested and agreed to direct a feature film with it, marking Wong's film directing debut.[2][3]
Filming took place in New York and Vancouver. Final Destination was released on March 17, 2000, and was a financial success, making $10 million on its opening weekend.[1] The film received mixed reviews from critics; where negative reviews classified the film as "dramatically flat" and "aimed at the teen dating crowd", while positive reviews praised the film for "generating a respectable amount of suspense", "playful and energized enough to keep an audience guessing" and as "an unexpectedly alert teen-scream disaster chiller".[4][5] It received the Saturn Award for Best Horror Film and Best Performance by a Younger Actor for Sawa's performance.[6][7] The film's success spawned four sequels composed of Final Destination 2 (2003), Final Destination 3 (2006), The Final Destination (2009) and Final Destination 5 (2011), all distributed by New Line Cinema; as well as a series of novels and comic books published by Black Flame and Zenescope Entertainment respectively. |
