Aiming to make the latest entry in the Final Destination series, New Line has nabbed writer Eric Heisserer to create the script.
Heisserer is getting something of a reputation for getting problem films solved and shooting: he’s credited with the screenplays for both the new Nightmare On Elm Street and the prequel to The Thing. Both had lingered in development for a while.
And, according to the Heat Vision Blog, the Destination series could do with a similar jolt after studio types saw the last one hit with production problems and a critical drubbing. Still, it made money and so the fifth film was pushed into development.
We doubt Heisserer will completely re-invent the wheel, since the core element of the franchise – bunch of high-schoolers/ twentysomethings escape death at a catastrophe, only for the reaper to hunt them down in creative fashion – is one of its selling points.
And while nothing much has been revealed yet, we’re told one scene features laser-eye surgery.
