FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES Gets a 2025 Release Date
Final Destination: Bloodlines is set to hit theaters on May 16, 2025! The franchise is being resurrected with a sixth film, and it recently started production.
Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Freaks) are directing the film from a script written by Lori Evans Taylor (Wicked Wicked Games) and Guy Busick (Scream), with Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) producing.
The cast includes Teo Briones (Chucky), Brec Bassinger (Stargirl), Kaitlyn Santa Juana (The Friendship Game), Richard Harmon (Grave Encounters 2), Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones (The Book Of Boba Fett), Rya Kihlstedt (Obi Wan Kenobi), and Tinpo Lee (The Manor).
Late horror legend Tony Todd is also expected to return as William Bludworth. The film is said to dig into “Bludworth’s backstory, including a flashback to his childhood that reveals more about his connection to death.”
Producer Craig Perry talked about the film, saying: “After a long, hard slog through the pandemic and the strikes, Day One is finally in the can.
“2025 will mark the 25th anniversary of the release of the first installment in the franchise. To honor the occasion with another worldwide theatrical release (in IMAX, no less) is a rare and wonderful thing.
“See you next year! PS: I know, I know — Pet Sematary: Bloodlines. But this is the title we’ve had for three years, and we’re keeping it… for now.”
Franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick previously offered up an interesting tease last year, saying: “This film dives into the film in such a unique way that it attacks it from a different angle so you don’t feel like, ‘Oh, there’s an amazing setup and then there’s gonna be one wrinkle that can potentially save you all that you have to kind of make a moral choice about or do to solve it.’ There’s an expansion of the universe that – I’m being so careful.
“It kind of unearths a whole deep layer to the story that kind of, yes, makes it really, really interesting.”
He added that they are going to change things up a lot as the story will not involve the formula that the franchise beat to death over the first five films.
“I will say that it’s not just going to be another kind of ‘we set up a group of people, they cheat death, and then just death gets them.’
“And there’s one wrinkle that we kind of added to every movie to kind of like change it up a little bit: this one is… a true Final Destination movie, but it doesn’t follow that kind of formula that we’ve kind of established.”