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Eric Heisserer Paying Attention to the Hallmarks of ‘Final Destination’ Franchise
It was announced last week that A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Thing screenwriter Eric Heisserer would be penning the fifth Final Destination movie that’s said t be heading back to the roots — in 3D. No details have been revealed other than it has something to do with “Lasik surgery.” Heisserer came up with the ingenious idea of the micro-naps in the Elm Street redo, so who knows what he’s concocted for the Destination franchise. Below you can read a small blurb from Heisserer about New Line’s plans.
“It will be out next year. That’s the plan,” Heisserer tells iF Magazine. “We’re going to go back to what made the original work and build from there. We’re going to make sure we’re creating good suspense horror movie that happens to be a FINAL DESTINATION movie. That’s not to say it’s not going to have the hallmarks of what we’ve come to love about the franchise. We learned a lot of lessons from the fourth movie, and we want to show we’ve grown from that. I also want to show what a love about the franchise, and most of what I loved about it, is all in the first one.”
More updates as they come in.
Jennifer Holland (“Peacemaker”) and Dave Annable (“Lioness”) will lead the cast of upcoming supernatural Civil War thriller Brine, Deadline reports this afternoon.
B.J. Golnick (“Hunting Hitler”) will be directing Brine.
Brine follows a family of Confederate deserters who escape the Union bombardment of Fort Pulaski with a cache of stolen gold and disappear into the Georgia marshlands.
When they take refuge in a remote plantation house, what first appears to be salvation slowly reveals itself as part of something ancient, predatory and impossible to escape.
Jonah Wharton (Lioness), Sissy Sheridan (Chicken Girls), and Grayson Lay (Outer Banks) also star. The screenplay was written by B.J. Golnick and Jeremy Miller.
“Brine is a story about survival, but it is also a story about inheritance…The violence we pass down, the myths we create to justify it, and the cost of trying to break free,” Golnick previews.
“We intend for the film to feel intimate, historically grounded and deeply unnerving, as if the supernatural elements weren’t invented, but unearthed from the marsh itself.”