You won't see this Final Destination: Bloodlines twist coming- and that's the point

The forthcoming film Final Destination: Bloodlines shall come with a twisted surprise!

Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein have joined together to helm the upcoming sixth installment of the Final Destination film series. While speaking to SFX Magazine, helmer Zach Lipovsky has revealed how the upcoming film stands apart from the rest of the films of this franchise.

The film traces back to the earliest instances of intuition regarding death, back in the year 1969. The intuition commences from someone's standpoint, but it concludes from the vision of a completely separate individual altogether. About this particular element of unpredictability of the film, Lipovsky mentioned that the impact it will have on the viewers to be something "that's going to immediately throw them for a loop."

Let us find out what Zach Lipovsky had to say about the Final Destination: Bloodlines twist.

You won't see this Final Destination: Bloodlines twist coming- and that's the point

In the official trailer of Final Destination: Bloodlines, we witness a flashback death scene from the 1960s. That was the first instance of intuition in the film.

It traces back to the origins of the curse as it goes back to Stefani's grandmother, Iris Campbell's younger days. She experiences a premonition of multiple deaths occuring at an event, and she strives to save everyone. That instance from the past has become the seed that has triggered the curse upon the entire family.

But this film shall break the pattern of the previous films in the Final Destination franchise. This time, we witness the premonition beginning from a person's perspective at a particular time, but it ends from a different individual's viewpoint from the current time. Zach Lipovsky, while speaking to SFX Magazine, explains:

“For this film, the first premonition takes place in 1969. There are lots of deaths during the premonition, which is what normally happens in the opening sequence of a Final Destination movie, but we then come out of the eye of a different person in the modern day. That’s new. For a lot of fans, I think that’s going to immediately throw them for a loop. It’s going to make them lean forward to try and figure out what’s going on.”

Lipovsky further elucidated the importance of the element of unpredictability in a film and the impact it has on the audience, as he says:

"As moviegoers, we love it when you have to lean forward in your seat because a movie is being unpredictable. We switch up a lot of the predictability, including who's going to die next and how they are going to die. You might think it's one person, but it's not. There's a delight in that."

Final Destination: Bloodlines is slated to make its release next month, on 16th May, 2025. In the film, we shall witness late actor Tony Todd in his last appearance in films, in the iconic role of William Bludworth.

The film stars Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Richard Harmon, Teo Briones, Gabrielle Rose, Owen Patrick Joyner, Brec Bassinger, and many others.

It follows the plot of Stefanie, who, in the quest of protecting her family, discovers the one who can end this curse of unexpected deaths once and for all.

Its synopsis, as mentioned by Rotten Tomatoes, goes as follows:

"The newest chapter in New Line Cinema's bloody successful franchise takes audiences back to the very beginning of Death's twisted sense of justice. Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all."