Final Destination

Final Destination
DVD set containing all five films
Directed by	Final Destination 1, 3 James Wong Final Destination 2, 4 David R. Ellis Final Destination 5 Steven Quale
Produced by	Glen Morgan Warren Zide Craig Perry Toby Emmerich Jeffrey Reddick James Wong
Screenplay by	Final Destination 1, 3 Glen Morgan Final Destination 1, 3 James Wong Final Destination Jeffrey Reddick Final Destination 2 J. Mackye Gruber Final Destination 2, 4 Eric Bress Final Destination 5 Eric Heisserer
Story by	Final Destination 1 Jeffrey Reddick Final Destination 2 Jeffrey Reddick J. Mackye Gruber Eric Bress
Based on	Characters by Jeffrey Reddick
Starring	Devon Sawa Ali Larter Kerr Smith A.J. Cook Michael Landes Mary Elizabeth Winstead Ryan Merriman Bobby Campo Shantel VanSanten Mykelti Williamson Nicholas D'Agosto Emma Bell Tony Todd
Music by	Final Destination 1, 2, 3 Shirley Walker Final Destination 4, 5 Brian Tyler
Distributed by	Final Destination 1, 2, 3, New Line Cinema Final Destination 4, 5 Warner Bros.
Release date	Final Destination March 17, 2000 Final Destination 2 January 31, 2003 Final Destination 3 February 10, 2006 The Final Destination August 28, 2009 Final Destination 5 August 12, 2011
Running time	Total (5 films) 455 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	Total (5 films) US$154 million
Box office	Total (5 films) US$665,080,639

Final Destination is an American horror franchise composed of five films, comic books and novels. It is based on an unproduced spec script by Jeffrey Reddick, originally written for the X-Files television series, and was distributed by New Line Cinema. All five films center around a small group of people that escape impending death when one individual (the protagonist of each film) has a sudden premonition and warns them that they will all die in a terrible mass-casualty accident. After evading their foretold deaths, the survivors are killed one by one in bizarre accidents caused by an unseen force engineering complicated chains of cause and effect, resembling Rube Goldberg machines in their complexity.

The series is noteworthy amongst other films in the horror genre in that the antagonist is not a stereotypical slasher or other physical being, but Death itself, subtlely manipulating circumstances in the environment with a design on claiming anyone who escapes their fated demise.

In addition to the films, a novel series (which includes the novelizations of the first three films) was published throughout 2005 and 2006 by Black Flame. A one-shot comic book titled Final Destination: Sacrifice was released alongside select DVDs of Final Destination 3 in 2006, and a comic series titled Final Destination: Spring Break was published by Zenescope Entertainment in 2007.

High school student Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) boards Volee Airlines Flight 180 with his classmates for a field trip to Paris, France. Before take-off, Alex has a premonition that the plane will explode in mid-air, killing everyone on board. When the events from his vision begin to repeat themselves in reality, he panics, and a fight breaks out, which leads to several passengers being left behind including Clear Rivers (Ali Larter), Carter Horton (Kerr Smith), Billy Hitchcock (Seann William Scott), Valerie Lewton (Kristen Cloke), Terry Chaney (Amanda Detmer), and Tod Waggner (Chad Donella), who witness the plane explode moments later. Afterwards, the survivors begin to die one by one through a series of bizarre accidents, and Alex attempts to find a way to "cheat" Death's plan before it's too late. Six months later, Alex, Clear, and Carter travel to Paris to celebrate their survival, believing they have finally cheated Death; however, after Carter is crushed by a giant neon sign, they realize that Death's plan is still in action.