Final Destination‘s Creators Look Back at Its X-Files Origins

Final Destination hit theaters 25 years ago today, spawning a franchise that’s still going with this spring’s Final Destination: Bloodlines. That original film stood out among the early 2000s teen-horror craze, providing gruesomely creative death scenes that spiral from the idea that the killer isn’t a masked slasher—it’s Death itself, chasing after people who dodged their intended moment of demise. In a new oral history, the series’ creators look back on the film’s origins, including more details about something that’s a well-known part of its history: its ties to The X-Files. Speaking to Variety, writer Jeffrey Reddick recalled reading a magazine article about a woman who avoided a plane crash after a premonition told her not to fly—and how it sparked the idea about Death not taking kindly to being “cheated.” He thought of the perfect vehicle for such a story: The X-Files, which was then in its original run. “I wrote that idea as an X-Files [spec script] … so it was very serendipito ... Read full article.