How Final Destination Bloodlines Ensured Tony Todd Got a Proper Send-Off

When you go to the theater to see Final Destination Bloodlines this weekend, you expect to be disgusted. You expect to laugh and scream at outrageous deaths. But what you aren’t expecting is to get moved to tears, and that just might happen thanks to an incredible scene from the late, great Tony Todd. Todd has been a part of the Final Destination franchise since the beginning. He plays William Bludworth, a mortician who, for some reason, knows more about Death’s plan than everyone else. In Final Destination Bloodlines, you’ll learn more about that, but you’ll also see Todd—who passed away in November of last year—put the character to bed in a very fitting way. “We knew from while we were developing that he was sick,” one of the film’s directors, Zach Lipovsky, told io9 in Los Angeles last week. “So it was developed with that in mind, with him. At first, we were worried that he wouldn’t want to be in it or that he wouldn’t be able to be in it. But he was so excited to be in the movie. ... Read full article.