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‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Directors on Adding Gore After Test Screenings, Tony Todd’s Goodbye to Fans and How They Got the Job by Turning an Exec Zoom Call Into a Bloodbath
The directors of 'Final Destination Bloodlines' discuss how they were inspired to add more gore, and reveal how they shot Tony Todd's last scene.
Lipovsky and Stein spoke with Variety about the joys and challenges of reviving a beloved franchise after 14 years, going wild with the gore and filming a special scene with “Final Destination” mainstay and genre legend Tony Todd, who died in November. What the villain is in these movies is the filmmaking: All these insert, close-up shots of different objects connected to others, cut in the perfect suspenseful sequence to create the sense of a presence that comes from the characters. It was incredibly complex to do: We wanted a completely seamless live experience to have one of the directors get their head chopped off by a ceiling fan in the middle of pitching the movie over Zoom.
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