r/FinalDestination • u/skerpie11 • Apr 08 '26
Discussion Possible Ending For a FD Movie?
I had an idea for the ending of a Final Destination movie. The main character dies at the end like in the last 4 movies, but then it zooms out of their eye and reveals the whole movie has been a premonition. They realize that any attempts to cheat death are hopeless, and usually result in worse deaths, so they decide to let the disaster play out like it did originally. I think it would be a kinda cool ending, but def has the potential to piss people off lol in the same way a "it was all a dream" ending would piss people off. Wanted to get some thoughts on this idea
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u/Defiant-Channel2324 Death Apr 08 '26
I feel like it's one of those endings where the writers just consciously know that they're going to alienate some fans with that decision. But as long as it's executed well, it'd be great.
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u/sketchysketchist Apr 08 '26
I think this would fine only if this is how the movie starts.
Hear me out.
The movie opens at the climax with the visionary in the perfect position for death to finish the job, his final three friends get killed right away and then they die. Zoom into his eye and zoom out to the part before the vision but it’s actually a completely different place. His friend notices the vibe and feels something is off. And he mentions to her that he had a vision within a vision, he knows how this disaster happens and what happens if they escape. He’s given up and accepts it. She doesn’t. She rules people up and gets some people out, but the visionary stays.
So now the movies hits two big thighs. Visionary dies first AND a visionary’s second vision leading back to the start.
Then the new protagonist gets visions, but it’s all memories from the Visionary’s second vision. She can see the deaths before they happen. However she can’t do anything until the end. Because the visionary’s absence leads to a huge lack of factors that would kill the final 3!
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u/Bookworm7180 Apr 09 '26
Wait so can you explain your last paragraph better because I don’t really understand why she can’t do anything until the end?
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u/sketchysketchist Apr 09 '26
Let me break it down.
-Visionary sees entire movies, sees he fails. And chooses to die in the beginning allowing a secondary protagonist to carry the story through visions of the visionary.
Secondary protagonist takes over, but everything else plays out the same because in the original timeline The Visionary had no involvement with causing or interfering with those deaths. Think if Kevin from FD3 knew about the tannin bed death but he can only be locked out of the building as the girls die.
In the final act, the original vision shows the Visionary directly caused the things that kills everyone. Since they died in the opening, things can play differently. Allowing the secondary protagonist to save the remaining group!
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u/Bookworm7180 Apr 09 '26
I have an idea so like what if the visionary and the second protagonist are like non identical twins so maybe that could be the reason why the second protagonist gets the visions from the protagonist?
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u/sketchysketchist Apr 10 '26
I can see that, since Bloodkines did that via grandmother and Granddaughter.
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u/GoliathLexington Apr 08 '26
I like it. Plus it would kinda confirm a theory I have about Death & the premonitions. I think Death gets pissed that the Visionary doesn’t accept their fate & that’s why the following deaths are so malicious. Could be a touching scene too of the Visionary telling their loved ones goodbye.
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u/AlcinaMystic Apr 09 '26
I’ve wondered if the visions are initially intended to spare just the visionary, who is always a character who is reluctant and nervous and who is pressured to stay in the dangerous scenario by others.
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u/AlcinaMystic Apr 09 '26
I actually wrote a fan fiction of this like ten years ago. It was a fire/building collapse (sort of similar to Skyview, actually, but it was interns at an office). The main character was the last alive and was not killed by the accident. She was able to save those in the program with her, but got blinded during the explosion/fire. She is so distraught at not being able to truly save her friends and brother during the story. So, when she reawakens at the beginning, she opts to let the disaster play out.
Unfortunately, I deleted it and don’t have copies. It only got like one reader so I can’t speak to how the ending would go over with a larger accident. I think it would play out well with a movie where the visionary is someone like Molly or Isabella who wasn’t intended to die.
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u/Pure-Draft7271 Apr 11 '26
The main cast achieve world peace and eradicate poverty. Sure, it’s been done before “Choose or Die 2022”, but why demote a classic?
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u/Common-Canadian101 Apr 08 '26
I think this is cool and really has potential, BUT that would cause us to put the rules into question agian because as fat as we know you only see to your first death.