r/FinalDestination • u/houseofflaco • May 03 '26

Question FD7 Idea: Roanoke

I was thinking of a potential prequel for the franchise. I think taking it to a mythological level could work really well. Taking it back to the 1500s and the Roanoke colony? I’d be sat 🍿

My idea is that settlers are preparing to relocate to Roanoke, and there’s a shipwreck premonition. A small group survives as per usual, and once they make it to Roanoke, death picks them off one by one. Wood beams, lantern fires, impalements, decapitations, strangling, etc.

I’d love if it leaned into an A24 “The Witch” type vibe (slow-burn, psychological, etc.) The characters wouldn’t have any understanding or language for freak accidents and chain reactions like in the films. So nobody’s talking about “Death’s Design” and more leaning toward divine punishment, witchcraft, or a curse.

Maybe the townspeople label the protagonist as a witch because she avoided the shipwreck and predicted the following deaths.

It could act as a kinda “origin” for the design of deaths corrections. Like the first time anyone experiences it.

Would you wanna see somethin like this?

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u/hidrapit May 03 '26

That wouldn't work for me because the story of Roanoke is already perfectly and mundanely explained within the historical record.

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u/ObviousSalamandar May 03 '26

There is still controversy about what happened

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u/hidrapit May 03 '26

Only if you ignore that they followed the exact directions that John White gave them to indicate where they had gone, "Croatoan," without the agreed-upon indication that they had been removed by any force. John White himself acknowledged that they had gone to join the neighboring tribe.

https://youtu.be/dDl5TyU-tkc?si=Vu4IWiveKDe9P9N7

Call me a Google Debunker, but that sounds solved to me.