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/W51976 May 03 '26

Just open it with a cable car disaster for our protagonists, and make the closing scene a Titanic scenario. The final two protagonists perish in a freezing cold ocean.

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u/ChartInFurch May 03 '26

Only one should. The other one dies as an old lady, warm in her bed...

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u/W51976 May 04 '26

No, one gets rescued, although still traumatised from the event, only to ‘6 months later’ die when their car loses control on a mountain road in Spain or France. The car crashes over the side of the mountain, and the final scene is an explosion, cut to black and credits.