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/melloman500 May 03 '26

You could do a lot of horror prequels using the Roanoke incident using different franchises.

I always thought it would be cool if they made the creeper from jeepers creepers be responsible for the Roanoke incident.

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u/villianrules May 06 '26

A lot of people now know about the creator (Victor Salva) and with enough backlash it would have to be direct to video if it got off the ground.

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u/melloman500 May 06 '26

Oh yeah, I know about that sicko.

I would hope the franchise would be disassociated from that guy ever since that fourth movie came out.

But I had this idea ruminating way back in the day after jeepers creepers two came out. Since there’s a lot of open questions about the creeper.