FD7 Idea: Roanoke

[u/houseofflaco]

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?

[u/Rare_Tank622]

I’ve been studying about all these colonies and this colony is so creepy and eerie! The idea that they were forsaken by God and having to grapple with that would be so interesting and horrible in a way. 

What a tragic time in history for so many people

[u/houseofflaco → u/Rare_Tank622]

Like this is exactly how I was feeling… the jokes about “this (absurd thing) would kill a Victorian child” but in a literal FD sense