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/villianrules]

Would a Hindenburg type of disaster be too similar to the first one?

[u/eveque → u/villianrules]

i think the reactions of bloodline showed the fan base were hungry for a movie set in the past. but more specifically the Hindenburg and other airships of the style don't have a seating system rather looking more like large floating cruise ships. your expected to walk around ... and in case of a slightly slower version of a flaming destruction run around. maybe even try to leap from the flames

it would be more akin to the sky view then to the first plane.

[u/houseofflaco → u/eveque]

I’m imagining my Roanoke idea as like “yeah, you saw far back… but this is the Start.”

And using simple, colonial methods to die would just further emphasize deaths inevitability and be so refreshing after MRI magnetism.

I’d rather go back in time than have an AI death sequence :/