Directors Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein (Freaks) wanted to helm Final Destination Bloodlines so badly that they faked Stein’s death in a pitch meeting over Zoom, to demonstrate their keen understanding of the horror franchise centered around elaborate, graphic deaths. Lipovsky explained why in a chat with Bloody Disgusting ahead of the sequel’s release in […]
Directors Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein (Freaks) wanted to helm Final Destination Bloodlines so badly that they faked Stein’s death in a pitch meeting over Zoom, to demonstrate their keen understanding of the horror franchise centered around elaborate, graphic deaths.
Lipovsky explained why in a chat with Bloody Disgusting ahead of the sequel’s release in theaters on May 16.
“The idea to fake our deaths came from the idea of how to communicate tone in a directing pitch. You’re always trying to express what the movie’s going to be like when you watch it. And it’s really difficult to just say, ‘It’s going to be surprising, it’s going to be gory, it’s going to be funny.’ How do you actually make them feel that?”
“Show, don’t tell,” Stein adds.
“Show, don’t tell,” Lipovsky affirms. “We decided, well, let’s actually have this surprise sequence happen to them over Zoom and have Adam’s head chopped off mid-pitch. That really communicated tone to them because they got to experience that.”
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