"Final Destination 7" in Works with "Bloodlines" Writer

A seventh “Final Destination” movie is in the works at New Line with “Bloodlines” co-writer Lori Evans Taylor returning to pen the new entry.

Craig Perry, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Jon Watts, Dianne McGunigle, and Toby Emmerich also return to produce the Warner Bros. and New Line movie with Warren Zide executive producing.

"Final Destination" was a surprise hit franchise for New Line in the early 2000s, with a concept that proved easy to transfer from movie to movie, locale to locale, victim to unwitting victim. Each movie centered on a character who has a premonition of a horrific and deadly event. They cheat his or her own death and save several other lives in the process, only to have Death, personified as an unstoppable force of nature, come for the survivors one by one.

“Final Destination: Bloodlines,” the sixth movie in the 25-year-old horror franchise, opened at No. 1 at the global box office this May. 

With a $51 million domestic debut, the movie achieved the best opening weekend in the series to date. By the end of its theatrical run, the pic became the franchise’s highest-grossing film, with a $286 million global haul. Overall, the feath-driven franchise has earned over $983 million worldwide, making it New Line’s third-biggest horror series behind “The Conjuring” universe ($2.3 billion) and the “It” movies ($1.2 billion).