Overview

• Deadline reports New Line is in talks with Belgian director Michiel Blanchart to helm the seventh Final Destination film.
• Craig Perry, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Jon Watts, Dianne McGunigle, and Toby Emmerich are reported to return as producers, with Warren Zide as executive producer.
• Lori Evans Taylor, a co-writer of Final Destination: Bloodlines, is reported to be writing the new screenplay.
• Blanchart broke out with the short You’re Dead Helene and the feature Night Call, which won ten Magritte Awards, and he is adapting You’re Dead Helene at TriStar with Sam Raimi producing.
• Bloodlines opened to $102 million worldwide and pushed the franchise past $1 billion in total grosses, and Deadline notes previous directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein declined an offer to return.