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• 🩰 Keanu is back! New trailer drops for John Wick spinoff Ballerina featuring Ana de Armas (she crushed it in James Bond if you forgot).

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• 🦸 Bruce Willis advised Samuel L. Jackson to find a beloved recurring character like John McClane, advice he later followed with Nick Fury.

• 💋 Andrew Schulz defends Lauren London avoiding Jonah Hill kiss in You People, faces network anger despite viral publicity.

• 🎧 Pedro Pascal stars in Spike Jonze (Her, Jackass) directed short film Someday promoting Apple AirPods.

• 🐕 Darren Aronofsky reportedly in talks with Netflix to direct remake of Stephen King's Cujo (here’s that OG trailer from 1983).

• 🍿 Here’s 3 new trailers for Together (Dave Franco, Alison Brie), The Materialists (Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal), and Toxie’s back!

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💀 Final Destination Originally X-Files Script

Final Destination began life in an unexpected place – as an X-Files spec script that Jeffrey Reddick penned after reading about a woman who avoided a plane crash due to a premonition.

"When I read the article, it just went into my head: what if she 'cheated' death, and what would that look like if death decided to come after her?" Reddick explains. The premise found its way to X-Files executive producers James Wong and Glen Morgan, transforming from a Mulder and Scully investigation into something more ambitious.

Wong, who directed the film, notes the key difference in approach: "Exploring this premise as an X-Files episode, you would be concentrating on Mulder and Scully... and they had to survive." The cinematic format allowed for spectacular death sequences impossible on television.

The creative team made several crucial decisions that defined the franchise's identity. Morgan and Wong fought against early suggestions of depicting Death as a physical entity, instead embracing the invisible force concept that would become the series' signature.

"What I loved was when James and Glen came and wrote the shooting script is they fought to make sure that there was no death," Reddick says. "And I think their idea to do the Rube Goldberg thing where death kind of uses everyday things around us was genius."

Originally titled Flight 180, the film's memorable name came from producer Craig Perry's friend Brett Leitner. When it opened on March 17, 2000, audiences were captivated by its innovative premise (see the original trailer).

Twenty-five years later, with six films and over $650 million in global box office, what began as a television writing sample has become one of horror's most enduring franchises.

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