Final Destination Bloodlines co-director reveals how the “more emotional” horror sequel’s opening scene is going to make fans “lean forward”: “We switch up a lot of the predictability”

Final Destination: Bloodlines co-director Zach Lipovsky says the upcoming film is a totally different – and unexpected – sequel in the massively popular horror franchise.

“For this film, the first premonition takes place in 1969,” Lipovsky says in the new issue of SFX magazine, which features The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2 on the cover and hits newsstands on Wednesday, April 23. “There are lots of deaths during the premonition, which is what normally happens in the opening sequence of a Final Destination movie, but we then come out of the eye of a different person in the modern day. That’s new. For a lot of fans, I think that’s going to immediately throw them for a loop. It’s going to make them lean forward to try and figure out what’s going on.”