Final Destination 6 directors secured the job by faking their own deaths

The Final Destination franchise is a pop culture phenomenon and is based on a very simple concept: death comes looking for those who have escaped it.

So it perhaps made sense that the directors of the upcoming film, Final Destination 6, managed to secure their jobs by faking their own deaths.

As revealed by The Hollywood Reporter, Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein were up for the job already but sealed the deal with an elaborate zoom stunt that saw them fake their own deaths.

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According to the news outlet, the pair pitched their ideas for the upcoming film before the fireplace behind them burst into flames on Zoom.

While the duo were able to extinguish the fire, no doubt to the relief of their interviewers, in a true scene straight of Final Destination, the ceiling fan went on to fall down and appeared to decapitate one of the directors.

Now that's a Zoom call we wish we'd seen.

While the executives and producers were initially freaked out by the stunt, which was achieved using a combination of pre-recorded footage and effects, once they realised what was going on, they burst into laughter.

As reported by Yahoo! News, the pair will be directing the film more than ten years on from the release of Final Destination 5 in 2011, and if their interview is anything to go by, they are going to kick it out of the park.

It took the best part of a year to find a director for the reboot because there were so many people interested in the job.

"It was rare that something big was available and ready for a reboot," one insider said.

It was previously suggested that there wouldn't be a sixth instalment in the franchise because of the elaborate accident scenes.

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Tony Todd, the actor behind Final Destination's William Bludworth, said they cost too much to make.

"I am [surprised] but I know why there hasn't been [another film]," the 67-year-old said.

"It's really an expensive film to shoot. Just getting whatever accident set pieces, like for example part two with the whole traffic accident, that took a good five weeks to shoot and at least 20 million bucks."

Over two decades have now passed since the first Final Destination film, and the world is a very different place from what it was in 2000, and we imagine this will likely be reflected in the sixth, long-awaited instalment.

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