It turns out Death doesn’t take a holiday—at least not with box office numbers this good for New Line.
Following the franchise’s record-breaking release of Final Destination Bloodlines in May, co-writer Lori Evans Taylor (Bed Rest, Cellar Door) has signed on to pen the seventh installment in the supernatural horror film series that launched in 2000.
Craig Perry, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Jon Watts, Dianne McGunigle and Toby Emmerich are returning to produce with Warren Zide executive producing.
Co-written with Guy Busick from a story by Jon Watts and directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, Final Destination Bloodlines saw a $51 million franchise-best opening, ultimately surpassing $285M at the global box office. The franchise’s overall $983 million haul makes it New Line’s third biggest horror franchise after The Conjuring and It.
Taylor is repped by WME, Kaplan/Perrone, and McKuin, Frankel and Whitehead. She previously wrote the screen adaptation of Carla Norton’s The Edge of Normal, which wrapped in spring 2025 with Chloë Grace Moretz starring and Carlota Pereda directing.
Kaitlyn Santa Juana in ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ (2025)
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Each movie in the Final Destination franchise begins with someone predicting a mass-casualty event, saving a group of unlucky few, only for them to go on to die horrific deaths. Marking the franchise’s first sequel in 14 years, Bloodlines serves as a partial prequel, harkening back to an incident in 1969.
Perry, who has produced every movie in the franchise, previously explained to Deadline how Bloodlines opens the franchise up to new possibilities.
“That’s one of the things that Jon Watts, by bringing in the idea of starting in the ’60s and jumping forward 50 years, I think has liberated us creatively to be able to go to a lot of different places in time and to make connections that we wouldn’t have been able to do otherwise,” he said. “And I think that expansion, that sort of satellite view of the plan, I think is going to hopefully allow us an opportunity in the future to have even more interesting and creative deaths for the fans to enjoy.”
Perry added, “That’s why this franchise is weirdly evergreen, because we don’t have necessarily continuing characters, so you can jump around. And the whole point of it is that it’s relatable, they’re in environments and situations that you might find yourself in.”