We rely on their good judgment, expertise, and calm demeanor. These people deal with death on the front lines every day and make choices that can cause people to live or die. Speaking with Digital Spy, Perry said, "We're toying with having it take place in the world of first responders: EMTs, firemen, and police.
In March 2020, Final Destination producer Craig Perry revealed that the new movie would be taking a bit of a different direction but would remain canon to its predecessors rather than being a reboot.
In a new Deadline article about new thriller Bed Rest, it is noted that the film's writer-director Lori Evans Taylor is currently writing Final Destination 6, which would suggest that there has been a change of guard on the writing team for the sequel. At least until 2019, that is, when a re-imagining of the franchise was announced with Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan writing the script and original star Devon Sawa also expressed an interest in returning. At the time, Candyman star Tony Todd said that if the fifth movie was a box office hit, then two more sequels would film back to back, but other than director Steven Quale making brief mention of the possible sequels in August that year, they slipped off radar never to be mentioned again.
There usually comes a time when horror franchises hit a brick wall that they struggle to get over, and with Final Destination 5 in 2011 it looked like the story of a group of teens being stalked by Death had finally met its maker.