Spider-Man Director Jon Watts Joins Final Destination 6

After helming what’s now one of many prime 10 highest-grossing movies of all time, director Jon Watts will try to cheat loss of life. He’s written a narrative remedy and are available on board to provide Final Destination 6, the most recent movie within the hit horror franchise, which is able to go direct to HBO Max.

The Hollywood Reporter broke the information and stories that Lori Evans Taylor and Guy Busick (the brand new Scream) are present penning the script. A director has but to be hooked up and there’s no phrase what particularly Watts’ story is, however you’d think about earlier rumors of the movie being set on this planet of first responders is not within the playing cards.

The unique Final Destination was launched in 2000 and was a shock hit. It adopted a gaggle of highschool college students who exited a airplane when considered one of their pals had a imaginative and prescient of it crashing, just for that to come back true and loss of life to comply with as much as acquire. Four different sequels follows, all of which comply with that premise, a lot of which have change into cult favorites. The fifth movie was launched in 2011 and since then there was plenty of discuss bringing the sequence again. At one level, Saw writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan even wrote a script, however Watts’ thought is prone to have wiped all of that clear.

After directing two small unbiased movies, Watts was employed by Sony and Marvel to make Spider-Man: Homecoming which was launched in 2017. Since then, he’s targeted solely on Spider-Man, additionally helming 2019’s Far From Home and 2021’s No Way Home which, as you’re seemingly conscious, is now the third highest-grossing Marvel movie ever, behind solely Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. That additionally places it sixth all time within the U.S. and eighth all-time worldwide. And it’s nonetheless in theaters.

That sort of success normally opens any door you need in Hollywood however Watts’ path is already sort of set. He’s set to write down and direct an untitled thriller for Apple starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, and Marvel Studios has retained his companies to reboot Fantastic Four. Those are some very massive tasks so it’s a must to guess Watts is a extremely massive Final Destination fan to place that franchise on his to-do listing as effectively.

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