SciFi Wire slapped up an interview with FINAL DESTINATION 3 director James Wong in which he drops the skinny on some changes to the ending.
In its rough cut, Final Destination 3 ended after an action sequence at a patriotic fair. “We tested the movie. And I really felt the audience was totally with us, totally with us, until the very end,” Wong said in an interview. “The moment that the movie ended you, actually you heard a couple of people go, ‘Oh.’ Like that. And you know, that’s no good. But I mean, the fact, even before we tested it, as I was cutting the movie with [co-writer] Glen [Morgan] and [producer] Craig [Perry], we knew that [the ending] wasn’t working. It was just too abrupt. … You didn’t know whether they actually escaped death or, you know, what was happening. … It didn’t have a closure. … So, before we went to the test, we had a meeting with Craig and Glen and myself and we talked about what we were going to do, and Craig had an idea where he wanted to bring in the two guys, the sheriff and the [character played by Cook], and they’d be driving somewhere, and they’d get stopped. He wanted to bring those guys in.”
For more on the switcheroo and how it all played out, click here to read the rest of the interview.
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