Final Destination 3 (2006) on Netflix
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High school graduate Wendy Christensen envisions the Devil's Flight roller coaster derailing at an amusement park, and persuades several classmates to step off before the ride departs.
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Plot summary
During her Graduation Day party with her school at the local amusement park, 18 year-old Wendy Christensen has a violent premonition of a fatally horrible roller-coaster crash involving her and all her friends. After being let off the coaster along with half the other students the coaster starts. Only when the premonition comes true and everyone on the coaster, including her boyfriend Jason, dies, does Wendy realize that it was just the beginning. Teaming up with fellow classmate Kevin, whose girlfriend also died, they begin to realize that because they escaped their fate they now have to stop Death from it's plan of killing off the survivors and sealing their fate. They use the picture Wendy took at the Amusment Park to find clues to their friends deaths and try to stop them. They also need to find out who was sitting in front of them and help them cheat death, before they're next. Will they intervene or will Death have its way?
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Final Destination 3 (2006)
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- Director James Wong said the opening roller coaster derailment was suggested by New Line Cinema executive Richard Bryner, and denied it was prompted by the 2003 Big Thunder Mountain Railroad derailment at Disneyland that killed a rider.
- The film was meant to be shot in 3D. Co-writer Glen Morgan said the plan was dropped for financial reasons and because he thought fire and blood would not read properly through the red filters of anaglyph 3D glasses.
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Filming wrapped in July 2005, but early audiences disliked the ending, so a new subway-derailment finale was shot that November. Producer Craig Perry wanted A. J. Cook and Michael Landes back from the second film, and dropped both when one of them was unavailable.- The roller coaster crash alone needed 144 visual effects shots. Coaster cars were custom-built and modified, several were hung on bungee cords for the crash, and every actor was matched with a computer-generated double in front of a green screen.
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Kris Lemche's bisection by a cherry picker was built in layers: a plate of the falling machine, Lemche in a partial green-screen suit, then a computer-generated body of his exact height crushed in several animation tests, one of which Wong picked so Lemche could re-perform it.- Alexz Johnson auditioned for Wendy's sister Julie and was leaving when the filmmakers called her back to read Erin's sarcastic lines; her dry delivery, in a rocker jacket and a bad mood, won her the part. Amanda Crew, who had read for Erin, got Julie instead.
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead had already auditioned for Final Destination 2 and missed out. James Wong had pictured Wendy as a "perky blonde" and reshaped the character once Winstead's audition convinced him and Glen Morgan with its emotion.
- Score mixer Bobby Fernandez built a "gore-o-meter" that rated the violence of each death so Shirley Walker's music would match the scene. It is the only film in the series with no commercially released soundtrack.
