Final Destination 5 Director Boards Found Footage Tornado Movie

Posted by Sean on January 6th, 2012 ? Filed under: Action, Technology
Source: Vulture

With 3-D now essentially a prerequisite for any studio blockbuster, it seems like an appropriate time for the disaster movie genre to make a major comeback. James Cameron?s re-release of Titanic should get audiences warmed up later this year, but there is also a pair of new and ?original? disaster flicks in development at New Line that are aiming to embrace 3-D in a big way. The first, Category Six, is being described as a found footage natural disaster movie about a group of high-school students trying to survive the worst tornado in U.S. history (currently, the Hurricane Wind Scale only goes to Category Five? get it?). It will be composed of fake cell phone and video camera footage, and director Steve Quale is now in final negotiations to direct. Although Final Destination 5 is Quale?s most recent credit, the deal makes even more sense when you realize that he worked with James Cameron as the second unit director on both Avatar and Titanic.

While it sounds like Quale has the technical experience to pull this off, it?s still unclear if 3-D can actually work within the context of a found footage movie (wouldn?t that completely counteract the realism?). Either way, I do think that I?m willing to give it a shot. At the very least, hopefully it will pave the way for a 3-D re-release of Twister as well. I need to know what it?s like to have CG cows being thrown at my face.

The other 3-D disaster movie in the works at New Line is San Andreas: 3D, written by Allan Loeb (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, 21). As you can probably guess, this one is about a massive earthquake that destroys everything between California and Nevada, with a protagonist who embarks on a dangerous road trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco in order to reconcile with his children and estranged wife. There?s no director lined up as of yet, but I think we all know this was tailor-made for one man and one man only. Are you excited about the return of disaster movies in 3-D?

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