Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Wendy Christensen: You`re not a senior!
Julie Christensen: And what are you gonna do about it, Miss "cutest-couple rah-rah"? Wendy Christensen: [sees Julie and her friends walk ahead of her] Excuse me?
[Julie, Amber and Perry turn around]
Wendy Christensen: You`re not a senior!
Julie Christensen: And what are *you* gonna do about it, Mrs. ``cutest couple rah-rah``?
Wendy Christensen: Mom know you`re here?
Julie Christensen: You are a complete bitch if you tell her!
Wendy Christensen: [flashes her camera] Proof where you were.
Julie Christensen: Take a shot of this!
[sticks both her middle fingers at Wendy]
Kevin Fischer: Get the fuck outta here, McKinley!
Ian McKinley: Hey, I`m just celebrating our town`s tricentennial.
Wendy Christensen: You followed me!
Ian McKinley: Oh! You are paranoid. But, hey I saw what happened. You`re next right? You`re the end of it, aren`t you? Man, I`d be paranoid too.
Wendy Christensen: You didn`t even believe me!
Ian McKinley: Yeah, well, seeing is believeing.
Wendy Christensen: Then you have to stay away from me!
Ian McKinley: Have to? Wow, that`s extreme. Oh, no way. Do I cause your death? Just like you caused Erin`s? You have a vision? Was I in it? Was I in a picture? Just tell me how to start it off! Let`s get this over with!
Wendy Christensen: You`ll save me if you just stay away! Then it`ll all be over!
Ian McKinley: What do I care? It skipped me. For me, it is over. I`m not dying. I`m not dying!
[Fireworks shoot at Ian but they miss him and hit the base of the cherry picker]
Ian McKinley: You see? I`m not gonna die! It`s you, Wendy! You`re dead!
[cherry picker falls on Ian and cuts him in half vertically]
Lewis Romero: [choose Your Fate Version] Wendy? Kevin? What the fuck you doing here?
Kevin Fischer: Is there something wrong?
Wendy Christensen: The train...
Kevin Fischer: Oh Shit! Not again!
Kevin Fischer: It`s never better staying ignorant. Willful ignorance is surrending control.
A Sultan in the weight room: What the fuck is a Bruin anyway?
Devil`s Voice: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! You may NEVER return... from "Devil`s Flight"! Try not to scream! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
Wendy Christensen: You didn`t even believe me...
Ian McKinley: Yeah, well, seeing is believing.
Erin: So let me get this straight; I`m gonna OD on nail polish, and Ian is gonna be embarrassed to death?
Wendy Christensen: What happened to willful ignorance?
Kevin Fischer: Hey, I`m full of shit, all right? I never thought I could see my own death before it happened Wendy.
Ian McKinley: Equal... in death`s eyes? All of us? How can you say that? Dude, think it through: Charlie Manson, made it to 70, Osama, still kicking. Pimps, vice presidents, walking around, all the atrocities they`ve committed, they`re alive and well. These two girls, never done shit to anybody, they don`t get to make it to 18. Where`s the fucking equality in that?
Lewis Romero: Man these things really suck man. Fucking boring.
[to Kevin]
Lewis Romero: Look, if you ever have to come to my funeral, bring me a PSP or something. That way I`ll have something to do.
Kevin Fischer: So what, is he going to get crushed by a giant Spongebob?
[pause]
Kevin Fischer: Spongebob lives underwater!
Wendy Christensen: It is so sad you know that!
Wendy Christensen: We need to know who was sitting behind you on the rollercoaster.
Erin: Ok, who was sitting behind us on the rollercoaster? Oh! Oh wait, Uh, wasn`t it that one guy guy who got voted most likely to become manager of Red Lobster?
Ian McKinley: Oh, no, know what? God, I remember. It was this guy, uh, black cloak, I couldn`t see his face, but uh, the ride attendant, did take his sickle, if that`s helpful, in any way.
Ashley Freund: That was like so nice of us!
Kevin Fischer: [about his death] Is it bad? Is it painful, or embarrassing? I mean, there`s nothing like up my ass, is there?
Ashlynn Halperin: Oh my god, Ashley! You`re so totally winning!
Wendy Christensen: [to Kevin] If it weren`t for you and Jason being friends, and me and Carrie being friends, we wouldn`t have even talked. We don`t even like each other.
Kevin Fischer: What`s wrong?
Wendy Christensen: It`s nothing. It`s just that I`m going to be worrying about you every second while you`re gone.
Kevin Fischer: Why would you worry about me? We don`t even like each other, remember?
[they hug]
Ian McKinley: Ok. Ok, what if, for example, the last in line were to make the utilitarian choice. Kill themselves. Well, wow, that`s pretty much gonna ruin any plan deaths put in motion. And even better, I think that`s gonna save, five skipped lives. Any takers?
[Erin, Kevin, and Wendy look at each other, and then look to the ground in silence]
Ian McKinley: I didn`t think so.
Erin: Death is fucking complicated.
Kevin Fischer: Fuck you, Ben Franklin.
Jason Wise: [to Wendy] I`ll meet you at the end.
Wendy Christensen: The people who got off the roller coaster are still going to die. Unless we can find a way to stop it.
Frankie Cheeks: [Frankie is recording Ashley and Ashlyn with his video camera] You guys are smoking hot!
Ashley Freund: Get out Frankie!
Ashlyn Halperin: Yeah! Why are you even here?
Ashley Freund: Yeah! You graduated like, 2 years ago!
Kevin Fischer: [Julie is trying to avoid Kevin. He finally catches up to her] Julie! No wait wait! You in danger! I`m trying to explain something to you.
Julie Christensen: Let me explain this to you!
[Julie sticks both of her middle fingers up at Kevin]
Lewis Romero: [his last lines] Whoo! What I tell you Kevin, huh? Fuck death! Baby I just win! That`s all I know how to do Kevin! I just win!
Lewis Romero: Speaking of a vision, I had one and it`s going just as I saw it. thirty-five high school games without an injury, USA Today All-American...
Kevin Fischer: second team...
Lewis Romero: So, I`m about to play for the Sultans!
Kevin Fischer: But the Bruins passed on you...
Lewis Romero: MAN FUCK THE BRUINS!
[rest of Sultans in the weight room repeat the phrase]
Lewis Romero: God damn right!
Ian McKinley: Haha! You see? I`m not gonna die! It`s you Wendy! You`re dead!
Erin: Hey, after I restock this stuff that these pinhead customers can`t manage to return to the shelves themselves, we`ll roll out of here, okay?
Ian McKinley: Rightio, babe.
Wendy Christensen: It`s Wendy and Kevin.
Erin: Shit! You scared the shit out of me!
Kevin Fischer: Once you let us in, we`ll tell you.
Erin: [on the walkie-talkie] Zip, it`s Pip. Come over here. You are gonna trip when you hear this.
Ian McKinley: [answers back on his walkie-talkie] Well paint me intrigued, Pip. I`m on my way.
Carrie Dreyer: [Talking to Wendy about Kevin] I`m breaking up with him. A couple of weeks after graduation. I`ve been wanting to for a while. Don`t tell anyone.
Wendy Christensen: [after Kevin tells the roller coaster attendant that the first rows are good for him, Wendy, Jason, and Carrie] Wait... no... no please. I`m sorry. I can`t sit in the front. I cannot see the tracks. I`ll freak.
Kevin Fischer: Okay... uh... well Carrie will sit in the back. All right, babe?
Carrie Dreyer: Ugh, why me? Because we`re girls? Fuck that. I`m going to Berkeley, and I won`t get to do this for a while. I`m sitting in the front.
Wendy Christensen: Jason, just go.
Jason Wise: You can`t sit alone in the back.
Kevin Fischer: All right, you know what? We can settle this like your old man. How about that? Hmm?
[Pulls out a coin]
Kevin Fischer: Call it.
Jason Wise: Heads.
Kevin Fischer: [Flips the coin and it lands on heads] Shit!
[Jason and Carrie laugh]
Kevin Fischer: All right, fine. Well, see ya. Go ahead. Bye, babe.
Kevin Fischer: [to Wendy about Carrie] I was going to ask her to marry me.
Ian McKinley: I cause your death? Just like you caused Erin`s?
Ashley Freund: [to Wendy] Wen! So we`re ready for graduation tonight? We`re going to the tanning salon afterwards, and we are so totally cool if you wanna come-with.
Ashlynn Halperin: Totally!
Ashley Freund: and just like talk, here`s my cell. I already have your number.
Wendy Christensen: Julie? I need, I need help. I have such guilt over Jason. I should never have let that ride go. You know usually I`m such a control freak but I didn`t do enough to stop it, I should have done everything I could to stop it. And I wish I could have another chance, but I never can. I don`t wanna someday feel that way about you, Julie. Y`know I can`t talk to Mom and Dad. You`re all I have left. You think when I get a place you could come stay with me for while?
Julie Christensen: You know I will! You take this, and I`ll come get it when I visit you. And hey, on your end, do you mind if I borrow the school camera for graduation tonight?
Wendy Christensen: Ah, sure, as long as you promise to bring it back to school on Monday.
Julie Christensen: Done!
Wendy Christensen: Oh, the battery is pretty low, so why don`t you finish getting ready and I`ll charge it up a bit for you.
Julie Christensen: Cool.
Frankie Cheeks: Oh! Where you guys are right now if you raise your hands and just... Ha - cup them slightly it`ll look like you`re holding the devil`s balls.
Ashley Freund: And we`d wanna do that why?
Frankie Cheeks: When else you ever gonna see a dick that big?
Ashlynn Halperin: I`m looking at one right now.
Ashlynn Halperin: Shit. I forgot my iPod.
Ashley Freund: Sucks bitch. They`ve got CDs.
[Ashley gets on one of the tanning booths and checks out the CDs on the shelf]
Ashley Freund: Ew, Celine? Britney? Dude, are we like the only cool people that come here or what?
Ashlynn Halperin: Yeah!
Ashlynn Halperin: [before her death] It`s way too warm in here now, huh?
Ian McKinley: Oh my god guys, what`s going on?
Erin: A rollercoaster is just elemental physics, a conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy
Ian McKinley: Ok. Let`s go with what you guys are saying: let`s just say, you know, that Death does have a conscious plan, and that it`s been set into motion. Great. So, Newton`s Third Law of Motion and well, look, I`m just guessing that it goes for Death, too, when he`s working in our world. Newton says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So, that means that if Death has taken action, so can we. And that that action may thwart Death`s intent.
Kevin Fischer: You`re being a fucker, but go on.
Jason Wise: What`s wrong?
Wendy Christensen: Um. I was having that feeling like Deja Vu. You know, except for, something that hasn`t happened yet.
Kevin Fischer: Jay. Come on man let`s go!
Jason Wise: [turns to Kevin] Yeah yeah. Hold on.
Jason Wise: [back to Wendy] What are you weirded out by the ride?
Wendy Christensen: [smiles and looks down]
Jason Wise: Hey look I know you. And I`m thinking that maybe you`re nervous about this roller coaster because they say that the real fear with these rides, is the feeling of having no control. Everyone imagines stuff when they get scared. But it never turns out to be the way they imagined. Never.
Wendy Christensen: [quietly] Okay.
Wendy Christensen: [smiles and kisses him]
Wendy Christensen: [in Wendy`s premonition] Erin! Hold on! Hold on!
Erin: [Ian and Erin are holding onto the seats] I can`t.
[Ian falls so Erin lets go also]
Kevin Fischer: You know what? You`re a real piece of shit Lewis. Fuck you.
Lewis Romero: Fuck moi? No fuck you.
[Kevin grabs his arm and Lewis slaps Erin in the face]
Erin: Agh.
Jason Wise: [Ian gets up and grabs Lewis, who is already in a fight with Kevin] Dude, let me off!
[the fight between Lewis, Ian, and Kevin continues]
Jason Wise: Dude let me OFF!
Ashley Freund: This is so high school.
Ashlynn Halperin: Out.
[Ashlyn and Ashley leave their seats]
Frankie Cheeks: Wait where are you ladies going?
Erin: [trying to get Ian up from the fight] Ian!
Jason Wise: [while Security guards grab Wendy, Kevin, Ian, Erin, and Lewis] Dude let me off, I got to see if she`s okay.
[crowd starts chanting, "Aye, oh, let`s go!"]
Jason Wise: DUDE LET ME OFF!
[worker signals other roller coaster worker to start the ride]
Jason Wise: Let me off!
[ride starts]
Jason Wise: Dude that`s my girlfriend!
Wendy Christensen: [holds camera] These are for the yearbook and I have to turn them in tomorrow to make a deadline and, like, I doubt if a shot of Stacy Kobayashi`s camel toe is gonna make it in there.
Kevin Fischer: Whew, I`d buy two.
[first lines]
Wendy Christensen: Oh my god!
[last lines]
Wendy Christensen: It`s not working! Somebody stop the train!
Singer On The Train: [singing] There is someone, walking behind you. Turn around, look at me. There is someone, watching your footsteps...
Trivia
Kris Lemche had to take forklift driving lessons for two days to learn how to drive one.
Helga Ungurait, the script supervisor, referred to Texas Battle as "the king of adding the word `fuck`", for ad-libbing the word so much.
Ashley Tisdale tried out for the role of Erin but lost it. Vanessa Hudgens auditioned for the role of Julie, but lost to Amanda Crew.
In Japan, the film is renamed "Final Deadcoaster".
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# The scene taking place in the tanning booth was a closed set. Only the camera operators were in the same room with Chelan Simmons and Crystal Lowe and black curtains were draped to keep onlookers out.
Ryan Merriman wore chest padding and elbow pads when he knocks Kris Lemche out of the way of falling plywood, in addition to their stunt doubles having to film it.
Amanda Crew originally auditioned for Erin and Alexz Johnson originally auditioned for Julie, but the actresses ended up switching parts.
Near the end when on the light rail, the train number is 081. When reflected in the mirror as 180 it is the flight number in Final Destination (2000).
As revealed in Death`s Design: Making `Final Destination 3` (2006) (TV), the actors in the roller-coaster scene had to ride the roller coaster various times to get it right.
Ashlyn and Ashley listen to the song "Love Rollercoaster" in the tanning salon, which refers to the roller-coaster that should have killed them.
In the original script, Ian McKinley was a female character who tried avoiding her boyfriend. Erin was originally a male character.
Ian McKinley was originally called Logan and Frankie Cheeks was named Scotty.
The title was previously known as Cheating Death: Final Destination 3 and Final Destination 3-D. 3-D was considered for the film, but it was deemed too expensive and complicated.
Ian`s last name, the high school`s name and the town`s name of McKinley, refer to President William McKinley, who was assassinated.
Vanessa Hudgens auditioned for the role of Julie but the part went to Amanda Crew instead.
The truck that backs into them at the drive-through is the same "drink responsibly" truck in the opening scene of Final Destination 2 (2003).
# References to presidential assassinations include the name of the town and high school (McKinley), and the names of the subway stations in the final scene (Booth, Oswald). Looking at the map, you can also see Ruby Drive, 63rd and Hidell stations. Oswald used the name "Alek J. Hidell" and was killed by Jack Ruby.
The song played during Ashley and Ashlyn`s funeral is the same song as the one played during the memorial service of Flight 180 in Final Destination (2000).
It took 20 takes for the hammer to fall on the forklift gearshift correctly in the home improvement store scene.
The home improvement store scene was mostly shot in an actual store. They were only allowed to film after the store was closed and had to leave the store the exact way they found it. While different parts of the scene were being filmed, other crew members were often putting objects back on the shelves. In addition, they had to turn objects around to hide brand names, bring in other brand names, and put things in the way to block names from appearing due to the store not wanting their name or products being associated with a "teen death movie".
The cast members on the roller-coaster had to ride the coaster 26 times on the same night in order to shoot the film`s main premonition scene.
Most of the cellphones shown in the movie are Motorola Razr V3s.
Tony Todd, who played the mortician in the first two films, provides the voice of the devil above the entrance to the roller coaster. He also provides the speaker`s voice saying, "This is the end of the line" in the subway towards the end of the movie.
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# The ending was re-shot, reportedly because of unfavorable reactions at preview screenings. This also happened with the two previous films in the series.
As in the first two movies in the series, the names of several characters are references to horror film makers. The characters "Wendy and Julie Christensen" are named after Benjamin Christensen, director of Häxan (1922); the character "Erin Ulmer" is named after Edgar G. Ulmer; the character "Lewis Romero" is an homage to the horror directors Herschell Gordon Lewis and George A. Romero; the character "Jason Robert Wise" is a reference to Robert Wise, director of The Haunting (1963/I); the character "Carrie Dreyer" is named after Carl Theodor Dreyer, director of Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (1932); the character "Ashley Freund" is an homage to cinematographer/director Karl Freund and the character "Ashlyn Halperin" is named after Victor Halperin, director of White Zombie (1932).
Much of the on-ride footage was filmed on the "Corkscrew" at Playland, part of the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver, Canada. The actual ride has an initial drop of 65ft and turns back around on itself before entering the double corkscrew, whilst the drop in the movie is 200ft, followed by a double corkscrew.
The song playing on the radio before Lewis` death in the weight room is "Killing Time" by (Hed) P.E.
One of the first times that the director and DVD team collaborated from inception to DVD release. Film was shot with the DVD interactive features in mind so many scenes were filmed several times with varying outcomes.
After re-shooting the ending in Winter of 2005, production of this movie finally wrapped on 31 January 2006. The movie opened on 10 February 2006, only 10 days after the movie was finished.
During the filming, Alexz Johnson broke her nose.
On the DVD release, Kristen Cloke, wife of screenwriter Glen Morgan and star of the first Final Destination (2000), provides the voice of the narrator on the "Choose Their Fate" feature.
Tony Todd is the only actor that has been in all three Final Destination movies.
The writers paid tribute to the band Christopher Ward in each installment of Final Destination.
While filming the scene in front of the Drive-Thru, a 900lb hydraulic cylinder that was being used to assist in the truck stunt broke free and went whistling across the set, knocking over both the "a" and "b" cameras. Not much damage was done to them, as they are tough German cameras.
Originally in development as a 3-D film, with the title `Final Desination 3-D`.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Wendy Christensen) can`t drive so a stand-in had to be used when she pulled out of the school car park.
SPOILER: Depending on the `Choose Their Fate` feature, either Ashley or Ashlyn get a slightly worse death than the other. In the original scene where they are both burned, Ashlyn gets the worse death as Ashley inadvertently breaks the glass on her tanning bed due to struggling and thus stops the heat. But Ashlyn`s bed continues to pump out heat, scorching her worse than Ashley. In the alternate scene, Ashlyn simply gets knocked out by the shelf whereas Ashley is trapped and burned in addition to being electrocuted later on.
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# SPOILER: Originally, the character Frankie Cheeks was not meant to die. Rather than being fatally struck from the back of the head by a spinning engine propeller as shown in the final film, he looks at his rear-view mirrors and narrowly escapes his supposed death himself with only a broken neck. He is then later arrested by police and is charged for indecent exposure, due to the police seeing his camera having photos of "too revealing" girls.
SPOILER: The tanning bed scene was based on four urban legends. One is the legend of a bride-to-be, in some versions a sorority girl, who wanted the perfect tan but ended up cooking her insides by over-using tanning beds. The second and third legends involve the Ohio Players`s hit song "Love Rollercoaster", which plays during the tanning scene. One of the legends goes that the scream heard between the first and second verses of the song is that of a woman being murdered while the song was being recorded. The other goes that the scream is that of the woman who modeled for the album cover art, because her flesh was torn off when the acrylic substance ladled over her naked body (to make it look like she was dripping with honey) was clumsily removed by crew members. The fourth urban legend is the one of the newlywed bride playing a game of hide-and-seek on her wedding day, who dies when the trunk she hides in locks with her inside. In some versions of the legend, something falls on the trunk, preventing the bride from being able to open it from the inside, much like the way the shelf fell onto the tanning beds, jamming them closed.
SPOILER: According to a newspaper article you find through the "Choose Their Fate" feature Kimberly Corman and Officer Thomas Burke died when they ran into each other at Goldstein`s Hardware. A Camaro (owned by Evan Lewis, victim in FD2) rolled down a hill and crashed into the front of the store. The two attempted to escape from the rear only to meet their fate at the hands of a woodchipper. Kimberly`s coat got caught, Thomas attempted to save her, both were pulled into the woodchipper. The woodchipper was owned by Roger Gibbons (whose son died at the end of FD2).
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Alexz Johnson
(as Erin)
with Kris Lemche
(as Ian McKinley)
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