Charli xcx says she’s been re-watching all the Final Destination movies lately in preparation to see the just-released recent installment, Final Destination Bloodlines, and the budding film mogul was so inspired she pitched her own bratty next chapter to the horror franchise.
“The reason I love these movies is that they really just are about hot people getting killed,” she said in a poolside bikini TikTok video from a Sicily vacation. “You know, there’s no moral backbone to the story, it really is just, ‘they’re hot, they’re cursed and they deserve to die.’”
And here’s the thing: with so many irons currently in the fire in Hollywood, Charli has crunched the numbers on the six-film franchise that has grossed more than $350 million to date and she’s shooting her shot for an all “It Girl” version.
“Basically, it doesn’t matter who’s in these films, they do, like, super-super well,” said Charli. “And so I was thinking, well, shouldn’t there be a sort of ‘it girl’ version of this franchise? You know like, a Final Destination with It Girls. Kind of like, Rachel Sennott, Alex Consani, Gabbriette, Romy Mars, Me, Quenlin Blackwell, Devon Lee Carlson… maybe there’s like a scream queen in there like Jenna (Ortega). Maybe there’s an OG scream queen like Sissy Spacek. And then it’s also directed by like a horror auteur, like Ty West (MaXXXine)?”
The most recent edition in the series in which the cast defy death only to have Death find the most baroque ways to kill them had a franchise-best opening earlier this month when it raked in nearly $52 million in its opening weekend.
Charli also pitched Robert Rodriguez as a possible director, suggesting that the Machete auteur could lean into the “b-movie-ness of it all” and do a version where “everyone is just getting completely massacred. It’s like bloody.” Or, she suggested, she could take a really “big swing” and see if Oscar-nominee David Fincher (Fight Club) would be interested.
“I just think that it would be a good idea and I don’t think… the films wouldn’t have to change their formula. I think the whole point is that they play into the lore. They kind of make fun of their own lore, and I don’t think this one would have to be any different, like I think that’s the point,” Charli said. “It’s really not trying to do anything other than have hot people die in the most brutal ways and play with some unbelievable dialogue.”
To be clear, there doesn’t appear to be any official pitch so far, but in the comments Sennott gave it a thumbs up. “Ok I’m in….” she wrote.
After winning the season with brat summer last year, Charli is doing a hard pivot to movies, with the singer recently lining up a gig to star in and produce the next movie from Japanese horror director Takashi Mike (Yakuza Apocalypse). No additional information was available on that film at press time, but it is slated to be the second project Charli will produce through her Studio365 banner, joining the upcoming A24 drama The Moment, based on her original idea.
In addition, she is slated to appear in Julia Jackman’s period drama 100 Nights of Hero, as well as Pete Ohs and Jeremy O. Harris’ Erupcja and director Daniel Goldhaber’s horror remake of the legendary shock cult film Faces of Death. Other movies on her list include director Greg Araki’s I Want Your Sex and Romain Garvas’ adventure comedy Sacrifice, as well as The Gallerist, in which she’ll appear with Natalie Portman, Ortega and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Charli also makes a cameo and produced the music for Benito Skinner’s new Prime Video comedy, Overcompensating.
