huge changes to Death’s rules, its design, and more.

Directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, Final Destination Bloodlines follows Stefani (Kaitlyn Santa Juana), a college student who is suddenly haunted by a horrible nightmare of her family’s deaths. Stefani returns home to ask her grandmother, Iris (Gabrielle Rose), for help, as she went through a very similar situation in the 1960s. Because of that, Death is now going after Stefani’s family, as they should never have been born. Final Destination Bloodlines, then, will take the audience back to the 1960s, and this is what risks making the saga’s timeline more complicated.

Final Destination Bloodlines’ 1960s Flashbacks Can Make The Timeline Even More Complicated

Final Destination Bloodlines Is Making Some Big Changes & Reveals

In the 1960s, Iris had a vision of a horrifying accident at the high-rise restaurant she was at, where the dance floor would break and many people (she included, of course) would die. Iris warned the attendees and managed to save some of them, but Death acted differently than in past Final Destination Bloodlines trailers that everything started with Iris, potentially linking all previous movies to the 1960s incident.

While this would answer all the biggest mysteries of the Final Destination franchise, these flashbacks to the 1960s and their potential link to past movies could complicate the timeline. The biggest surprise in the franchise so far was Final Destination 5, believed to be a sequel until its final scenes revealed it was actually a prequel, with the final two survivors boarding Flight 180. This means that the entirety of Final Destination 5 is set in 2000, but it doesn’t feel like that at all.

Now, Final Destination Bloodlines is going back to the 1960s to offer a potential explanation for all the visions and accidents in the franchise, with the characters possibly being descendants of the survivors of the 1960s incident. This would change the entire Final Destination saga, changing the viewing experience of the first five movies, but it will also raise questions about the timeline, making it unnecessarily complicated.

Final Destination Bloodlines Will Most Likely Reference Other Events In The Timeline

Final Destination Bloodlines Hints At A Major Connection Between Movies

Whether there’s a massive connection between all Final Destination movies or not, Bloodlines will reference the events of the past movies. In the trailers, Iris gives Stefani a notebook full of notes and newspaper clips, all of them about the accidents shown in the past movies: the bridge collapse, Flight 180, the pile-up on U.S. Route 23, the carnival, and the car race. It’s highly likely that this notebook includes notes on what happened to the survivors of all those incidents, giving Stefani an idea of Death’s design and rules.

Stefani is also seen studying a family tree of all survivors of the 1960s incident, through which it could also reference the past movies, if it’s true that all characters are linked to that accident. Final Destination Bloodlines might be about to change the entire franchise, which could be good as it would solve all the mysteries about it, but at the same time, it’s at risk of creating timeline issues and confusion – but hopefully, it will know how to fit the 1960s incident and its consequences within the known timeline.