Final Destination: The People vs. Death - my pitch for the next movie
The Final Destination: The People vs. Death
The film opens to a news report of a train derailment that occurred a few days ago. The scene then shifts to a distraught woman crying on a city street. She’s on her cellphone, tearfully talking to her father. She tells her father that Death is after her and that she’s next. She tells her father that she loves him just as a rube-gold berg chain begins. The woman notices and drops the phone and rushes toward a hotel and enters the revolving door. The revolving door malfunctions trapping her inside. She tries to push her way out, but the door catches half of her body, which slowly crushes her as it turns. The hotel guests and staff gasp and scream.
Smash cut: Months later in a court room.
The manufacturing company for the revolving door is being sued by the father of the dead woman. The revolving door company is trying to defend itself that everything about their product was perfectly functional and there's no explanation as to why the revolving door malfunctioned so badly that the woman died. Enter, Benoit Blanc ripoff Benny Blank, a charming, southern corporate defense attorney.
On top of being a world-class corporate lawyer, Benny Blank is something of a supernatural historian who is familiar with the strange premonition phenomenons that have occurred over the years. He got the phone records of the dead woman’s last call with her father and he learned that she said that “Death was after her.” Benny Blank looked into her history and discovered that she had bought tickets to the train that derailed killing everyone aboard, then the scene cuts to the opening disaster of a horrific train derailment.
Benny Blank and his team of lawyers go to the train station to review security footage of the doomed train’s departure. In the security footage, they see a commotion on the train, and a group of 50 people leaving the train before its departure, including the woman who would later die in the revolving door incident.
Benny Blank and his team identify all of the survivors who left the train before it departed, and they also learn that nine of them have already died in freak accidents. Benny Blank then reasons before the court that the reason the revolving door killed the poor woman was because she was on Death’s List, not because there was anything criminally negligent with the revolving door company. The court is skeptical of Benny Blank’s argument, so Benny’s team of lawyers have to track down all the survivors of the train derailment to serve as witnesses to Benny’s argument to exonerate the revolving door company of any wrongdoing.
Benny Blank and his team of lawyers track down the survivors, but most of them end of dying in freak accidents as they try to escort them to the court room to provide testimony. Benny Blank manages to secure the last 15 survivors, including the visionary, who is a mentally ill homeless man.
Benny Blank moves the survivors to a secure location, assuring them that they will be safe. When in actuality, Benny Blank has them on a livestream to the court room to help his case. Benny Blank’s goal is to livestream the freak accident deaths of the remaining train crash survivors in a verifiably safe and secure facility. By showing that the survivors are guaranteed to die in freak accidents despite how safe and secure they are, Benny Blank will prove that the revolving door company cannot be held at fault for what is an “Act of Nature.”
After three survivors die, the court room is warming up to Benny Blank’s argument in court, however, the remaining train derailment survivors have learned that Benny Blank doesn’t actually intend to save them from Death, he’s just letting things play out on livestream to bolster his argument in court.
When all hope is lost, the remaining survivors learn from Benny Blank’s own historical research of Death’s List, that if they kill someone they can inherit that person’s lifespan. So in a panic of self preservation, the remaining survivors escape their secure facility and go on a rampage throughout the court room. In the rampage they kill Benny Blank’s colleagues, the defendant, the plaintiff, the prosecutor, the judge, the court US Marshall, the court scribe, many others, and finally Benny Blank himself, who is killed by the visionary.
The movie ends with the remaining survivors celebrating their new chance at life only to SMASH CUT all of them are in prison for murder. One by one, the survivors all start shitting on the visionary for not letting them all die in the train derailment.
THE END!