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February 3, 2006 —

James Wong, director of the upcoming horror sequel Final Destination 3, told SCI FI Wire that they had to shoot a new ending featuring a subway crash after the original one tested poorlyand that they had hoped to bring back characters from Final Destination 2 in the new coda. The elaborate subway crash sequence was shot in November 2005, long after the initial photography wrapped in the summer of 2005.

The new ending was supposed to have featured characters from Final Destination 2, which starred Michael Landes as sheriff's deputy Thomas Burke and A.J. Cook as Kimberly. But filmmakers couldn't make the schedules work, and the idea was scrapped, Wong said.

In its rough cut, Final Destination 3 ended after an action sequence at a patriotic fair. "We tested the movie. And I really felt the audience was totally with us, totally with us, until the very end," Wong said in an interview. "The moment that the movie ended, you actually ... heard a couple of people go, 'Oh.' Like that. And you know, that's no good. But I mean, the fact, even before we tested it, as I was cutting the movie with [co-writer] Glen [Morgan] and [producer] Craig [Perry], we knew that [the ending] wasn't working. It was just too abrupt. ... You didn't know whether they actually escaped death or, you know, what was happening. ... It didn't have a closure. ... So, before we went to the test, we had a meeting with Craig and Glen and myself, and we talked about what we were going to do, and Craig had an idea where he wanted to bring in the two guys, the sheriff and the [character played by Cook], and they'd be driving somewhere, and they'd get stopped. He wanted to bring those guys in."

Read more of the interview, by clicking the link below.