Trivia / Final Destination 5

• California Doubling: Set in upstate New York, but filmed in Vancouver.
• Cast the Expert:
  • Ellen Wroe is a gymnast like her character Candace.
  • During the gymnastics practice scene, Canadian Olympian Brittany Rogers plays the gymnast on the balance beam when Candace is on uneven bars.
• Deleted Scene: The Blu-Ray contains two alternate death scenes.
  • Isaac gets ignited by the flames because he's standing in the puddle of liquid, as opposed to crushed by the falling Buddha statue.
  • Olivia gets both eyes burned out by the laser instead of one, but still falls to her death.
• Fake American: Jacqueline MacInnes Wood (Olivia) and Brent Strait (Roy) are Canadians, while Arlen Escarpeta (Nathan) is Belizean.
• Lying Creator: The Circle of Fate special feature claims that some of the actors from the first film were brought back to recreate the original premonition. This is false; they just use archive footage.
• Playing Against Type: David Koechner, known for often playing comedic, screwball characters, heavily tones down the Slapstick here to play a hardass Mean Boss. He still gets funny moments here and there though.
• Tuckerization: Peter Friedkin is named after William Friedkin, Candace Hooper after Tobe Hooper and Olivia Castle after William Castle.
• What Could Have Been:
  • One planned death would have taken place at a water park.
  • Ashley Tisdale auditioned for the part of Candice.
    • Hilarious in Hindsight when you consider that she eventually went on to portray a character of the same name on Phineas and Ferb, just with a slight spelling difference (her character on that show spells it with an A instead of an I).

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