Looks like Death’s booked another gig… Final Destination is gearing up for its next chilling chapter, and Belgian filmmaker Michiel Blanchart has been tapped to helm the franchise’s next entry.

The film will follow Final Destination: Bloodlines. The new instalment’s script hails from Lori Evans Taylor, who had co-written Bloodlines with Guy Busick. Craig Perry, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Jon Watts, Dianne McGunigle, and Toby Emmerich are returning to produce the next Final Destination with Warren Zide executive producing. 

Blanchart broke out with his 2020 short film, You’re Dead Helene, which swept up top prizes at the Brussels International Film Festival and Gérardmer Film Festival. That short showcased Blanchart’s penchant for blending horror, comedy, and romance in a mix that would make his style extremely appealing to the Final Destination architects. He went on to direct his debut feature, last year’s thriller Night Call. Blanchart is currently adapting You’re Dead Helene into an English-language feature at Tri-Star Pictures, which he will direct with Sam Raimi producing.

Bloodlines was directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein and followed a college student who returns home to find the one person who can help her with her night terrors and save her family from a horrific fate. Deadline reports that, while Liopovsky and Stein were offered the chance to direct this seventh entry in the franchise, they turned it down.