Warning: This article contains spoilers for Final Destination Bloodlines.The Skyview incident in Final Destination Bloodlines complicates the movie’s relationship to the previous five films in the horror franchise. Every installment features a character having a premonition of a terrible disaster, only to thwart it and have Death itself reclaim the survivors’ lives in a variety of intricate and bloody ways. In the case of the new installment, that premonition is a terrifying incident that was foreseen by a young Iris (Brec Bᴀssinger) at the Space Needle-esque Skyview restaurant, which involved a crumbling glᴀss dance floor, a huge explosion, and sections of the building falling onto the street below.

The fact that Iris was able to save so many lives by preventing this catastrophe resulted in Death taking a long time to work its way through the survivors in order, leading to it also destroying the direct descendants of any survivors who lived long enough to build families. Because of the sheer number of people involved in this incident, including Bloodlines‘ protagonist, college student Stefani Reyes (Kaitlyn Santa Juana), and her extended family, it seems possible that the incident could have also connected the other victims in the previous Final Destination movies, or at least those who had premonitions.

No, Everyone With Premonitions In Final Destination Isn’t A Descendant Of A Skyview Survivor

This Would Be Impossible Given Franchise Canon

One clue that could have pointed to the Skyview incident connecting all of the previous characters who had premonitions in the franchise is the fact that 2025’s Final Destination Bloodlines shows Stefani having nightmares about her grandmother Iris’ premonition from 50 years ago. This new wrinkle could have pointed to the fact that all the premonitions from the franchise were linked to Iris’ original premonition, and the catastrophes that were averted because of them were part of Death’s design to continue eliminating Skyview survivors and their descendants, only for Death to become more vengeful when it was defied yet again.

However, this theory is unsupported by the events of Bloodlines as well as the canon of the previous movies. This includes the fact that Stefani never has premonitions of her own, making her entirely unique among the protagonists of the franchise. Therefore, it seems more likely that Death was handling its victims from the previous movies at the same time as it was trying to take down Iris. It had ample time to seek new victims in the 2000s while the older Iris repeatedly survived its attempts to kill her, preventing it from going after other Skyview survivors for decades.

Final Destination Bloodlines Did Consider Connecting Everything Back To Skyview

The Filmmakers Ultimately Decided Against It

In addition to the Skyview theory being unsupported by the canon of the franchise, it has officially been denied by the filmmakers behind the movie as well. During an interview about Final Destination Bloodlines with ScreenRant‘s own Ash Crossan, directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein (who worked from a screenplay penned by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor based on a story by Busick, Evans Taylor, and Jon Watts) revealed that having the Skyview incident connect the previous victims from the supernatural slasher franchise was one idea that was considered, but ultimately rejected. Read an excerpt from the interview below:

Stein: [Having the Skyview connect all the other characters] meant that their parents had to have died before they died.

Lipovsky: [That’s something that audiences] don’t see in the previous movies… Everyone who dies in our movie [is] contained within just the Skyview [incident.]

Stein: [However, Iris’ notebook reveals] research on all those other movies.

It makes sense that this idea was considered during the pre-production process, because the completed movie contains quite a few notable elements that link it to previous installments, including referencing Final Destination 2‘s survivor Kimberly Corman (A. J. Cook) and providing an explanation for the presence of one of the franchise’s only major returning characters, mortician William Bludworth (Tony Todd). This approach is likely one reason that the Skyview theory may have seemed to hold so much water at first glance. However, as the directors themselves revealed, the idea was ultimately unsustainable when it came to Bloodlines‘ Final Destination connections.

The Problem With Everyone In Final Destination Being Connected To Skyview

It Doesn’t Square With The Original Movies

As Adam Stein pointed out, the biggest hurdle to having the Skyview incident connect Death’s previous victims from the Final Destination franchise is the fact that the bloodline concept means that their parents would have had to die before them. Although parents rarely factor into the franchise as major characters, they are frequently present, especially in the first movie, which primarily revolved around the deaths of high school students, the majority of whom lived with their parents. Final Destination 3 also centered on high school students, though the other installments generally followed characters who were of college age or older.

Even if the characters potentially connected to the Skyview incident in Final Destination Bloodlines were limited just to those who have premonitions throughout the franchise, this theory would not hold water. While the mother of Final Destination 2‘s Kimberly Corman died before the events of the movie, both parents of Final Destination‘s Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) are seen and both parents of Final Destination 3‘s Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) are mentioned, and none of them are killed before Death hunts down their children following the characters’ premonitions, of the Flight 180 plane crash and a roller coaster disaster respectively.

It’s Better For The Final Destination Franchise That The Skyview Connection Didn’t Work

It Would Have Limited The Series

While using the Skyview incident to connect all of the previous Final Destination deaths could have been an exciting reveal in the moment, it would have put unnecessary limitations on the franchise as a whole. Iris including the events of those movies in her notebook is a solid solution, providing a satisfying nod to franchise lore but preventing the overall mythology of the series from feeling too confined. By having previous premonitions and deaths be disconnected, this confirms that Death’s design is a global operation that exists throughout time rather than being linked to a single event from the 1960s.

The Skyview connection would also have prevented Final Destination Bloodlines from getting a sequel, as the only victim remaining after the deaths of Stefani and Charlie (Teo Briones) was William Bludworth. Additionally, because Tony Todd died shortly after filming his Bludworth scene in the movie, he is unable to reprise his role in any follow-ups. Because the new installment has been mᴀssively successful, earning more than $100 million worldwide and outgrossing Final Destination 2 in its opening weekend alone, it will very likely continue to receive new installments, proving that further emphasizing the Skyview connection would have been a mistake.