Before the first Final Destination movie arrived in theaters, it started life as a proposed pitch for an episode of The X-Files. Final Destination writer Jeffrey Reddick tells that he plotted out the film's initial idea in a script titled "Flight 180🍨", a teleplay which involved an investigation by Mulder and Scully. And when you think about the notion of people cheating death - it's a perfect fit for one of the show's early season standalone episodes.

“I think fans will be most interested in seeing how the kernel of the concept started in 1994," Reddick says. "Death worke💟d differently in this version. Since Mulder and Scully had the believer/skeptic relationship, 🌊I had to keep Death vague enough, but clear enough, to fit the concept and investigation in to a one-hour show."

A massive fan of the show, Reddick wrote the episode "on spec" for an agent back in 1994. That means he wasn't contracted by Fox or X-Files creator Chris Carter to write it, but instead w꧂ent out on a limb in the hopes of it becoming a future episode.

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