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Toronto Sun
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Sun
'Final Destination Bloodlines' breaks fiery world record for oldest stuntperson set ablaze
Yvette Ferguson, 71, set ablaze in the film's opening scene Get the latest from Mark Daniell straight to your inbox Brec Bassinger as Iris in "Final Destination Bloodlines." Photo by Warner Bros. Pictures Final Destination Bloodlines directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein aren't popping the champagne just yet, but the Vancouver-based filmmaking duo is certain they've set a new world record. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. 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Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account At the start of the latest entry in the ongoing horror franchise, veteran stuntwoman Yvette Ferguson is set ablaze during the film's fiery opening scene. In a video call from Los Angeles, B.C.-born Lipovsky says the stunt team is talking to the Guinness Book of World Records to try and get the feat recognized as breaking the world record for oldest person on fire. 'The whole stunt community in Vancouver came out to see this. We did it twice. It was a full-body burn and Yvette was 71 when we did it. When we cast her, she was so excited … They've been checking with Guinness to get it verified,' he says w hile sitting alongside his co-director. It turns out Ferguson came from a family of stunt people and being set on fire, but it was something she hadn't done in her career. 'She said, 'Everyone in my family has been burned, but I've never been burned,'' Lipovsky says laughing. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'It's a long process, but they're in contact with them,' Stein adds. Yvette Ferguson in 'Final Destination Bloodlines.' Photo by Warner Bros. Pictures Now playing in theatres, Final Destination Bloodlines arrives 14 years after the last entry in the horror series that has terrified moviegoers since the first movie was released in 2000. The new film follows Stefani (played by Langley, B.C.'s Kaitlyn Santa Juana), a college student who inherits her grandmother Iris' eerie knack for predicting when bad things are about to happen. It turns out grandma (who is played in the movie's 1969-set opening scene by Stargirl's Brec Bassinger) is able to forecast with Rube Goldberg-like precision the many ways death can — and will — come knocking. 'Death is coming for our family,' Iris warns her granddaughter. Franchise stalwart William Bludworth (played by the late horror movie icon Tony Todd, who died last November) warns Stefani that death won't stop until all the members of her family are six-feet under. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Kaitlyn Santa Juana in a scene from 'Final Destination Bloodlines.' Photo by Warner Bros. Pictures Despite being away from the big screen for over a decade, Stein thinks audiences have never tired of the Final Destination series because they effortlessly show how things we take for granted in our everyday lives can quickly lead to bloody mayhem. 'It brings your anxieties to life. It says, 'What if your anxieties, those things that nag at you, were actually real and deadly?' I think that's why it has stuck with so many people over the years,' Stein says. As filmmakers, he and Lipovsky — who met in 2007 on the set of the Fox reality show On the Lot and together also directed the 2018 sci-fi thriller Freaks and Disney's 2019 action comedy Kim Possible — say that the Final Destination movies are unique among other horror films. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'They don't have a visible antagonist,' Stein says. 'There's no guy in a mask with a knife that goes around killing people or a monster in the woods. The deaths that are onscreen are created by the filmmaking … It's really the filmmaking that's coming for the characters, and as directors that was such a delightful opportunity.' Lipovsky says the pair are aiming to leave viewers traumatized by the time the last member of Stefani's family meets their demise. 'When things that happen in real life that aren't even part of Final Destination have weird circumstances around them, people say, 'That's a Final Destination situation.' That's a testament to the sticking power of these movies,' he says. Directors Adam Stein and Vancouver's Zach Lipovsky on the set of 'Final Destination: Bloodlines.' Photo by Eric Milner / Warner Bros. Pictures So a family barbecue turns into a bloodbath and an attempt by one family member to cheat death at a hospital ends up as a sequence that will disturb anyone with an MRI appointment coming up. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. They even find ways to turn a head-clearing jog on a residential street into a deadly situation. 'When we were brainstorming ideas, we kept thinking about things we could ruin for people,' Lipovsky says. 'After you see this movie, every time you see a lawn mower or cup full of ice … even a penny; you'll never look at those things the same way again .' Because the beginning scenes for Final Destination movies are always memorable (Stein cites Final Destination 2's gory log truck sequence as a classic), the twosome wanted to craft something that would leave a lasting impression. Set atop the fictional Skyview Tower, Iris gets her first hunch that something is awry. She can see a chain reaction that's about to happen when the glass starts to crack under the weight of all the guests and the structure is about to go up in flames. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'Final Destination: Bloodlines,' the sixth in the popular film franchise, opens with a 15-minute long spectacular and mayhem-filled scene set in a fancy restaurant atop a tower. Photo by Courtesy of Warner Bros. Picture Lipovsky says the idea for the horrific episode came from a visit he made to Toronto's CN Tower. 'I took a friend of mine who had lived in Toronto their whole life and had never been up the CN Tower because he was afraid of heights. I used him as inspiration for all the different things that (could go wrong),' he says. 'It took awhile to figure out all the details,' Stein adds. 'Basically, we wanted to tap into a visceral fear of heights. It was really cool to be able to bring that to the screen and make people feel like they were falling off this building, 400 feet in the air.' Final Destination Bloodlines is now playing in theatres. mdaniell@ Read More
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Woman who broke record for oldest person set on fire for a movie speaks in interview
HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – Final Destination: Bloodlines is not yet in theaters, but it has already broken a record for the oldest person to be set on fire for a movie. 71-year-old stunt performer Yvette Ferguson spoke in an interview to Brandon Bartlett for Eyewitness News about her record breaking experience. You can view the full interview in the video player above. Final Destination: Bloodlines will be in theaters May 16. Eyewitness News. Everywhere you are. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Geek Tyrant
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES Directors Broke the World Record for Oldest Person Set on Fire — GeekTyrant
When it comes to topping death, Final Destination: Bloodlines isn't playing it safe. As the sixth film in the long-running horror franchise, it doesn't just aim to deliver creatively grisly kills, it sets actual fire to the record books. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, co-directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein revealed that one of the film's craziest moments involved lighting 71-year-old former stuntwoman Yvette Ferguson on fire. Lipovsky said: 'We lit so many different people on fire, including breaking the world record for oldest person on fire with Yvette Ferguson, who did that full body burn in the silver dress. That was the oldest person ever on fire, on camera.' Ferguson, who came out of retirement to play the ill-fated Mrs. Fuller, gets torched during the movie's bonkers opening sequence, which is set in a 1960s restaurant atop the fictional 400-foot Skyview Tower. With glass floors and a panoramic view, the towering deathtrap is a callback to real-world structures like Toronto's CN Tower except this one's about to be consumed by fire, falling debris, and panic. And Mrs. Fuller is center stage in a fiery exit. Brec Bassinger, who plays Iris in the film was on set for Ferguson's historic burn. She said: 'Oh, I was on set when they lit her on fire! I was within her vicinity. God, it was beautiful. Everyone started clapping…She was so pumped.' According to the directors, that wild opening disaster scene, which features the franchise's signature domino effect chaos took nearly half the film's production time to shoot. It involved seven separate sets and an actual 100-foot-diameter replica of the restaurant, built to be both stunning and safe for a massive fire sequence. Lipovsky said: 'We had to build the thing basically out of concrete. It was not only built to look incredibly cool, but it was built to be incredibly robust, as far as having huge amounts of fireproofing. It was so hot that you couldn't be in that set. You had to be standing really far away.' The scale was so crazy that even the floors had to be tilted and rotated mid-shoot. Bassinger herself was hoisted into the air on wires as the restaurant 'split in half' on screen. 'The risk of literally falling, honestly, helped with acting because at some point, I wasn't even acting,' she admitted. It's this no-holds-barred, practical-effects-first approach that defines Final Destination: Bloodlines. Lipovsky added: 'One of the special things about Final Destination that I don't think really exists anywhere else is that you get that scale. You get that disaster movie Hollywood feeling, but at an extremely R-rated tone, which is very rare. You get that Roland Emmerich spectacle, but you see the people explode and light on fire and falter in their deaths, and you don't cut away.' If death is inevitable, at least Final Destination knows how to make it wildly entertaining. Final Destination: Bloodlines opens in theaters on May 16.
