RIP David R. Ellis

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This is no time for any Final Destination jokes - David R. Ellis, the director of the second and fourth Final Destination movies, as well as Snakes on a Plane and Shark Night, all movies that have brought my silly genre loving brain heaps and heaps of pleasure, was found dead over the weekend in his hotel room in South Africa where he was working on a movie. No word on what it was that got him. He was 60. The second Final Destination movie specifically... y'all know what a touchstone that is round these parts. I was hoping he'd come back to make the sixth FD, since alternating seemed to be the routine. He was in South Africa working on a live-action version of the anime called Kite, about a schoolgirl assassin; it was going to star Samuel L. Jackson. Presumably he was not playing the schoolgirl. I'm glad he wasn't working on his movie called Bad Luck about superstitions coming true with violent results; that would've given too many obit writers cheap material (unlike all the pictures of him wrestling with snakes and sharks that are online already... hey, when I die I hope there's a picture of me sticking my head in a shark's mouth for my obit).

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