Final Destination Bloodlines: Exclusive Clip of Tony Todd's Last Appearance as William Bludworth

Actor Tony Todd, who died past November astatine property 69, makes his past surface quality successful Final Destination Bloodlines wherein the fearfulness icon reprises his franchise relation arsenic the enigmatic William Bludworth. IGN has an exclusive clip from Todd’s country successful the caller film, which tin beryllium viewed via the subordinate supra oregon the embed below.

“It's really a truly peculiar infinitesimal successful the movie. A batch of radical who've seen the movie speech astir however amazed they are, the level of emotion they consciousness during that scene,” Zach Lipovsky, who directed Final Destination Bloodlines with Adam Stein, told IGN past week.

Tony Todd made his archetypal quality arsenic the mysterious undertaker and aboriginal coroner William Bludworth successful the archetypal Final Destination successful 2000. He reprised the relation successful Final Destination 2 and Final Destination 5 (only Todd’s dependable is heard successful Final Destination 3). Bloodlines volition uncover caller accusation astir Bludworth's past.

Bludworth’s relation successful the bid has been to explicate the rules of decease and the consequences of trying to cheat it to the doomed protagonists, and it’s what helium does for the characters successful this exclusive clip from Final Destination Bloodlines. But this clip there’s a poignancy to Bludworth’s inclusion arsenic the ailing Todd appears visibly frail and thin. Working with the filmmakers, Todd helped trade what would beryllium his farewell to the franchise and his fans.

“We're truly grateful that we had the quality to, from the beginning, plan that acquisition for the assemblage with Tony and with each the writers and everybody. We knew helium was sick for rather a portion and helium was highly excited to beryllium successful the movie,” said Lipovsky.

“He was precise grateful for the quality to enactment successful the movie and helium was truthful joyful connected acceptable erstwhile helium was determination and helium was cracking jokes and truly excited to conscionable person his quality to beryllium successful the movie and springiness his quality a batch much backstory. We springiness a batch of answers to who Bludworth is successful the film, which is thing that during the franchise, radical person been clamoring for for a truly agelong time. But we besides knew, similar you said, that this was besides going to beryllium a goodbye of the character. And that's thing that we worked precise intimately with him to fig retired truly the champion mode of doing that due to the fact that these films are astir decease and his mortality was precise contiguous arsenic we were moving with him.”

Lipovsky continued: “One of the unsocial opportunities that came up was arsenic helium is astatine adjacent the extremity of that scene, we asked him to really propulsion distant the publication for a infinitesimal and conscionable talk from the bosom arsenic to everything that helium was reasoning astir arsenic acold arsenic what the movie was about, what the franchise has been about, but besides conscionable what life's astir and what is it each astir successful the end.

And the instrumentality that's successful the movie wherever helium says, ‘Life is precious. Cherish each 2nd due to the fact that you ne'er cognize when.’ And the earnestness that helium says that with [it] each came successful the infinitesimal from him. And I deliberation you truly consciousness that erstwhile you ticker the movie that he's evidently speaking arsenic a quality who knows that their decease is coming, but he's besides speaking arsenic an histrion who's speaking to the assemblage arsenic acold arsenic what's important successful life. And that was a truly almighty infinitesimal connected acceptable erstwhile we filmed that with him.”

(L-R) Owen Patrick Joyner arsenic “Bobby”, Kaitlyn Santa Juana arsenic “Stefanie”, Director Adam Stein, Tony Todd arsenic “William Bludworth”, Teo Briones arsenic “Charlie”, Director Zach Lipovsky, Rya Kihlstedt arsenic “Darlene”, and Richard Harmon arsenic “Erik” successful New Line Cinema’s “Final Destination Bloodlines,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (Photo By Eric Milner)

Fellow manager Adam Stein said that Todd “relished” the accidental to inject immoderate acheronian wit into the country and that those connected acceptable that time were moved to tears watching the terminally sick histrion present what everyone knew would beryllium his last large surface performance.

“A batch of the actors, ourselves, the crew, everyone was tearing up successful that moment, but for him,” Stein recalled. “He benignant of relished it. He had this benignant of mischievous grin and adjacent erstwhile helium delivers that enactment and past says, ‘Good luck’ successful the mode that helium has, that benignant of dark, mischievous mode arsenic helium goes retired the door. He knew precisely what helium was doing and helium relished the accidental to benignant of person that goodbye and person that spot of a wink and person that connection enactment connected aggregate levels. And it was a batch of fun. But I deliberation helium besides truly was excited astir the accidental to person a level to accidental goodbye to his fans.”

Final Destination Bloodlines opens successful theaters connected May 16th.