Devon Sawa shares photo of infamous ‘final destination’ logging truck
Devon Sawa reminds Final destination fans, they can’t cheat death.
“I was driving behind this wood truck with Christmas trees and thought: I wish you all happy holidays!” Sawa, 45, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, Nov. 30, next to a photo of a logging truck on the highway.
Sawa played the role of Alex in the first film Final destination film, which premiered in 2000. Based on an unproduced spec script from Jeffrey Reddick – and primarily intended for the X files TV series – the film follows a group of acquaintances who try to escape their impending death after Alex has a premonition that warns them of a major disaster. The first horror film spawned four sequels, two comic books and nine novels.
Fans of the franchise will remember the opening scene from 2003 Final destination 2in which the entire cast dies in a multi-car pileup during one of lead actor Kimberly’s (Andrea Joy Cook) premonitions. However, it is the first death that has become an infamous moment in horror film history: a state trooper, driving behind a semi-truck full of giant logs, is killed instantly when a log comes loose and flies through his windshield.
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Following Sawa’s post on Friday, fans immediately took to the comments section to joke about how the terrifying scene has stuck with them for decades. “You single-handedly traumatized an entire generation with a few logs 😩,” one person wrote. Another added: “To this day I don’t drive a logging truck. IYKYK.”
“Anyone driving directly behind that has clearly never seen the final destination… that’s impossible,” a third person wrote, while a fourth person admitted: “It’s never a thought.”
Final destination 2 premiered in 2003 and featured a brand new cast. The film was directed by David R. Ellis, who helmed every installment of the series until his death in 2013. Cook, 45, who starred in the sequel, opened up IGN at the time about why she thinks the death sequences resonate so deeply.
“I definitely think it has disturbed people on another level, because so many people I talked to tell me that they are still afraid of getting into an elevator, or that they trip when they are driving on the highway,” she says . explained. “So I think it affects you on a psychological level and just lingers in the back of your mind.”
Sawa, meanwhile, echoed that sentiment when he recalled reading the opening scene of the first film — in which his character dies in a plane crash — while on a flight from Vancouver to Los Angeles.
“I do most of my reading [on the plane],” he told E 4 in 2000 and called it a “spooky” experience. “I found myself looking out the window every five minutes and every time we encountered a bit of turbulence.”
Then in January 2022 it was revealed that John Watts was set to initiate a restart Final destination 6Sawa said he would tune in.
“I saw the opening weekend of all the sequels to the movie,” he says wrote via X. “This one will be the same. I can not wait.”