High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Final Destination (also known as Final Destination 4) is a 2009 3D supernatural-horror film written by Eric Bress and directed by David R. Ellis, both of whom also worked on Final Destination 2. Released on August 28, 2009, it is the fourth installment to the Final Destination film series, and the first of which to be shot in HD 3D. It is considered to be the final installment of the series. The film is set ten years after the explosion of Flight 180, nine years after the pile-up on Route 23, and four years after the derailment of the Devil's Flight roller coaster. Nick O' Bannon (Bobby Campo) is at the McKinley Speedway watching a race with his friends Hunt Wynorski (Nick Zano), Janet Cunningham (Haley Webb) and his girlfriend Lori Milligan (Shantel VanSanten).