![]() “I went home and I typed up a sequel idea,” he said of the pitch that, five years later, got him a career-launching internship at New Line. Reddick, whose other writing credits include “Tamara” (2005), “Day of the Dead” (2008), Netflix’s “Samurai Rabbit” and his own 2020 directing debut, “Don’t Look Back,” saw 1984’s “ Nightmare on Elm Street” from a friend’s dad’s pickup truck at a drive-in theater when he was 14. “I have had people, especially LGBTQ people, come up to me at conventions and say, ‘When I was younger, I was going to kill myself, and then I found out that the guy who wrote my favorite movie was gay,’” Reddick, 54, says, visibly moved, as we sit in the courtyard of his West Hollywood home. Many fans of the series, for instance, have no idea that the creator of “Final Destination” is a biracial gay man shaped by his upbringing in the Kentucky Appalachians. Over time, Reddick’s own relationship with the film has deepened in unexpected ways, he said ahead of a recent “Final Destination” screening and Q&A at Beyond Fest, in partnership with the American Cinematheque. ![]()
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