{
  "id": "final-destination",
  "title": "Final Destination",
  "description": "Death’s connected screen stories, licensed prose, comics and alternate interactive outcomes. Calendar contradictions remain visible; a film’s release year is not automatically its story year.",
  "continuities": [
    {
      "id": "main",
      "label": "Films and licensed connected stories",
      "note": "All six films share a history. Licensed original prose and comics remain inclusively assumed canon where no specific contradiction is established; exact original interiors still need inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "variants",
      "label": "Alternate endings and promotional stories",
      "note": "Interactive alternate outcomes and original promotional scenarios do not replace the released film outcomes."
    }
  ],
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "blood-origin",
      "title": "Final Destination Bloodlines — Sky View origin",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "Late 1960s; intended 1969",
      "order": 1969,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "Iris experiences a premonition at a tower restaurant.",
      "note": "Institutional guide / directors identify 1969. A reported 1968 newspaper conflict remains to compare; late-1960s rail expresses the supported period without hiding the contradiction.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "lsf",
        "directors",
        "bloodlines"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "Late 1960s",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0F3H21BYM",
      "productName": "View on Amazon",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding film linked by Amazon’s original editorial; rent / buy / region and present availability may vary.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "five",
      "title": "Final Destination 5 — bridge disaster",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. 1999–2000; two weeks before Flight 180",
      "order": 1999.3,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2011",
      "description": "Office workers escape a collapsing bridge.",
      "note": "Prequel relation verified by Amazon. Original memorial and later boarding-pass years conflict; the two-week interval / original props still require direct reinspection. Sort before Flight 180 without splitting the connected films.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "amazon-films",
        "calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 1999–2000; two weeks before Flight 180",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09PRF18RR",
      "productName": "View on Amazon",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding film linked by Amazon’s original editorial; rent / buy / region and present availability may vary.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "one",
      "title": "Final Destination — Flight 180 and survivors",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. May 1999–2000; conflicting year props",
      "order": 1999.36,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2000",
      "description": "Alex’s premonition saves several passengers from Flight 180.",
      "note": "Reported first-film memorial says 1999; 5’s prop says 2000. Preserve this narrow conflicting window rather than silently turn a release year into a confirmed story date.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "amazon-films",
        "calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. May 1999–2000; conflicting year props",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09KL6HL3B",
      "productName": "View on Amazon",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding film linked by Amazon’s original editorial; rent / buy / region and present availability may vary.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "one"
    },
    {
      "id": "five-flight",
      "title": "Final Destination 5 — Flight 180 conclusion",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "est. May 1999–2000; two weeks after bridge disaster",
      "order": 1999.36,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2011",
      "description": "The surviving travelers board the already familiar flight.",
      "note": "Overlaps the first movie’s opening; not a separate later flight. The prequel’s core narrative stays at the bridge position.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "amazon-films",
        "calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. May 1999–2000; two weeks after bridge disaster",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09PRF18RR",
      "productName": "View on Amazon",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding film linked by Amazon’s original editorial; rent / buy / region and present availability may vary.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "one-paris",
      "title": "Final Destination — Paris epilogue",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "Six months after Flight 180; est. late 1999–2000",
      "order": 1999.86,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2000",
      "description": "Three survivors reunite in Paris.",
      "note": "Major time jump is separated from the initial disaster. Exact calendar inherits the conflicting Flight 180 year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "Six months after Flight 180; est. late 1999–2000",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09KL6HL3B",
      "productName": "View on Amazon",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding film linked by Amazon’s original editorial; rent / buy / region and present availability may vary.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "two",
      "title": "Final Destination 2",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "One year after Flight 180; est. 2000–2001",
      "order": 2000.36,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2003",
      "description": "Kimberly prevents drivers from entering a highway pileup.",
      "note": "One-year anniversary is explicitly confirmed in Amazon’s editorial. Its 2003 theatrical release does not put the story three years after the first.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "amazon-films",
        "calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "One year after Flight 180; est. 2000–2001",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09PWT7DM9",
      "productName": "View on Amazon",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding film linked by Amazon’s original editorial; rent / buy / region and present availability may vary.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "two"
    },
    {
      "id": "three",
      "title": "Final Destination 3 — graduation disasters",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. 2005 graduation season",
      "order": 2005.42,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2006",
      "description": "Wendy’s roller-coaster warning changes her classmates’ fates.",
      "note": "Reported graduating class and six-year first-film reference support 2005. Exact original dates need viewing; not automatically set in release-year 2006.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "fd3-date",
        "fd3",
        "calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 2005 graduation season",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09PR7DKG6",
      "productName": "View on Amazon",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding film linked by Amazon’s original editorial; rent / buy / region and present availability may vary.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "three"
    },
    {
      "id": "three-train",
      "title": "Final Destination 3 — subway epilogue",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "Five months later; est. late 2005",
      "order": 2005.87,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2006",
      "description": "A subway journey reunites surviving classmates.",
      "note": "Five-month jump separated. No exact November day forced from an uninspected calendar reconstruction.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "fd3"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "Five months later; est. late 2005",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09PR7DKG6",
      "productName": "View on Amazon",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding film linked by Amazon’s original editorial; rent / buy / region and present availability may vary.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "four",
      "title": "The Final Destination — speedway disaster",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. late 2000s; contemporary-era setting",
      "order": 2009,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2009",
      "description": "A speedway warning saves a small group from a grandstand disaster.",
      "note": "Contemporary reconstruction supports a late-2000s window. Precise May 2009 date remains a secondary lead, not an inspected prop.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "fd4",
        "calendar",
        "amazon-films"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. late 2000s; contemporary-era setting",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00BWUZJU8",
      "productName": "View on Amazon",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding film linked by Amazon’s original editorial; rent / buy / region and present availability may vary.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "four-cafe",
      "title": "The Final Destination — café epilogue",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "Two weeks later; est. late 2000s",
      "order": 2009.04,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2009",
      "description": "The survivors discuss what really happened.",
      "note": "Later aftermath retained as a segment, not another independently counted movie.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "fd4"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "Two weeks later; est. late 2000s",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00BWUZJU8",
      "productName": "View on Amazon",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding film linked by Amazon’s original editorial; rent / buy / region and present availability may vary.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "blood",
      "title": "Final Destination Bloodlines — Stefanie’s family",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. mid-2020s; contemporary main narrative",
      "order": 2025,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "Stefanie follows recurring nightmares back to her grandmother.",
      "note": "Modern family generations follow the 1960s origin. Reported 2024 / 2025 props and elapsed dialogue need direct comparison; no exact year silently selected from the release.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "bloodlines",
        "calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. mid-2020s; contemporary main narrative",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0F3H21BYM",
      "productName": "View on Amazon",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding film linked by Amazon’s original editorial; rent / buy / region and present availability may vary.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "novel-one",
      "title": "Final Destination I: The Movie",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "est. May 1999–2000; expanded film story",
      "order": 1999.36,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2006",
      "description": "Expanded prose retelling of the corresponding film.",
      "note": "Same-story format adaptation beside its source movie, even though published years later. Earlier / later nested scenes and prose-only details require full interior audit.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "novel-one",
        "rhodes"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. May 1999–2000; expanded film story",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844163172",
      "productName": "View exact novel edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact ISBN 1844163172; Amazon product identity not independently verified.",
      "actionLabel": "View exact novel edition",
      "storyGroup": "one"
    },
    {
      "id": "novel-two",
      "title": "Final Destination II: The Movie",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "One year after Flight 180; est. 2000–2001",
      "order": 2000.36,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2006",
      "description": "Expanded prose retelling of the corresponding film.",
      "note": "Same-story format adaptation beside its source movie, even though published years later. Earlier / later nested scenes and prose-only details require full interior audit.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "novel-two",
        "rhodes"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "One year after Flight 180; est. 2000–2001",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844163180",
      "productName": "View exact novel edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact ISBN 1844163180; Amazon product identity not independently verified.",
      "actionLabel": "View exact novel edition",
      "storyGroup": "two"
    },
    {
      "id": "novel-three",
      "title": "Final Destination III: The Movie",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "est. 2005; alternate script-based details",
      "order": 2005.42,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2006",
      "description": "Expanded prose retelling of the corresponding film.",
      "note": "Same-story format adaptation beside its source movie, even though published years later. Earlier / later nested scenes and prose-only details require full interior audit.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "novel-three",
        "rhodes"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 2005; alternate script-based details",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844163199",
      "productName": "View exact novel edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact ISBN 1844163199; Amazon product identity not independently verified.",
      "actionLabel": "View exact novel edition",
      "storyGroup": "three"
    },
    {
      "id": "dead-reckoning",
      "title": "Final Destination: Dead Reckoning",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "est. 2004",
      "order": 2004,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2005",
      "description": "A singer’s warning saves people from a collapsing club.",
      "note": "Candidate placement from secondary chronology, cross-checked for licensed edition identity. Broad contemporary overlap is intentional; exact internal dates / flashbacks remain uninspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "book-dead-reckoning",
        "calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 2004",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1844161706",
      "productName": "Final Destination: Dead Reckoning — Natasha Rhodes",
      "productMatch": "Exact retailer title / author / ISBN independently checked against author / licensed edition; author website transposes two ISBNs.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "destination-zero",
      "title": "Final Destination: Destination Zero",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "est. 2005",
      "order": 2005,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2005",
      "description": "A journalist investigates survivors of a fatal attack.",
      "note": "Candidate placement from secondary chronology, cross-checked for licensed edition identity. Broad contemporary overlap is intentional; exact internal dates / flashbacks remain uninspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "book-destination-zero",
        "calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 2005",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844161714",
      "productName": "View exact licensed novel",
      "productMatch": "Correct David McIntee edition, ISBN 1844161714; no unrelated movie product substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View exact licensed novel",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "end-line",
      "title": "Final Destination: End of the Line",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "est. 2005",
      "order": 2005,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2005",
      "description": "Visiting students encounter a fatal New York transit disaster.",
      "note": "Candidate placement from secondary chronology, cross-checked for licensed edition identity. Broad contemporary overlap is intentional; exact internal dates / flashbacks remain uninspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "book-end-line",
        "calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 2005",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844161765",
      "productName": "View exact licensed novel",
      "productMatch": "Correct Rebecca Levene edition, ISBN 1844161765; no unrelated movie product substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View exact licensed novel",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "dead-hand",
      "title": "Final Destination: Dead Man’s Hand",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "est. early 2000s; after Flight 180",
      "order": 2001,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2005",
      "description": "A Las Vegas elevator disaster leaves survivors under suspicion.",
      "note": "Candidate placement from secondary chronology, cross-checked for licensed edition identity. Broad contemporary overlap is intentional; exact internal dates / flashbacks remain uninspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "book-dead-hand",
        "calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. early 2000s; after Flight 180",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844161773",
      "productName": "View exact licensed novel",
      "productMatch": "Correct Steven A. Roman edition, ISBN 1844161773; no unrelated movie product substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View exact licensed novel",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "looks",
      "title": "Final Destination: Looks Could Kill",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "est. 2005",
      "order": 2005,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2005",
      "description": "A yacht-disaster survivor makes a dangerous bargain.",
      "note": "Candidate placement from secondary chronology, cross-checked for licensed edition identity. Broad contemporary overlap is intentional; exact internal dates / flashbacks remain uninspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "book-looks",
        "calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 2005",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844163164",
      "productName": "View exact licensed novel",
      "productMatch": "Correct Nancy A. Collins edition, ISBN 1844163164; no unrelated movie product substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View exact licensed novel",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "senses",
      "title": "Final Destination: Death of the Senses",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "est. 2003",
      "order": 2003,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2006",
      "description": "A prevented murder changes the fate of a killer’s intended victims.",
      "note": "Candidate placement from secondary chronology, cross-checked for licensed edition identity. Broad contemporary overlap is intentional; exact internal dates / flashbacks remain uninspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "book-senses",
        "calendar",
        "mcdermott"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 2003",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844163857",
      "productName": "View exact licensed novel",
      "productMatch": "Correct Andy McDermott edition, ISBN 1844163857; no unrelated movie product substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View exact licensed novel",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "zero-victorian",
      "title": "Destination Zero — Victorian London narrative",
      "type": "Novel segment",
      "date": "est. 1888",
      "order": 1888,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2005",
      "description": "An older London disaster parallels the contemporary investigation.",
      "note": "Major historical storyline indexed separately, not hidden inside the modern date. 1888 is a secondary original-text lead pending a legal full interior.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "book-destination-zero",
        "calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 1888",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844161714",
      "productName": "View containing novel",
      "productMatch": "Same Destination Zero book; not a separate publication.",
      "actionLabel": "View containing novel",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "spring",
      "title": "Final Destination: Spring Break #1–5",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "est. spring 2006; modern-era overlapping window",
      "order": 2006.25,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2006–2007",
      "description": "A Cancun hotel premonition interrupts a holiday trip.",
      "note": "Connected five-issue run grouped. 2006 story date is a secondary lead; actual publication stretched into 2007. Full lettered pages unavailable, so exact dates and nested jumps remain open.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "comic-license",
        "spring-inventory",
        "spring-story",
        "calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. spring 2006; modern-era overlapping window",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=655251",
      "productName": "View exact licensed issues",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding five-issue series; collection ISBN 9780978687458 / Sacrifice contents need further product verification.",
      "actionLabel": "View exact licensed issues",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sacrifice",
      "title": "Final Destination: Sacrifice",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Modern era; exact calendar unverified",
      "order": 2005,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2006",
      "description": "Jim’s visions intertwine with a survivor’s fate.",
      "note": "DVD-exclusive mini-comic is an original connected story, not a movie adaptation. Only edition / opening-line inventory inspected; no exact event calendar guessed.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "sacrifice"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "Modern era; exact calendar unverified",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.comics.org/issue/2099650/?display=list",
      "productName": "View exact exclusive comic inventory",
      "productMatch": "Original Circuit City 2006 DVD comic; standard current DVD editions do not necessarily include it.",
      "actionLabel": "View exact exclusive comic inventory",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "choices",
      "title": "Final Destination 3 — Choose Their Fate",
      "type": "Interactive film",
      "date": "est. 2005; alternate graduation-story outcomes",
      "order": 2005.42,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2006",
      "description": "Viewer choices alter deaths and surviving characters’ outcomes.",
      "note": "Same-story interactive variant beside the source event. Newspaper / alternate endings do not establish the theatrical outcome of II or III.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "interactive",
        "interactive-review",
        "fd3-date"
      ],
      "continuity": "variants",
      "railLabel": "est. 2005; alternate graduation-story outcomes",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://shop.factoryrecords.com/UPC/794043103728",
      "productName": "View interactive DVD edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact two-disc Thrill Ride edition with Choose Their Fate; standard stream is not a verified substitute.",
      "actionLabel": "View interactive DVD edition",
      "storyGroup": "choices"
    },
    {
      "id": "new-romance",
      "title": "New Romance — Miles Fisher music-video story",
      "type": "Music video",
      "date": "1990s-style school era; parody calendar unstated",
      "order": 1990,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2011",
      "description": "A school sitcom setting becomes a chain of deadly accidents.",
      "note": "Creator describes an original viral promotion, not the actors’ film characters living a second plot. Full video / exact original upload link still to inspect.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "music"
      ],
      "continuity": "variants",
      "railLabel": "1990s-style school era; parody calendar unstated",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://collider.com/miles-fisher-jacqueline-macinnes-wood-final-destination-5-interview/",
      "productName": "Read creator / original video information",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding creator discussion; no unrelated product or guessed YouTube ID.",
      "actionLabel": "Read creator / original video information",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "maze",
      "title": "Final Destination: Death’s Playground",
      "type": "Live attraction",
      "date": "Modern-era scenario; exact calendar unverified",
      "order": 2000,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2026",
      "description": "Visitors escape a premonition’s catastrophe and enter Death’s design.",
      "note": "Licensed operator premise reported for two Six Flags parks. Full scene scripts not inspected; 2026 is performance year, not fictional date.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "maze"
      ],
      "continuity": "variants",
      "railLabel": "Modern-era scenario; exact calendar unverified",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://attractionsmagazine.com/final-destination-six-flags-magic-mountain-great-adventure/",
      "productName": "Read licensed attraction premise",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding operator-supplied announcement; no tickets purchased or current admission price asserted.",
      "actionLabel": "Read licensed attraction premise",
      "eraWindow": true
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "amazon-films",
      "title": "Amazon — six exact Prime Video movie destinations",
      "url": "https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/final-destination-prime-video",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Original Amazon editorial identifies all six films and provides each exact corresponding digital product URL. Also explicitly identifies 5 as a prequel and 2 as one year after the original. Current prices, stock and regional access not asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "bloodlines",
      "title": "Warner Bros. — Bloodlines original synopsis",
      "url": "https://www.finaldestinationmovie.net/synopsis/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "College student Stefanie investigates her family’s danger. Publication / cinema release in 2025 is not itself proof of the modern story year."
    },
    {
      "id": "lsf",
      "title": "Indonesian Film Censorship Institution — Bloodlines film guide",
      "url": "https://lsf.go.id/en/film/final-destination-bloodlines/1343",
      "kind": "Primary institutional classification / viewing guide",
      "note": "Institutional guide explicitly identifies the older narrative as 1969; not a full prop-by-prop inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "directors",
      "title": "Bloodlines directors — period / story discussion",
      "url": "https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/final-destination-bloodlines-directors-adam-b-stein-zach-lipovsky-major-change-how-franchise-works-exciting",
      "kind": "Primary creator interview / secondary host",
      "note": "Creator discussion places the initial premonition in 1969. Conflicting reported newspaper props remain to compare against the finished film."
    },
    {
      "id": "calendar",
      "title": "Chronology / reported prop contradictions",
      "url": "https://finaldestination.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline",
      "kind": "Secondary / specialist scene inventory",
      "note": "Secondary research leads: first-film 1999 vs fifth-film 2000 props; candidate modern prose dates and 1888 nested tale. No claim to have inspected the original full films or books."
    },
    {
      "id": "fd3",
      "title": "Final Destination 3 — scene / interval inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Destination_3",
      "kind": "Secondary / scene inventory",
      "note": "Reports five-month interval before the subway epilogue. Exact graduation and subway date props require direct movie inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "fd3-date",
      "title": "Final Destination 3 — school-year inventory",
      "url": "https://finaldestination.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Destination_3",
      "kind": "Secondary / scene inventory",
      "note": "Reported 2005 graduating class and six-year Flight 180 interval. Keep year estimated pending direct original scene check."
    },
    {
      "id": "fd4",
      "title": "The Final Destination — scene inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Destination",
      "kind": "Secondary / scene inventory",
      "note": "Contemporary-era story and later cafe epilogue. Original exact prop dates not inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "rhodes",
      "title": "Natasha Rhodes — original novels and film adaptations",
      "url": "https://natasharhodes.wixsite.com/official-author-site/final-destination-movie-series",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Author verifies original club-disaster novel and adaptations I / II. Page transposes the ISBNs of Dead Reckoning and I: exact edition identity must be cross-checked rather than copied blindly."
    },
    {
      "id": "black-flame",
      "title": "Black Flame — publication inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Flame_%28publisher%29",
      "kind": "Secondary / bibliography",
      "note": "Cross-check of six original novels, three movie novelizations and unpublished Wipeout. Publication dates are not substituted for fictional dates."
    },
    {
      "id": "book-dead-reckoning",
      "title": "Black Flame / Google Books — Dead Reckoning",
      "url": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844161706",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Exact licensed edition: Natasha Rhodes, ISBN 1844161706. Bibliographic / publisher blurb inspected; complete narrative interiors unavailable. Not a wiki-reprint book."
    },
    {
      "id": "book-destination-zero",
      "title": "Black Flame / Google Books — Destination Zero",
      "url": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844161714",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Exact licensed edition: David McIntee, ISBN 1844161714. Bibliographic / publisher blurb inspected; complete narrative interiors unavailable. Not a wiki-reprint book."
    },
    {
      "id": "book-end-line",
      "title": "Black Flame / Google Books — End of the Line",
      "url": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844161765",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Exact licensed edition: Rebecca Levene, ISBN 1844161765. Bibliographic / publisher blurb inspected; complete narrative interiors unavailable. Not a wiki-reprint book."
    },
    {
      "id": "book-dead-hand",
      "title": "Black Flame / Google Books — Dead Man’s Hand",
      "url": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844161773",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Exact licensed edition: Steven A. Roman, ISBN 1844161773. Bibliographic / publisher blurb inspected; complete narrative interiors unavailable. Not a wiki-reprint book."
    },
    {
      "id": "book-looks",
      "title": "Black Flame / Google Books — Looks Could Kill",
      "url": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844163164",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Exact licensed edition: Nancy A. Collins, ISBN 1844163164. Bibliographic / publisher blurb inspected; complete narrative interiors unavailable. Not a wiki-reprint book."
    },
    {
      "id": "book-senses",
      "title": "Black Flame / Google Books — Death of the Senses",
      "url": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844163857",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Exact licensed edition: Andy McDermott, ISBN 1844163857. Bibliographic / publisher blurb inspected; complete narrative interiors unavailable. Not a wiki-reprint book."
    },
    {
      "id": "mcdermott",
      "title": "Andy McDermott — original author bibliography",
      "url": "https://www.andy-mcdermott.com/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Author acknowledges rare Final Destination novel Death of the Senses. Withdrawal does not make a previously published novel an unmade story."
    },
    {
      "id": "comic-license",
      "title": "Original Zenescope / New Line licensing announcement",
      "url": "https://icv2.com/articles/comics/view/7946/zenescope-launches-final-destination-comic",
      "kind": "Primary publisher announcement / trade host",
      "note": "Contemporaneous licensing announcement confirms five-issue original Spring Break series. Early planned collection dates differ from the later actual issue schedule."
    },
    {
      "id": "spring-inventory",
      "title": "Spring Break — actual five-issue publication inventory",
      "url": "https://www.comics.org/series/59080/details/timeline/",
      "kind": "Secondary / edition inventory",
      "note": "Actual March 2006–August 2007 issue schedule, not a fictional year range. No full legal lettered preview recovered."
    },
    {
      "id": "sacrifice",
      "title": "Sacrifice — exact exclusive DVD comic inventory",
      "url": "https://www.comics.org/issue/2099650/?display=list",
      "kind": "Secondary / original edition index",
      "note": "24-page mini-comic, 16 narrative pages; Circuit City / New Line DVD exclusive, July 25 2006. One original story, not an invented webcomic #0. First line alone does not establish full story date."
    },
    {
      "id": "spring-story",
      "title": "Spring Break — licensed issue premise",
      "url": "https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=655251",
      "kind": "Secondary / retailer publisher solicitation",
      "note": "Retail edition reproduces original solicit: Cancun hotel disaster and survivors. Covers and summaries do not equal interior inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "interactive",
      "title": "Final Destination 3 — exact interactive DVD edition",
      "url": "https://shop.factoryrecords.com/UPC/794043103728",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Two-disc Thrill Ride edition, UPC 794043103728. Choose Their Fate changes outcomes; ordinary digital film listing is not a verified match for this bonus."
    },
    {
      "id": "interactive-review",
      "title": "Original interactive DVD — reviewed narrative branches",
      "url": "https://www.soundandvision.com/content/dvd-review-final-destination-3",
      "kind": "Secondary / original disc review",
      "note": "Contemporary review verifies additional interactive story choices. Alternate deaths / newspaper outcomes are not automatic main-film canon."
    },
    {
      "id": "music",
      "title": "Miles Fisher — narrative promotional music video interview",
      "url": "https://collider.com/miles-fisher-jacqueline-macinnes-wood-final-destination-5-interview/",
      "kind": "Primary creator interview / secondary host",
      "note": "Cast member describes New Romance, conceived to promote 5. Saved by the Bell-style story does not feature the same film characters. Full original video playback remains open."
    },
    {
      "id": "maze",
      "title": "Six Flags — licensed 2026 maze announcement / premise",
      "url": "https://attractionsmagazine.com/final-destination-six-flags-magic-mountain-great-adventure/",
      "kind": "Primary operator statement / trade host",
      "note": "Operator-supplied Death’s Playground premise: visitors escape a premonition disaster. Neither performance year nor promotional art fixes story year; complete scripts uninspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "novel-one",
      "title": "Black Flame / Google Books — Final Destination I: The Movie",
      "url": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844163172",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Exact licensed prose edition. Original full text not inspected; novel II credits Nancy A. Collins / Natasha Rhodes. Script-based differences are not forced into the screen outcome."
    },
    {
      "id": "novel-two",
      "title": "Black Flame / Google Books — Final Destination II: The Movie",
      "url": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844163180",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Exact licensed prose edition. Original full text not inspected; novel II credits Nancy A. Collins / Natasha Rhodes. Script-based differences are not forced into the screen outcome."
    },
    {
      "id": "novel-three",
      "title": "Black Flame / Google Books — Final Destination III: The Movie",
      "url": "https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1844163199",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Exact licensed prose edition. Original full text not inspected; novel II credits Nancy A. Collins / Natasha Rhodes. Script-based differences are not forced into the screen outcome."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "Original film props, comic pages and novel interiors",
      "type": "Date verification",
      "status": "Partially accessible",
      "note": "No complete legal lettered comic preview or full prose / film access recovered. Calendar conflicts remain disclosed, all candidate interior dates estimated. Exact clocks can replace estimates after legal inspection.",
      "sources": [
        "calendar",
        "sacrifice",
        "spring-inventory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Wipeout; future film; fan-made audiobooks and games",
      "type": "Unreleased / unverified licensing",
      "status": "Excluded from released narrative count",
      "note": "Announced but unpublished Wipeout is not a released seventh original novel. Future-film story dates are unknown. No licensed standalone narrative game or authorized audiobook edition verified; fan uploads and X-Files development scripts do not become connected canon.",
      "sources": [
        "black-flame"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Other Bloodlines promotions / trailers / deleted scenes",
      "type": "Promotional inventory",
      "status": "Open scene comparison",
      "note": "Official trailers reuse feature scenes. Any unique narrative version or alternate cut needs original comparison before counting another short; no cosmetic / production documentary counted as fiction.",
      "sources": [
        "bloodlines",
        "interactive-review"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-27",
    "status": "Research edition — six films / licensed print / connected narrative inventory reviewed; original-interior gaps disclosed",
    "checks": [
      "Reviewed six films, three prose adaptations, six original novels, two comics, interactive variants, music-video promotion and licensed live experience before building.",
      "FD5 sorts before FD1; their Flight 180 overlap remains one shared event. FD2 one-year and FD3 five-month intervals shown.",
      "1969 intended origin / reported 1968 prop conflict and Flight 180 year conflict disclosed without inventing separate universes.",
      "Three prose movie adaptations share the source-film position; contemporary original tie-ins stay inclusively assumed canon.",
      "All six digital movie products mapped from Amazon’s own film-specific links; rare print items use exact edition metadata where retailer identity remains unverified."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "Full original film / episode-style prop audit not completed. Exact modern Bloodlines year, original prose dates, historical nested scenes and comic jumps remain open.",
      "Complete legally accessible comic interiors not recovered; bibliography / solicitation evidence is not described as original-page inspection.",
      "Novel ISBN transposition on author page checked against independent edition identity. Current stock, audiobook licensing and future unpublished content not claimed."
    ],
    "publishReady": true
  }
}