Editing Final Destination 2 (section)

===Casting===
[[File:Final Destination 2 Survivors.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.36|The film's main cast: (from left to right) [[A. J. Cook]] as [[Kimberly Corman]], James Kirk as Tim Carpenter, [[Lynda Boyd]] as Nora Carpenter, [[Michael Landes]] as Thomas Burke, Jonathan Cherry as Rory Peters, [[Terrence C. Carson]] as Eugene Dix, and [[Keegan Connor Tracy]] as Kat Jennings. Absent from the cast shot are [[Ali Larter]] as [[Clear Rivers]] and [[David Paetkau]] as Evan Lewis.]]
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One of the prior film's main characters, [[Alex Browning]] ([[Devon Sawa]]), was killed off-screen in the film.<ref name="FeoAmante" /><ref name="Ellis" /><ref name="Film Threat">{{cite web |last=Film Threat |title=''Final Destination 2'': No Crash Landing |url=https://www.filmthreat.com/interviews/507/#ixzz1qMXAv0HO |access-date=March 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222213457/https://www.filmthreat.com/interviews/507/#ixzz1qMXAv0HO |archive-date=February 22, 2014}}</ref> Rumors indicated that Sawa had a contract dispute with New Line concerning the deduction of his salary;<ref name="FeoAmante" /><ref name="Perry" /> however, Perry resolved the issue with the statement that "it had everything to do with narrative, and nothing to do with money or Devon's unwillingness to come back."<ref name="Film Threat" /> Despite this, New Line reinstated [[Ali Larter]] to reprise her character as [[Clear Rivers]].<ref name="IGNUK">{{cite web |last=B. |first=Scott |title=An Interview with Ali Larter |url=http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/384/384146p1.html |access-date=May 5, 2012|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311105156/http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/384/384146p1.html |archive-date=March 11, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Cast">{{cite web |title=''Final Destination 2'' Cast List |work=[[Yahoo! Movies]] |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/final-destination-2/credits.html |access-date=April 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309051040/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/final-destination-2/credits.html |archive-date=March 9, 2013}}</ref> "When New Line asked me to come back, I thought it was great. They showed me the script and let me have some input, and it was really terrific," Larter revealed.<ref name="IGNUK" /> Larter indicated that Clear "[has] gotten to a hardened place and tucked herself inside because she has felt so much pain in her life. By having herself committed to a mental hospital, she has created a safehouse so that Death can't get her."<ref name="Culture" /><ref name="IGNUK" /> [[Tony Todd]] also resumed his character as mortician [[William Bludworth]].<ref name="Ellis" /><ref name="Film Threat" /> "It's the same character that we saw before that the audience loved", Ellis expressed.<ref name="Ellis" />

The role of [[Kimberly Corman]] was given to Canadian actress [[A. J. Cook]], who previously starred in the 1999 film ''[[The Virgin Suicides (film)|The Virgin Suicides]]''.<ref name="Cast" /> Cook described her role as "a very strong girl, very determined because her mother died a year earlier, right in front of her eyes, so she had to grow up quick". Ellis described her role as "a girl who can have some fun cause they're going on a trip and they're gonna have a good time, yet someone who can stand up to Clear, to come and challenge Clear on a race, and to bother with Clear".<ref name="Casting">{{cite video |people=David R. Ellis |title=''Final Destination 2'': Cheating Death Beyond and Back |medium=Videotape/DVD |publisher=New Line Cinema |location=New York, US}}</ref> Cook added that "it's so rare to find one strong female lead in a horror film, not to mention two [Larter]."<ref name="Film Threat" /><ref name="Cook">{{cite web |last=Joblo |first=The Arrow |title=The Arrow interviews...A. J. Cook! |work=The Arrow |url=https://www.joblo.com/arrow/interview53.htm |access-date=May 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130127015657/http://www.joblo.com/arrow/interview53.htm |archive-date=January 27, 2013}}</ref> Ellis and Perry were amazed by her sensitivity and vulnerability in her performance, and she was hired instantly. "[We] were at the beginning of what's going to be a long successful career for her", Perry cited.<ref name="Casting" /><ref name="Disc" />

[[Michael Landes]], who appeared in the TV series ''[[Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman]]'', was cast as Thomas Burke.<ref name="Cast" /> Landes defined him as "a real nice, decent guy who comes across this huge car accident [and] who is very intrigued to begin with" and as "the guy who bumps into the girl and he goes nuts as her protector".<ref name="Film Threat" /><ref name="Landes">{{cite web |last=Joblo |first=The Arrow |title=The Arrow interviews...Michael Landes! |work=The Arrow |url=https://www.joblo.com/arrow/interview54.htm |access-date=May 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126222148/http://www.joblo.com/arrow/interview54.htm |archive-date=January 26, 2013}}</ref> Ellis pointed out that he "just wanted to find someone who's young and who can relate to these kids. It wasn't an older guy, but still strong enough and yet sensitive. [Landes] brought this really good balance to his part."<ref name="Disc" /> Landes was cast a day after his audition, which caused flight schedule problems on his departure two days after and cancellation of his appointments.<ref name="Casting" /><ref name="Landes" />

Former ''[[Living Single]]'' star [[Terrence C. Carson]] was hired as Eugene Dix.<ref name="Cast" /> Carson identified his role as "a very by-the-book type of person but soon has a change of heart as the corpses begin to pile up".<ref name="Culture" /> The crew was enticed of Carson's casting, with Bress mentioning how his "originally envisioned [[Woody Allen]]-type of character has got ten more times life than it ever had. It's got ten times the personality, this charisma that T.C. brings to it... he's just such a great presence." Similarly, Perry was astonished by how Carson "can take the most absurd lines and deliver them in such grammatized form with his eyes and his deep rich speaking voice".<ref name="Casting" /> Jonathan Cherry, who recently emerged in the 2003 film ''[[House of the Dead (film)|House of the Dead]]'', was appointed as Rory Peters.<ref name="Cast" /> Cherry characterized Rory as "a very opposite of me whose arc goes from, 'I don't really care at all', to 'Oh my God, this is really happening!'"<ref name="Culture" />

In the script, Bress said that Rory was his favorite character to write since "he's great comic relief, he's got a drug problem, he's funny, and he's all that". Bress bragged that "Cherry is awesome, awesome casting cause he's just so funny and the way he delivers his lines. It's like 'Oh yeah. That's good! That's better!'" "What I think was surprising on him was that from all of the humor he's involved and his sort of itchiness that he has with Kat, there is some moments where he reveals how vulnerable he really is and so the shield comes down and right in there you're really becoming sympathetic to Rory. You like him at first cause he's the funny guy, but then you care about him because you realize that there's a place that humor comes from that we all share", Perry appended.<ref name="Casting" />

''[[Blackwoods (film)|Blackwoods]]'' actress [[Keegan Connor Tracy]] played Kat Jennings.<ref name="Cast" /> Tracy claimed that "[Kat] doesn't really buy it at first, but pretty soon even her cynical attitude can't ignore the truth of the situation they're all in."<ref name="Culture" /> Perry defined the role as "someone who is really so self-absorbed that without being overly malicious is incredibly rude and insensitive to the feelings of all those around her". Her casting was assessed by Perry as "full of energy" and "embodies the self-aware nervous energy of Kat. [Tracy] created a character that you kind of dislike intensely but you don't dislike so much that you don't understand why she is the way she is."<ref name="Casting" /><ref name="Disc" /> Rounding up the cast are [[Lynda Boyd]] (Rachel Todd in ''You, Me and the Kids'') as widow Nora Carpenter and James Kirk (Kyle Morgan in ''[[Once Upon a Christmas (film)|Once Upon a Christmas]]'') as her son Tim Carpenter, [[David Paetkau]] (Hunter Kerrigan in ''[[Just Deal]]'') as gambler Evan Lewis, [[Justina Machado]] (Vanessa Diaz in ''[[Six Feet Under (TV series)|Six Feet Under]]'') as pregnant Isabella Hudson, and [[Noel Fisher (actor)|Noel Fisher]] (Todd Tolanski of ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'') as farmer Brian Gibbons.<ref name="Cast" /> Novice actors [[Sarah Carter]], Alejandro Rae, and [[Shaun Sipos]] were hired as Kimberly's friends Shaina, Dano, and Frankie correspondingly.<ref name="Cast" /> [[Andrew Airlie]] portrayed Kimberly's father Michael Corman, while Enid-Raye Adams appeared as Dr. Ellen Kalarjian.<ref name="Cast" />

[[Mary Elizabeth Winstead]] auditioned for a role in the film because she was a fan of the first film but was not cast. She would later be cast as [[Wendy Christensen]] in ''[[Final Destination 3]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=At Death's Door: "Final Destination 3" Star Mary Elizabeth Winstead|url=http://www.amc.com/talk/2006/09/at-deaths-door|website=[[AMC Networks]]|accessdate=14 May 2025|archive-date=February 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202042125/http://www.amc.com/talk/2006/09/at-deaths-door|url-status=live}}</ref>