Vancouver filmmaker Zachary Lipovsky says it took innovative thinking — and a fake decapitation — to land the job directing “Final Destination: Bloodlines.”The supernatural horror film, in theatres Friday, is the sixth in the long-running franchise about people who narrowly escape death only to be hunted down by fate through elaborate, gruesome accidents.Lipovsky and co-director Adam B. Stein say they essentially had to audition for the job and turned their Zoom pitch to Warner Bros. execs into a perfectly choreographed, blood-soaked spectacle.“As we were pitching, the back fireplace in our room started to light the back wall on fire, and then we got up and started running around screaming,” Lipovsky recalls on a virtual call from Vancouver.They doused the faux flames with a fire extinguisher and aired out the room, but weren’t in the clear yet.“Suddenly the ceiling fan came loose and I jumped out of the way and it fell and chopped Adam's head off and blood went spraying everywhere,” says Lipovsky.“And then we…

Vancouver filmmaker Zachary Lipovsky says it took innovative thinking — and a fake decapitation — to land the job directing “Final Destination: Bloodlines.”