Last couple of months ago, I stumbled upon a movie that I didn’t know existed and made by the same guy that did “Lord of the Rings.”
What movie was it? It was “Meet the Feebles.”
That’s right, before our guy went to do smash hits, he was your average filmmaker but kickstarted his career by producing splatter comedies, and one of them involved puppets! So I watched the movie on Memorial Day (a tad ironic considering this was a commercial failure) and I really liked it! It’s not as good as other movies I’ve seen on my 80’s movie list, but it’s not bad either. I will say it would’ve been better off as a series so we could get an equal amount of time for the characters and their stories.
With that out of the way, here’s what my AU of “Meet the Feebles” would be like:
It will be set in the 1970’s but anachronism will come to play in terms of music (Bucks Fizz being one of them because they have a 70’s feel to it and I thought they would be more appreciated)
It will have actual humans in the variety show next to Feebles (And before you argue, I will remind you that while Abi is human, he still maintains the looks of a puppet)
Everyone will have 6 months to prepare for showtime instead of 12 hours
Two characters will die at the beginning (I know most of you that have seen the movie will not be interested in the dung-munching paparazzi F.W. Fly, so I figured getting rid of him would help make the AU be less stressful)
There will be an appropriate balance of good and bad people (I noticed there had been more morally gray characters and decided to shift their traits, examples like Harry being more cheerful offstage or Sidney trying to juggle his act and being a good parent to Seymour)
Have character names and designs changed (Seymour being a purple elephant instead of a elechicken hybrid, Barry having his name changed to Burton to avoid confusion, just to name a couple.)
The p🐬n scenes will be cut out entirely (Seriously it was just, eugh, hard to look at.)
Most of the main and secondary characters will survive the carnage (except for Samantha, Elihu, Ollie, Sandy, Abi, a good portion of the audience, Trevor and finally Bletch.)
The epilogue will be almost about the same except have different paths for some characters (Fuyuko moving back to New York with her friends and starting an idol group called “Sky Candy” with Harry as the mascot/MC, Sebastian’s new career as an orchestra director, Burton becoming an opera star, Wynyard going to rehab, etc)
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