FRO6
Happy 30th anniversary of Freddie as FRO7 movie, Here my take on Freddie the Frog.
Many years ago when the French first settled in Australia, a very wealthy French nobleman named Leroy Kingsley met an aboriginal woman named Lowanna. She is not just beautiful and kind but also brave and strong. They later fall in love and Lord Kingsley decides to stay in Australia to be with her. Her younger sister, Messina, disapproves of this. She always envied her brother for years because he is the heir and her parents greatly favored him while treating her like she never existed. She also doesn't get why Leroy chose to marry a “poor, dirty Aborigine” when he should at least pick a rich, beautiful woman.
Lord Kingsley and Lowanna soon got married and moved into a beautiful mansion by the ocean. Lowanna loved Leroy dearly but she had a secret of her own. Lowanna came from a family of powerful magic users and was taught how to use her magic. Messina later discovered Lowanna’s true origins and she began seeking magical powers for herself. She then uses a dark ritual to summon the aboriginal god of evil, Marmoo. She made a deal with him in exchange for magical powers and immortality.
A year later, Lowanna gave birth to a half french half aborginal baby boy and was given the name, Frederic. Lord Kingsley then went away on his business trip to France and promised to return to see his beloved wife and son. Unfortunately on his way to return to Australia, A powerful lightning from the storm struck and destroyed the ship Lord Kingsley was in. He tragically died by drowning at the sea leaving his grieving wife, widowed.
Ten years later, Frederic grew up into a happy boy being raised by his single mother. He inherited her mother’s powers and Lowanna teaches her son how to use his magic for good. She also taught him fighting skills so he can defend himself and his loved ones.
One day, while the two are out hiking in the desert, a strange red serpent attacks them. Lowanna sacrificed her life to save her son from getting bitten by the red serpent. Frederic watches it slither away; he had never seen one of those in the desert before. He tries to save his mom by going to the medics to treat her injuries but the venom turns out to be too strong and poor Frederic had to watch his mom die before his eyes. As a last gift to her son, She gave Frederic her ancestors’ magical wooden staff that activated whenever he was in great danger.
Now an orphan, Frederic is taken in custody by his aunt, Messina. She had already taken over her deceased brother’s duties, but only as regent, until Frederic came of age to assume responsibility as the next lord when she must step down.
Soon Frederic realizes that the serpent he saw in the desert was Messina (also responsible for conjuring up the storm that took the life of his father). Messina turned into her serpent form and planned to kill him with her venomous bite just like how she killed Lowanna. Remembering his mother’s last gift, Frederic activated the wooden staff and let out a mighty magical blast.
The magical blast causes them to fall from the house’s window and into the raging ocean, and the magic staff turn Frederic into a tiny egg to save him from drowning. Messina woke up and found herself washed ashore. Messina tried to turn back to her human form but couldn’t. The magical blast from the staff had trapped her in her serpent form and she was unable to turn human again. Unable to find her nephew and the magic staff, The furious Messina vows to take over the world and take revenge on Frederic for trapping her in her serpent form. Meanwhile, The egg falls deep into the ocean and is stuck for many years until someone finds the egg and activates the magic staff.
A Loch Ness monster named Nairne was swimming away on her vacation to Australia. To avoid humans finding out, She disguised herself as a human tourist and went to a museum. The tour guide talked about ancient artifacts including the newest addition, the magic staff.
Few weeks ago, an Archaeologist found the magic staff while looking for artifacts and fossils.
After the museum tour, she meets a security guard couple and their daughter, Daphne.
At night, Nairne was swimming happily alone by the beach when humans were not around. She took a deep dive to explore the great barrier reef and saw many fishes there. While exploring, She saw something shiny underneath the sand. She digs it and finds a tiny egg that she mistook for a shiny pebble. She decided to put it on her pebble collection.
She gets out of the sea, dressed into her human disguise and looks for something to eat. She spotted a fish and chip shop and went there. While she was having dinner, She saw two suspicious-looking men picking up their takeaway.
Thanks to her great sense of hearing, She could hear them whispering about their plan to break into the museum to get the magic staff for their boss. She gets very bad vibes from them and secretly follows the two shady men when she finishes her dinner.
The two men drive to the museum and Nairne watches as the two men break into the museum. Realizing they were up to no good, Nairne sneaks inside the museum to stop the two thieves. While she wandered through the rooms and tried to find the thieves, she heard yells and gunshots. She dashed in there and saw the thieves had already killed Daphne's parents and taken the magic staff. Nairne then fought off the thieves.
A tiny egg drops out from Nairne’s pocket and the magic staff sense his presence. The magic staff activated and in a flash of light, the tiny egg hatched into a tadpole who turned out to be a resurrected Freddie.
Nairne and the thieves struggled and fought until the magic staff broke in half. Suddenly, they heard police sirens. The thieves quickly escaped with the top half of the staff leaving Nairne with the bottom half of the staff. Nairne saw Freddie who was still sleeping. She carefully picked him up and escaped the museum by jumping out of the open window and into the sea.
Once the police cars and the ambulance cars left, Nairne found her tail became trapped under a boulder. Freddie woke up and saw her struggling to free herself. She befriended Frederic, who in turn used his powers to free her tail from the boulder.
She learned the magic staff belonged to Freddie and she gave the bottom half of the staff to him. Freddie vow to find to top half of the staff and bring the pieces together.
Frederic asks her how long he slept after being trapped in an egg. Nairne hesitantly answered Frederic which shocked him. Frederic is very sad that all his friends and everyone he knows are now gone. Nairne comforted the poor, heartbroken tadpole and told him that his friends may be gone in the past but he can make new ones in the future.
Nairne took him near dry land, and quickly disguised herself as a human before humans saw her. She went to the park and put Frederic into the pond where tadpoles reside. She notes that if Frederic ever needed her, he would whistle. He then spent the rest of his childhood in his new life as Freddie the Frog.
Freddie eventually grows up to become one of the most competent members of the Australian secret Service, known as agent F.R.O.6.
To hide his identity from the public as a secret agent(Also being a humanoid green frog in the public can cause a lot of attention), He uses an illusion to make civilians think he is human. He also owns a robotic high-tech car named Nicole.
He is then called to London, England by the British Secret Service, as some major famous buildings in the United Kingdom are vanishing. By the time Freddie arrives as he leaves Perth, Australia. Nelson's Column, Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, St. Paul's Cathedral, and Stonehenge are already missing. Freddie meets the Brigadier, who seems to have trouble keeping himself and his comrades from getting tangled up in the phone cord.
Freddie is introduced to Daphne Daffers AKA agent W.E.E.K.7., a strong-willed, tough as nails and athletic Thai-british woman who is an expert in martial arts, and Arran Scott AKA agent F.R.I.D.A.Y.5., an introverted, shy and nervous Irish man who is an expert with weapons. Daphne joins the secret service in order to avenge her parents’ deaths while Arran joins the secret service to take his proud father’s place as the new weapons expert.
Things take a turn for the worse as Canterbury Cathedral disappears. Freddie also meets Tom Trilby AKA agent M.O.R.N.I.N.9. who happened to be the most popular, charming and attractive James bond-like member of the secret service and also the boyfriend of Daphne. He was originally supposed to be on a mission to find out about the missing famous buildings but he refused and said he had other plans. So Freddy takes his role instead.
During a trip to Ascot, Freddie discovers that the villain capturing the buildings turns out to be El Supremo, and he's working alongside Messina. El Supremo was once a italian-spanish scientist and inventor named Professor Elladio Salas and used to work for the secret service. Tired of being treated like a nobody and everyone praised the other scientists instead of him, he developed an inferiority complex and a desire to rule the world as their beloved ruler which led to him falling to supervillainy. Freddie also learns that El Supremo is planning to steal Big Ben next.
Knowing Daphne and Arran won't want to be taken, Freddie tells them the next target is Windsor Castle and they hide on Big Ben but they get captured by a giant robotic snake. They go to a secret island in Scotland and discover that El Supremo plans to use the buildings, by shrinking them to a size of a trophy and using them as batteries to the top half of the magic staff, which will send a powerful sleeping virus across the world (starting with the UK), which will put people to sleep, allowing him to invade and enslave them. Arran then freaks out as the last required building is captured: Edinburgh Castle.
Freddie and Arran are thrown into a pool of sea monsters(captured by El Supremo), while Daphne is taken to be brainwashed into a mindless follower of El Supremo and Messina. El Supremo uses the crystal to send his sleeping virus all across Great Britain and the whole country shuts down. Freddie whistles and Nairne appears to save them both from being devoured, and Arran is saved from drowning. Freddie cast a spell on Arran so he can breathe underwater like him and Nairne. She then invited them to her family reunion party. Nairne shows her family to Freddie, who then asks them to help defeat El Supremo by submerging the patrolling submarines.
Freddie saw Arran looking glum at the table. He asked him what was wrong. He explained to him he was sad that he didn’t think he was as good as his father who was the best weapons expert and was famous among the secret service. Freddie encouraged him that he didn’t need to be a copy of his father he just needed to be himself.
Meanwhile, Daphne was locked up in a cell and was forced to undergo a brainwashing theory, ala Clockwork Orange. She tries her best to resist the brainwashing. Just as she was about to succumb to her brainwashing, She remembered the memories of her parents and it gave her enough strength and will to resist it and destroy the brainwashing device.
She escapes from the cell but is found by Tom who is later revealed to be working for El Supremo and Messina. He betrayed her by ordering the snake guards to capture her. When she confronted him about why he is working for the evil organization, Tom revealed he started working for them as a double agent when they bribed him with a harem of highly attractive women, unlimited supply of expensive wine and a free membership card for Cryptoland. Angry and heartbroken by the cruel betrayal and seeing her boyfriend’s true colours, Daphne broke up with him by declaring it over between them as she was sent away to her cell by the snake guards.
Freddie and Arran save Daphne from the snake guards in disguise and the three return to stop El Supremo from conquering the world. During their mission, Daphne and Freddie bond over being orphans who lost their parents to the villains and why they join the secret services.
They have to battle an army of soldiers, but in the process, Daphne and Arran come too close to the top staff's energy and fall unconscious. Freddie manages to infiltrate the top staff's energy with his mind powers. He threw the bottom half of the staff at the top half of the staff, putting the pieces together and turning back into the single magic staff again. Unfortunately, Freddie also fells unconscious.
El Supremo and Messina (who are preparing to attack their next target - The United States) arrive to kill Freddie, but he, Daphne and Arran defeat El Supremo by shrinking him down to an ant's size and trapping him in a matchbox.
A final battle then ensues between Freddie and Messina, who attacks by shape-shifting into a bat, hyena, scorpion, and boa, taking each form in the previously mentioned order. As Messina begins to crush Freddie in her boa form, Freddie remembers comforting words from his late mother and finds the strength to escape and toss Messina into an electrical pole high up.
Fueled by vengeance, Freddie decided to kill the unconscious Messina out of bloody rage for the murder of his parents. He raised his magic staff and was about to give her the finishing blow but stopped when he saw his friend's terrified eyes and pleaded with him to stop. Their reactions remind him about how he was forced to watch his mom get bitten by Messina as a child. He turned to look at his reflection from the puddle and gasped in shock when he saw his eyes.
It was not the eyes of a heroic, friendly frog…
…but eyes of a murderous, deranged Snake.
Horrified by his actions, Freddie realized killing Messina wouldn’t bring his parents back and it only brought more pain and suffering. While Freddie is distracted by his thoughts, Messina wakes up and is then turned into a buzzard and vows to get revenge on Freddie one day before fleeing.
Freddie learns killing isn’t going to solve anything and he decides to arrest her aunt instead. The Brigadier and his team arrive in time to see Freddie and his friends. They then arrested El Supremo, the evil organization and Tom. Britain is restored to normal and Freddie heads off to deal with some bad guys in the United States.
Trivia:
1. Freddie will be of french/aboriginal ethnicity. Unlike the original, he is not a prince but instead the nobleman’s son. The magic part goes to his mother, not his father.
2. He lives in Australia instead of paris.
3. Instead of a sapient magic car for no reason, Nicole will instead be a hi-tech robotic car created by the scientists of the secret service. Unlike her counterpart, She did not have a crush on Freddie.
4. The crows are replaced with human men instead.
5. Freddie will be more developed than his counterpart. His personality seems to be similar to the original…except it was all just a mask. Behind the curtains of a charming, idealistic and happy spy was a cynical, unenthusiastic, easily irritable and bitter man suffering from depression and fueled with murderous batman-like vengeance against his aunt for what she did to his parents. However, he did truly care for his friends and try his best to hide his true personality from them. In the end, his true personality slipped when he tried to kill his aunt in front of his friends. Seeing his friends’ horrified faces and his murderous look from his reflection made him come back to his senses and was appalled for what he done. He later resolved to be a better person in the future and learn to let go of his trauma. Think Bojack Horseman if he is a badass spy instead of an actor and he hides his true personality by using mannerisms and behaviors of Mr Peanut butter.
6. Daphne and Arran will have bigger roles. Unlike her counterpart who fell for Freddie only because he is French, She grew to have feelings for him after breaking up with Tom and bonding over being orphans. She will be the one who managed to stop Freddie trying to murdered her aunt by asking him what will his dead parents feel if he killed someone. Arran’s arc is about becoming his own person rather than being a copy of his father and learning to try harder at making weaponry.
7. It will be a miniseries.
8. Unlike the original, it is for adults instead of kids.
