This film takes place in the same universe as Yesterday (2019)
...in which the Beatles never became famous. This of course turned out quite well for John Lennon, but for Ringo—at least at first—things were tough. Since his drumming career somehow didn't take off (at least not right away), Ringo instead attempted to make it in the visual arts
. As a result, he was homeless. However, there is no universe in which Ringo isn't irresistibly adorable, so he ended up becoming a billionaire anyway, after being adopted by one. (It's implied that "Youngman" was not "the lad's" original given name, and was instead given to him by his new "father," so Youngman may have previously been Richard Sarkey.- This would of course mean that Richie probably lost his mother at a younger age, and didn't get a loving stepfather.
- He must not have taken up the drums as a child, or he would have ended up rich and famous, with or without the Beatles.
- But the scene of Youngman and Guy Grand with musical instruments implies that Youngman may still yet find his way to the drums, if a bit later in life than he did in our reality.
The Grands are vampires
Guy Grand was a Vampire from the movie's start, and changed Youngman shortly after.- The real reason Guy and his sisters could never produce heirs the traditional way was because they were all vampires. After centuries of acquiring wealth and power, the bored immortal has little better to do than troll the living.
- When Guy Grand talked to the homeless youth on the bridge and made him an offer, it wasn't just an offer to move in with him; immortality was also in the package.
- In the following scene, Guy didn't adopt Youngman through Britain's legal system, but through the underground Vampiric one. The cake Youngman is eating contains some of Guy's blood (consuming each other's blood is how a Vampire "turns" a human, in many stories). Youngman wore shades in the scene because a newborn Vampire is more sensitive to light.
- Other vampires are sometimes involved in the schenes. When Christopher Lee's character briefly appears as a vampire in the climax, the fangs are real.
- While money is a powerful motivator, vampire hypnosis would explain why more people aren't at least more skeptical of Grand's offers, especially in the infamous final sequence.
