However, after negative audience reaction at preview screenings, the ending was rewritten and re-shot for the theatrical release with a happier ending. In the excised ending, as used in the director's cut, the plant attacks Audrey and reveals that it also ate Orin and Mr. Mushnik. Seymour pulls her from its jaws but is too late: she is mortally wounded. Seymour confesses that he fed Orin and Mushnik to the plant. Audrey asks Seymour to feed her to the plant too, so Seymour can earn the success he deserves, and, in a way, she'll always be with him ("Somewhere That's Green" (reprise)). After fulfilling her dying wish, he attempts suicide by jumping off the roof of a building, only to be stopped by Patrick Martin. Martin offers to propagate and sell Audrey IIs, saying he has already grown an Audrey II from a cutting he harvested earlier. Realizing Audrey II is planning global conquest, Seymour resolves to destroy the plant. In response, Audrey II tears down the shop, fishes Seymour from the rubble and eats him alive (“Mean Green Mother from Outer Space”). The plant spits out Seymour's glasses and laughs victoriously. The three chorus girls appear in front of an American flag and tell how Audrey II buds became a worldwide craze, and grew into an army of monstrous plants that began to take over the Earth. Giant Audrey II plants are shown toppling buildings and destroying cities, as well as eating people. The United States Army fights the buds as they ascend the Statue of Liberty and Audrey II bursts through the movie screen ("Finale (Don't Feed the Plants)"). The finale Oz and Ashman wanted to retain the ending of the musical where Seymour and Audrey die and the plant succeeds and takes over the city of New York, but Geffen was actually against it. "He said you can't do that", Oz recounts. "But again he knew what Howard and I wanted to do, so he supported us." A special effects team skilled in working with miniatures went to great lengths to create the finale. The model department was supervised by Richard Conway, known for his model work on Flash Gordon and Brazil. "It was all model stuff, that was the brilliant thing. He created the bridge, the buildings, several Audrey IIs and created all of it, all on tabletop. It's all old-fashioned, tabletop animation" (although no stop