The Very Different Version Of Shrek We Never Got To See 

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The Scottish accent was an incredible choice on Mike's part.

It’s difficult to think about Chris Farley being Shrek when I know the Mike Myers so well. Really interesting video.

I remember reading the original treatment for what this version was many times from 1996. Unfortunately the website is no longer available but I can try to summarize it by memory and seeing the concept art myself for what this version could've been. Shrek is a slacking teenage ogre who lives with his parents in swamp near a village. The parents scare them and wants Shrek to pass the torch but he doesn't want to scare anyone but wants to be friends and become a knight. His parents laugh at his dream and Shrek decides to run away to prove them wrong. He goes across the village and accidentally scared everyone and begins to doubt his dream until he meets Donkey who's captured by witches in a cage and Shrek frees him and scares the witches off. Shrek and Donkey become friends and Shrek shares his passion to Donkey. Donkey explains there's a palace finding a brave knight to slave a dragon and will marry a princess at King Hamilton's palace. Once they get there, Shrek tries to impress a guard by breathing fire like the book version did and scares the guard. (Another memory of mine is that he meets this guard before meeting Donkey and that's when Donkey hears a rumor of a brave beast but doesn't know it's him.) Anyway, Shrek steals knight armor and enters to King Hamilton's kingdom where Shrek is accepted and everyone already loves him despite nobody knowing he's a ogre. The one who really likes him is Princess Fiona, King Hamilton's daughter. Hamilton disagrees since he hasn't seen what he looks like. Over time, Shrek is prepared to face the dragon tomorrow morning and is overwhelmed by asking Fiona out and will try to have convince to show who he is. While Shrek and Donkey sleep in their room, King Hamilton sneaks in and sees Shrek is indeed a ogre. The next morning Shrek is exposed and everyone wants him executed or kicked out besides Fiona but they can't because he's already set to fight the dragon which Hamilton wants to see him die. This is hugely spread where even Shrek's parents hear the news and heads to the kingdom before if Shrek potentially dies. Shrek's match with the dragon is in a Gladiator style match with a fat female dragon with blonde hair. (This is where the treatment stops here but I assume Shrek stops or kills the dragon or even Hamilton is accidentally eaten by the Dragon and the Kingdom sees he isn't so bad and his parents apologize and he gets Fiona. IDK. Something like that.) From my other speculations, the plot that Chris Farley signed up for was the story we got and instead of Shrek enjoying his peace in his swamp, we get a scene of him scaring the villagers at a bar and possibly meeting the thug. This Shrek is more angry but has a soft spot and has parent issues where here, he wants to prove he can take care of himself and he wants a home and someone to share it with. (So it's possible that this version, he doesn't have his own swamp yet.) Also, Fiona was originally BORN as a ogre and in the prologue she meets a warlock who tries to make her beautiful but only sunrise and she's taken back to the castle by the dragon who catches her running in the woods at night instead of the opening book. Shrek originally discovers Fiona as a ogre after he hears Donkey screaming and is heart broken when he finds out that Fiona doesn't want to be ogre but she has a arc at the end were she accepts to love Shrek for who he is and not be a selfish Princess because she would become no different to Farquaad as a dark reflection to him. Which is kinda deeper than her character in the movie honestly. The climax also had Shrek captured by the police/knight and Donkey saves him and many fairy tale creatures team up to get to the wedding instead of Shrek's misunderstanding. These elements would later be utilized in Shrek 2 and Shrek the Musical. Shrek's original design was also disliked by Jeffery Katzenberg and had to be redesigned and the design looked closer to the Mike Myers look just with red Farley hair and green socks, as a cool fact.

I didn't know that Chris Farley was going to play Shrek. Honestly, I can't visualize anyone but Mike Meyers. He really brought Shrek to life with his Scottish accent.

casting John Lithgow as Lord Farquaad is one of my favortie casting choices of all time. his deep dynamic voice coming from someone 2 feet shorter is just hysterical

I'd love to see Chris Farley 2D Shrek.

Shrek really is a work of genius. The story and world of shrek is so well done Even the music was ingeniously incorporated, especially at the end. I bet Farley would’ve still made it a success, but it is a masterpiece as it is now.

As a Brit myself I don't think I ever noticed Lord Farquaad has an English accent. Shrek of course I knew was Scottish though. I really like when films have a range of accents. I think Aardman's Chicken Run demonstrates this beautifully, with mostly Yorkshire accents, but also a English received pronunciation (posh in layman's terms) and Mel Gibson doing an American accent. The accents really add something to the British charm of Aardman's stop motion, what's Wallace without his Yorkshire accent?

Our (Brazilian) first voice actor for Shrek passed away in 2006, he was also a comedian and the combination of voice and personality was perfect. He was replaced by another excellent voice actor in Shrek the Third, but as he had already dubbed Sullivan from Monsters Ink, for me Shrek became this hybrid creature, losing his essence.

We’ve seen many movies that became a disaster because of constant changes / delays. Luckily shrek was the exception and became the loved franchise that is still awesome today :)

I watched Shrek in my native language dubbing when I was a child and still loved the movie just for the writing and great animation! So its intresting to learn the history of its original sound and overall making, great vid!👍

As much as I absolutely love and miss Chris Farley, I feel like Mike Myers was a good replacement. also knowing now that he was the one who cemented Shrek's Scottish accent makes me realize that Mike Myers was near-perfect for this role. It's hard to imagine anyone else, even the lovable Chris Farley, as Shrek. This movie worked so perfect for what it was.

Shrek: I feeeeeel Robber: *Aaaaaah* Shrek: I feel good

Shrek is love, Shrek is life

Shrek just works. It was the first CD I ever owned and the soundtrack still holds up. I watched it again in university and was still entertained, I caught a lot of things I missed as a kid. The humour for both kids and adults still works for today’s audience. The animation holds up surprisingly well. It was a weird series of events that lead up to it all but it all somehow came together and created something, an animated something at that, that manages to still entertain audiences to this day.

My mind is kinda blown that Chris Farley was the original choice for Shrek. Damn. Oddly enough, I just watched Shrek with my kids on Wednesday [today is Friday], and watched Beverly Hills Ninja last week. I miss Chris Farley.

Literally just watched Shrek last night for the first time in 20 years. Excellent timing!

shrek and fat bastard are some of Myers most iconic characters - his Scottish accent, no matter how crass the dialogue, is undeniably charming and addicting to listen to, I’m so glad he had the intuition to make the change

Mike Myers has always been a genius in the film and comedy industry. It's sad that Chris Farley couldn't continue to work on the project he could have made a big impact if he were still around

Ginger bread man spitting in homies eye will never get old for me.

I could totally see the Farley version working pretty well.

I sure did love Shrek as a kid. So unique and funny!

Chris Farley would’ve been amazing, hearing him in the snippets sounds more tormented than anger, and it would’ve given us a different Eddie Murphy.

The Scottish accent was a stroke of genius.

They have wasted 4 million dollars to create one of the best childhood memories, thank you so much Dreamwork❤

In the spanish version, the voice acting is perfect, and add latin mannerisms at the vocabulary, making Shrek a excellent movie even if isn't in the original language

Shrek IS STILL amazing! Mike Meyers did an amazing job. Hard to imagine someone else as Shrek.

I’ve already heard this story but it’s interesting to hear your take on it

the shrek franchise will forever be one of the most iconic franchises ever, my childhood wouldn’t be the same without it. i remember rewatching all of the movies an unbelievable amount of times continuously before i was even 8 or something, and playing the shrek go-kart game on my little ipod touch religiously every moment i got. i really hope we’ll miraculously get a shrek 5 movie some day

Mike Myers sounded pretty bland in his original recording, so I get why he wanted to re-record his dialogue with a Scottish accent.

Really cool video, I’m 23 and shrek is still today my #1 favourite movie! I loved learning these facts :)

Scottish is a regional British accent. Lord F has an English accent

Shrek is love. Shrek is life

Pause.... There's a whole tape of Chris Farley Shrek out there? Release this. I'll listen to it. All the time.

Thanks to Shrek we have so many heart felt movie franchises like Kung Fu Panda, How to train your dragon, and even the hilarious Madagascar movies. I feel like we don't give these movies enjoy credit as, yes they've been commercialized to hell and back but that doesn't take away how great they are. Kung Fu Panda 2 is still one of my favorite movies, maybe even my favorite Kung Fu movie.

As great & hilarious as Chris Farley was the shrek main cast trio we ended up with imo are 10/10 perfect.

You can just tell that its Farlys face behind the animation and acting of Shrek, the movie really is a masterpiece.

Here's a somewhat related "fun" fact. There was once a script for a comedy movie named that would be named Atuk. Production for this film was set to begin in the early 1980's, but it kept getting delayed all the way into the late 1990's. The reason for this is because there were four different actors who expressed interest in the lead role, but none of them were able to actually be in the film. Those four actors were John Belushi, Sam Kinison, John Candy, and Chris Farley, all of which passed away unexpectedly before being able to shoot the movie. After the passing of Farley, the studio decided to scrap the movie and the rest was history.

Mike Myers did an amazing job as Shrek. I don't know if Chris Farley would have made a better Shrek, but when I heard Farley say, "They judge me before they even know me," it wasn't as poignant as when Myers said it. I will say, however, that Farley would have made a better Cable Guy than Jim Carrey.

I think it was good for Mike Myers to request a script re-write that was initially made for Chris Farley.

Wild. I literally just watched this with my nieces over this past weekend lol. It was great reliving it with them. I was the older ones age when this first came out. They enjoyed it the same

accompanied by shrek 2 with the song "bang the doldrums" by fall out boy in it, which was written about the bassist of my chemical romance interestingly enough

The comparison of two voice overs for a cartoon reminds me how different Buzz Lightyear sounded in his animated film where they had both Tim Allen and Patrick Warburton do the same dialog.

Look at the scene when Princess Fiona leaves with that F-tard king, and Shrek is confronting Donkey about lying to him. the way the animators were able to show Shrek's hurt in his face even though he was acting angry, it's amazing.

Sounds like Farley was sacrificed in order to make a better shrek in a way

Actors mostly suck as voice actors. I miss the day when voice actors was actually an esteemed career. With actual qualified voice actors. Not just celebrities put as voice actors

It’s kind of like the whole Toy Story Black Friday reel and woody being a ventriloquist puppet but this was way more complex

I just want to see the Farley Cut as a special features on a Shrek Blu-ray, I think it would be great to see how they blended stop motion and cgi, horrifying if that had been the only version but interesting for fans who have grown up and still are fans of Shrek. Rest In Peace Chris Farley 🙏

I prefer Mike, but damn I miss Farley. He seemed so cool, weird how his life panned out.

Just hearing Chris's voice, I think Shrek would have been a more serious film by comparison. You can hear the sadness in his voice, which brings a more somber tone to the scene.

I would love to see a full chris Farley version

Good think we didn’t see him like this because nightmare fuel.

Thanks for bringing this up!

Wow! This is actually some groundbreaking info, and delivered very insightfully. Thank you.

Chris Farley was my favorite actor when I was little. He passed away when I was 5. My brother still likes to bring up that I cried when he died. Only two celebrities in my life made me truly upset. The other being Neil Peart.

Wow, I’m so glad Mike seen that shrek just needed a Scottish accent and even more glad dreamworks agreed

I know that this decision is what make Shrek famous and what it is today, but you mean to tell me he not only asked if he could re record the lines after RECORDING THE ENTIRE SCRIPT, but it also COST THEM 4 MILLION DOLLARS, and they AGREED TO IT, POTENTIALLY ALREADY KNOWING HOW EXPENSIVE IT WOULD BE!?!?!? I know the actors play a part in the projects as well and can give ideas, but not only did he change the voice of Shrek after recording all the lines, but it also cost them a lot of money and they agreed to let him do it. That's amazing!!!

Wow I didn’t know about Bill Murray and Steve Martin! I wish there were recordings of them playing the characters

Today’s kids movies are PATHETIC compared to Shrek. I lost all hope on it.

Chris Farley's Shrek sounded too kind.

Is there some available footage of this unreleased version?

And that's why DreamWorks is my all-time favorite animated studio

I found a great deal of Chris Farley's humour was just "hey laugh at me, I'm fat and dumb" sad rather than funny.

Keanu had more emotion and vigor in that clip than 4 matrix movies.

I would of loved it if Chris Farley was Shrek! We need to find the What If Machine from Futurama!!

give it to me papa shrek

I genuinely never thought fiona's voice fit her character

So was Shrek gonna live in… a van… down by the river?

A great example of changing voice actors being a bad idea is Disney's Aladdin. Genie was Robin Williams in the 1st and 3rd movie, Dan Castanella was Genie in the 2nd. Homer Simpson did NOT make as good of a Genie. But then...Genie was designed based on Robin's stand up comedy.

I'm a simple man. I see a Shrek video, I click immediately.

Outside of Shrek, I often wonder what Farley would have matured into had he lived long enough

1 and 2 were really great. So many things from the music to the subtle jokes were great. 3 was tolerable but 4 is not worth thinking about.

How great would it be if Dreamworks put out an original cut/cast version as a special.

I don't get the Chris Farley humour. Tbh I can't stand watching SNL. I don't know if it's because I'm British and we have a different sense of humour. I just don't find it funny at all.

This was a very nice change of pace and I understood and learn some new shit that I didn't know.. Chris Farley was going to be shrek?

I live in a VAN DOWN BY THE SWAMP

Please do a video on James Cameron's Spiderman movie

Personally, I was never all that fond of Chris Farley. Just my opinion, not hating anyone who loved the guy. I doubt I'd have liked that version of Shrek. And Janeane Garofalo as Fiona? That alone would have been a hard pass.

So basically if Chris Farley didn’t like, die, then Shrek would be not as good 💀

I love when someone gets a video idea...that's been made a million times before

Damn, its a tough week for Nerdstalgic, huh?

I really wish we could’ve seen the Shrek that Chris Farley did. He’s one of my favorite actors of all time.

My life feels like a lie. Learning Michael Myers voiced Shrek is a childhood secret that should never be revealed

I'd love to hear the Canadian version of Shrek.

Dude idk what it was about this movie but my daughter loved it since birth. Laughing at it at 4 months old, she's 4 and she don't really care for it anymore but back then it was her jam

Damn, so Chris’s death gave life to a lot of great Dreamwork’s success. Weird

Mike Myers normal voice Shrek sounded like if Ray Liotta ((Tommy Vercetti)) was cast as Shrek. Ray Liotta Coulda also made a good casting for Shrek despite his angry Italian tone. (Rip ray Liotta))

All due respect i dont think it would have been a hit if Farley had played him his voice didn't fit Shrek. Mike Myers choice to do that accent Made Shrek

Crazy how this movie still holds up today.

But can we talk about this movie's spanish dub (Latin American) phenomenom? Almost every bilingual I've talked to agrees the spanish version is even better, even if they normally prefer the english versions of the movies they watch.

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I thought they were gonna talk about the original Lost Media animation in this video.

I didnt know that chris was supposed to voice shrek, he can justice to the character, both chris and micke are great.

Mike Myers redoing the lines is insane

Idk man, I think Chris Farley would have been PERFECT as the voice of muscle man in Regular Show

It would be a fascinating project to release a historic version with the original cast. Although... Mike's choices were phenomenal! I love his Scottish accent. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Shrek is my favorite color!!

i still remember my first Shrek movie in 2004

6:02 That bit made me lose it! God bless Mike Myers! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😊