The Very Different Version Of Shrek We Never Got To See 

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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.

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'd love to see Chris Farley 2D Shrek.

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

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.

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 :)

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.

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

8:00 maybe it's because you said "smaller decisions" so I was noticing detail. I never noticed how the chair springs back slowly in a realistic way before. That's a nice subtle detail on the animators' part.

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!👍

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.

Shrek is love, Shrek is life

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

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.

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.

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

I could totally see the Farley version working pretty well.

yeah sure Chris was great but Mike is Shrek all the way, his cleverness in changing the accent was legendary

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

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

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

The Scottish accent was a stroke of genius.

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

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

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

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

Great video as always 👍🏻 I'd love to see a video from you about Atuk or cursed projects general

Thanks for bringing this up!

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

Shrek is love. Shrek is life

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.

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

Really interesting take. Thanks a lot

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.

I would love to see a full chris Farley version

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.

Is there some available footage of this unreleased version?

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

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

Finally some quality content

I genuinely never thought fiona's voice fit her character

Shrek wouldn't have been a hit with Farley. Sad but true.

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 🙏

Thank you 😎 Keep up the good work!

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.

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

Damn, its a tough week for Nerdstalgic, huh?

Awesome video

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

Mike Myers redoing the lines is insane

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

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. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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

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

Crazy how this movie still holds up today.

Everyone in that movie was amazing. I'm glad the production people let Mike Myers change the dialog. I think it really did set the tone of the movie. And Eddie Murphy is a genius at children's comedy and using his voice. His other stuff is kinda raunchy but everything else is platinum.

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 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!!!

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

a lot of those Chris Farley takes were on the DVD's special features, no?

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

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

Chris Farley's Shrek sounded too kind.

wow…so THAT’S where the soap brow trend came from. Shrek’s brows are definitely on fleek here.

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

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

Its funny because i have always seen shrek dubbed in portuguese (im from Brasil) and the original voice actor from the first movie passed away too soon as well, funny coincidence for such a beloved character

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i still remember my first Shrek movie in 2004

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

Although I would adore to see a version Shrek played by Chris Farley and technically, we kidna did. He set a jar before he died and I know that Mike would do his best to honour the character that Farley had originally earned. In the end, it truly is the Scottish accent that makes Shrek such a memorable character.

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

Wait a minute, New Dream Shrek Collection; 1 Original Shrek Book, 3 Shrek Movies in VHS, Shrek TV Shorts in DVD-Videos, 2 Shrek Movies in Blu-Rays, Shrek Musicals in Music CDs, Shrek Computer and Video Games, and Shrek Webtoon Series in Dreamworks Website Vlogs.

Actually at the end of the recording for the scottish accents, Mike did it for free. he said in a recent interview about his movies he has done

Shrek is great because he doesn’t care what people think about him. Chris Farleys version would have been the opposite.

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

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.

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

Cool vid

Chris Farley was always funny when he was yelling making a scene. There really wouldn't have been a scene in Shrek where he would do his funny tantrum. Van down by the river skit for ex. *jumps on a table* His calm voice would have been a little too Wreck it Ralph feel. Glad they went with Mike and glad Mike changed the movie to a Scottish accent

We got to see it

I live in a VAN DOWN BY THE SWAMP

Do you have to wear a black sweater while doing voice recording?

I am happy he did the accent, because it is part of what makes the character Shrek so interesting , the juxtaposition of being an ogre with the accent I find that makes him sound smart and "foreign" . I love me some Shrek.😊🥰