Today we know Shrek as the giant ogre voiced by Mike Myers. What many don't know, however, is that Chris Farley was originally cast to voice the animated character and nearly completed his work on the film before his death.
Before Farley died from an overdose in December of 1997, the "Saturday Night Live" actor had already recorded much of Shrek's dialogue. "He did 99 percent of the film and then passed away," Chris Farley's brother, Kevin Farley, recently told Yahoo in an interview. The original Shrek, which was created with Farley in mind, was also envisioned as much different than the Shrek Myers played. According to blogger Jim Hill, Farley's Shrek was a young ogre who didn't want to scare people, but instead dreamed of becoming a knight. "Originally the Shrek character was a little bit more like Chris," the "SNL" star's brother told Yahoo, "like a humble, bumbling innocent guy."
Now we can finally hear what Farley's bumbling Shrek would have been like, thanks to a leaked story reel of the late comedian voicing the character. The video, which was originally posted to Vimeo in 2013 by film producer John Garbett, a Development Producer for DreamWorks on the original "Shrek," shows storyboard sketches accompanied by Farley and Eddie Murphy's voicework. The video was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday and has since caught Reddit's attention. Farley's voice work reveals a different type of ogre: a sensitive, heartfelt Shrek that we wish we could've met on the big screen.
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