All Footage Found of Chris Farley's Shrek So Far

I love how the animators who failed on Prince of Egypt were sent to work on Shrek as punishment, and it was so infamous they called it being "Shreked". And through sheer willpower and spite, they proceeded to make one of the most influential animated movies of all time

I was really impressed with Chris Farleys voice over work here, I could actually see him in the movie.

3D animation tests are so creepy, scary, uncanny, weird and interesting to watch

the chemistry between Chris Farley and Eddie murphy in the clips is solid, they bounce off each other well.

It’s interesting how stylized and detailed they made the models, it definitely had a unique art style being more cartoonish before it was scrapped and used a more realistic look in the finished film.

That old shrek is kinda nightmare fuel but I think that actually gets the point of the movie across better.

I don't think Chris Farley's Shrek was gonna be his saving grace... looking at how the characters looked, how uninviting and depressing the scenery looked, it would've been even more detrimental to Farley's career. Staying sober and away from thr wrong people may have kept some doors open for him to at least live comfortably. Enlarged heart or not, it was still made of solid gold. Fly High, Chris. I'll make sure my kids know who you are.

I can kinda see why they punished the animators with this movie lmao

i cant believe how much better that campfire scene got since these storyboards.

I absolutely loved watching this: 2:41 It just felt so... real. The dialogue just had so much voice acting into it.. it was so calming.

This alternate version of the movie would be incredibly interesting to find more of. That last animatic shows two key differences in the story- the first is that this Shrek took cues from Farley's character in Tommy Boy, where his parents coddled him instead of abusing him like what's implied in the final movie and shown directly in Shrek the Musical. However, early Shrek's parents protected him SO much that he seems to not be able to do much, and either still lives with them, or is homeless after their death or something, which brings up the second difference. Shrek never HAD the Swamp to begin with in this version of the story, and here he only agrees to save Fiona in order to be rewarded with A swamp by Farquaad. So this Shrek is less about retaining his status quo, and more about making life better for himself. This aspect of the plot was likely changed in order to further distance the film from Disney's animated films, as DreamWorks PDI was founded by ex-Disney employees and Shrek was supposed to be the anti-Disney movie. But pretty much every animated Disney movie to that point had been about moving up in life and making things better for yourself, "wanting more". So by tweaking things to have Shrek be reclaiming his rightful property, and turning Michael Eisner caricature Farquaad from whatever he was in this story, into a tyrant who rounds up those who don't fit in his vision of a perfect world and dumping them on the property of someone else, a property he sees as worthless, DreamWorks PDI was able to more effectively dunk on Disney. As much as it sucks that Farley died, I do think the circumstances surrounding the event internally at DreamWorks PDI gave us a better, more biting satire of a movie in the end.

An interesting detail in the storyboard footage is that 4:09 implies that at this point in the story, Shrek has already wooed Fiona, and is already making plans to both take the swamp deed AND Fiona with him. Considering that the only other campfire scene in the final movie is the one just before Donkey discovers Fiona's curse (with Shrek & Fiona bonding over eating weed rats), there is a plausibility that this scene actually takes there - near the end of the film - instead of on the cliff like in the final picture. The lack of shots of Fiona watching on from a cave adds credence to this.

the old one is kinda sweet. I like how much more donkey and Shrek bond more than they do in the final movie. I also like the scary animation, it's kinda cozy in a way.

That old footage has to be documented into a documentary about Chris Farley who did original voice recording before he died . It could make many Shrek fans really interested in why he didn’t finish voicing Shrek before mike Myers .

1:08 bro shrek ballin

I hope in the future DreamWorks would released the audio of Chris Farley voicing Shrek. R.I.P. Chris Farley

Only thing is the "I'm free, I'm free!" part in the middle of the compilation was actually test footage from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Chris would have been a great pick to voice Shrek, but he died sadly. I'm glad they did not throw this project to the trash can, Mike Myers did a memorable job, same with Eddie.

That random horse being free though. I wonder what they would have done with that. Also, I didn't know that Donkey always was played by Eddie Murphy, I thought that was a change made in the final movie.

i’ve just noticed that chris farley’s shrek had a very similar voice to the actor who did the polish version of the character (the one i am used to, cause i’m polish) and i like him much better because of that. i remember watching english shrek for the first time and thinking that mike myers’ voice didn’t suit the character at all because of that weird accent he did, our polish shrek sounds very similar to chris farley’s and it’s kinda interesting considering the fact he wasn’t included in the final version of the movie