On en episode of Tigerbelly podcast with Bobby lee He had David Spade on and this movie got brought up. He said there was literally five days left of work on the film from being completed. The studio asked his brother Kevin or John who had Chris's voice and mannerisms down and sounded just like him to step in and they refused being too broken up over Chris's passing.
Yay, you finally talked about it since the footage was put on here:):) I definitely liked it, but all it did was make me want MORE--as much of Chris' audio as we can hear would be SPLENDID:) Or that script, I'd definitely settle for excerpts! Maybe Eddie could do a one-man show of the dialogue he remembers, because I'd sit down for a straight hour and a half of that;)
I think there's a possibility that John Garbet could have a copy of the workprint, or at least a storyreel. Otherwise it would have been impossible for him to publish the clip of the campfire scene in animatic form and edited with Chris Farley and early Eddie Murphy audio if he didn't had one, also because the clip looks recorded from a vhs tape or at least digitized, but it's just a theory.
I just put new silicone tips on my earbuds, and this video is so quiet in comparison to what I normally listen to that I thought the tips weren't fitting right.
Brandonspain12345 commented this nearly complete 1996 plot summary on Nerdstalgic’s video, no way to verify but a lot does line up: “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 slay 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”
from the moment I saw the showcase of this early incarnation of Shrek would have been very cool if Shrek transform into proto-Shrek for Shrek Ever After that would have been a great easter egg for the cinema audience.
Kinda funny how the movie was originally intended to be more of a serious adventure before it was reworked to be a comedic fairy tale spoof...when that's exactly what the original book was to begin with.
Still, the franchise offered adventurous moments besides of comedy and poetically speaking (even pretending the "internet video" non-existent): Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life, Shrek is CINEMA
I have a test animation on my channel for my possible Shrek film in the future. Hopefully that doesn’t become lost media lol it’s not like anyone’s gonna care if it is
On en episode of Tigerbelly podcast with Bobby lee He had David Spade on and this movie got brought up. He said there was literally five days left of work on the film from being completed. The studio asked his brother Kevin or John who had Chris's voice and mannerisms down and sounded just like him to step in and they refused being too broken up over Chris's passing.
Finally man! It has been ages sine you talked about our lord Shrek!
The search for lost media will never be ogre!
I liked the little reference to the Shrek musical
“Where the Sun don’t shine”
I can’t believe it,one of the greatest searches for a piece of lost media is finally over.
Yay, you finally talked about it since the footage was put on here:):) I definitely liked it, but all it did was make me want MORE--as much of Chris' audio as we can hear would be SPLENDID:) Or that script, I'd definitely settle for excerpts! Maybe Eddie could do a one-man show of the dialogue he remembers, because I'd sit down for a straight hour and a half of that;)
I think there's a possibility that John Garbet could have a copy of the workprint, or at least a storyreel. Otherwise it would have been impossible for him to publish the clip of the campfire scene in animatic form and edited with Chris Farley and early Eddie Murphy audio if he didn't had one, also because the clip looks recorded from a vhs tape or at least digitized, but it's just a theory.
I just put new silicone tips on my earbuds, and this video is so quiet in comparison to what I normally listen to that I thought the tips weren't fitting right.
id love to see the original assembly cut of shrek, i hope we get it
Brandonspain12345 commented this nearly complete 1996 plot summary on Nerdstalgic’s video, no way to verify but a lot does line up:
“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 slay 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”
from the moment I saw the showcase of this early incarnation of Shrek would have been very cool if Shrek transform into proto-Shrek for Shrek Ever After that would have been a great easter egg for the cinema audience.
This video has so many layers!
Shrek is love, Shrek is life!
This is my swamp.
o7
and SHREK IS CINEMA
Note: shrek once upon a time was found and is now on the internet archive.
Kinda funny how the movie was originally intended to be more of a serious adventure before it was reworked to be a comedic fairy tale spoof...when that's exactly what the original book was to begin with.
"It's all ogre now."
Love this series 👏🏽
Sherk is a Feaking ALL STAR!!!
Still, the franchise offered adventurous moments besides of comedy and poetically speaking (even pretending the "internet video" non-existent):
Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life, Shrek is CINEMA
26:36 Going to have to assume that "fellow colleagues" is Yoshi Killer?
No, it's not me. Idk who the hell it is.
@@YoshiKiller2S Ok, just wondering.
I’m guessing this is the final shrek video
Finally you've talked about now
Bro I read that book in 2nd grade😳💀💀💀💀💀
18:55
2 minutes and 23 seconds.
i hope we get a madagascar video next
5:40 they throw my boy in the trash can
I have a test animation on my channel for my possible Shrek film in the future. Hopefully that doesn’t become lost media lol it’s not like anyone’s gonna care if it is
Can you guys do Croods 2 next? The concept art shows a different story before that universal merger
Sum body onese told me the world was ganna roni dadada da 😂
Make an Elemental Lost Media video where they were originally gonna have a steam baby
#ReleaseShrekChrisFarleyCut
#realese the Chris Farley cut not the test animation version the one that Farley voiced acted before he died
Splendid
Hail shrek
16:43
You mean 2015?
Yes next gooooo 🎉🎉🎉
SHREK LORE
TRUE
Shrek is sexy.
You mean shrexy
shrek
Hello
5:40
Found something.
Hi
5:40 scribble Shrek
First