NICOLAS CAGE TURNED DOWN THE LEAD ROLE BECAUSE HE DIDN’T WANT TO BE AN OGRE.ĭreamworks executives considered Tom Cruise and Leonard DiCaprio for Shrek, until Katzenberg offered Nicolas Cage the part. ![]() In the version of the film Farley worked on, Shrek was a teenage ogre who didn’t want to go into the family business and had aspirations of becoming a knight. CHRIS FARLEY WAS THE ORIGINAL SHREK.įarley was not only cast in the title role, but he had actually completed recording somewhere between 80 to 95 percent of his dialogue before he passed away in 1997. Williams brought it to Katzenberg, and the project finally got off the ground from there. The two children loved the book and read it multiple times. Williams’ tykes, a kindergartner and a pre-schooler, brought Shrek! to their producer father’s attention. THE PRODUCER’S KIDS ARE WHAT FINALLY GOT SHREK A GREEN LIGHT. He couldn’t get the project off the ground until years later though-after Dreamworks SKG, the studio he ran with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, came to be in 1994. The mogul bought the rights to the book in 1991, picturing Shrek as a standard hand-drawn animated film for his Amblin Entertainment company with the two comedians in mind in the lead roles. ![]() STEVEN SPIELBERG WANTED BILL MURRAY AND STEVE MARTIN TO PLAY SHREK AND DONKEY. Shrek was loosely based on William Steig’s 1990 picture book, Shrek! Steig was a prolific cartoonist for The New Yorker and a children’s writer who Newsweek once dubbed the “king of cartoons.” Steig passed away at the age of 95 in 2003, two years after Shrek's release. Here are 15 things you might not know about Shrek. ![]() The Dreamworks project went from doomed to successful when the anti-fairy tale fairy tale became popular enough to spawn three sequels and a spin-off prequel, and critically acclaimed enough to become the first ever recipient of the Best Animated Feature Oscar. Delayed significantly because of the death of its star, a full decade elapsed between the time Steven Spielberg bought the movie rights to a children’s book about an ornery green ogre and the day Shrek showed up in movie theaters.
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