Shrek also received a promotion from food chains such as Baskin-Robbins (promoting the film's DVD release) and Burger King. The film was also originally planned to be motion-captured, but after poor results, the studio decided to get PDI to help Shrek get its final computer-animated look.Įarning $484.4 million at the worldwide box office, the film was a critical and commercial success. After Farley died in 1997 before he could finish, Mike Myers was brought in to work for the character, who after his first recording decide to record his voice in a Scottish accent. Shrek originally cast Chris Farley to do the voice for the title character, recording about 80%-90% of his dialog. Williams convinced him to bring the film to DreamWorks in 1994, the time the studio was founded, and the film was put quickly into active development by Jeffrey Katzenberg after the rights were bought by the studio in 1995. The rights to the books were originally bought by Steven Spielberg in 1991, before the founding of DreamWorks, when he thought about making a traditionally animated film based on the book. The film made notable use of popular music the soundtrack includes music by Smash Mouth, Eels, Joan Jett, The Proclaimers, Jason Wade, John Cale, Self, Baha Men, Leslie Carter and Dana Glover (covering Leonard Cohen). It is loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!, and somewhat serves as a parody film, targeting other films adapted from numerous children's fantasies (mainly animated Disney films). Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated fantasy-comedy film produced by PDI/ DreamWorks, released by Universal Pictures, directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow. “ The greatest fairy tale never told.” ―Tagline

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