Random Movie Trivia - Shrek

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Shrek

• Chris Farley was originally cast as Shrek and even did some of the voice recording before he tragically passed away.
• It took more than four and a half years to make this movie and they even started working on Shrek 2 before they finished the first movie.  In fact, the movie took so long to make that they even reference other movies that hadn't even come out before they begin making it like The Matrix.
• The principal actors who voiced the characters in the movie never actually met one another and read all of their lines with a stand-in.
• Shrek means "monster" in Yiddish.  What is Yiddish, you ask?  Turns out it is a German language with Jewish origins.  You learned something new today.  Knowledge is power!
• In the scene where all of the fairy tale creatures show up in Shrek's swamp, you can see Papa Bear comforting Baby Bear.  Later you see Mama Bear as a rug in Lord Farquaad's castle, but at the end of the movie she is seen dancing with all of the other characters.
• In that same scene in the swamp, over 1,000 fairy tale creatures can be seen invading the swamp.
• The effects department actually took mud showers so that they could realistically make mud in the film.
• Mike Myers recorded the entire film in an accentless voice.  After watching the film, he decided to re-record the entire movie in a Scottish accent because that was how his mother used to read him bedtime stories when he was a kid.
• This movie marks the fifth time that Mike Myers uses a Scottish accent in a performance, the others being Saturday Night Live, Wayne's World 2, So I Married An Axe Murderer, and as Fat Bastard in the last two Austin Powers movies.  I should point out that he is Canadian.
• Originally, Steven Spielberg was going to produce the movie in 1991 with Bill Murray as Shrek and Steve Martin as Donkey.  That movie would have been hand-drawn and probably not as good.
• Robin Williams was going to do a voice in the movie but had a huge falling out with producer Jeffrey Katzenberg and refused to work with him.
• In the original script, Shrek was supposed to be a knight and was going to rescue Donkey from a wicked witch.

"He does look more like the character than Mike Myers does."