Listen to Chris Farley’s very different version of Shrek

A Chris Farley Shrek. New footage arrives online showing Chris Farley portraying a very different Shrek.

Chris Farley was a comedy legend that was taken from us too soon. The legendary star died of a drug overdose in 1997 at the age of just 33. At the time of his death, Farley was working on a brand new animated film called Shrek, and early test footage for that film has just been leaked online featuring the actor’s voice opposite fellow former Saturday Night Live star, Eddie Murphy, who voices Donkey.

Farley’s Shrek is very different to the one we’ve all come to love by Mike Myers over the years, though equally as funny. A new documentary from Brent Hodge and Derik Murray called I Am Chris Farley is releasing in the United States this month, which Farley’s Shrek heavily features.

“Originally the Shrek character was a little bit more like Chris, like a humble, bumbling innocent guy,” Chris’s brother Kevin Farley recently told Yahoo!

Thee following footage just leaked on YouTube (via Reddit).

Check out Farley’s comedy genius with him voicing green ogre Shrek, accompanied by original storyboards for the film.

I Am Chris Farley is currently playing across America. The documentary currently has no UK release planned.

I Am Chris Farley:

Chris Farley lived his life full speed and committed to make everyone around him laugh out loud, and I Am Chris Farley will tell his hilarious, touching and wildly entertaining story for the first time ever – from his early days in Madison, Wisconsin, and at Marquette University, through his work at the legendary Second City to his rapid rise to the top of the comedy world on “Saturday Night Live” and in hit films like Tommy Boy and Black Sheep.

The film showcases the performer’s most memorable characters and skits from television and film, paired with iconic photographs, home movies and family snapshots, to fully round out the story of this comedy legend – a bear of a man who nevertheless had remarkable grace and physicality. Clips from Farley’s most memorable performances fill the documentary, from his breathtaking Chippendales audition alongside Patrick Swayze, to his comically ill-fated salesman in Tommy Boy, to his diatribes as Matt Foley, the motivational speaker who “lives in a van down by the river!”