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1. It all started with a book. And we don't mean the collection of fairytales the titular ogre was pawing through on the toilet in the opening scene of Shrek. William Steig's 1990 children's book Shrek! flipped the traditional girl-meets-her-prince-charming-and-they-live-happily-ever-after narrative on its head and it was beloved by producer John Williams' kids.
"They loved it and showed it to him," eventual star Mike Myers told Cinema.com of the film's origin. "Then he brought it to Jeffrey Katzenberg at DreamWorks, and he got DreamWorks interested in it. So they ended up turning this little 28-page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him."
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