Shrek 2 is being remade shot-for-shot by over 800 filmmakers and the trailer is just as weird and wonderful as you'd expect
Shrek 2 Retold is a new shot-by-shot re-imagining of Shrek 2
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We’ve seen a lot while doing this job:Homelander jorkin’ it,The Walking Dead’s so-bad-it’s-good CGI deer, andHenry Cavill’s gigantic dog, to name but a few.
Not many, though, are quite as weird and wonderful as Shrek 2 Retold, something that does exactly what it says on the tin but through the anarchic lens of hundreds of creatives.
As per the makers3GI, Shrek 2 Retold is ‘a crowd-sourced, scene-for-scene remake of the greatest sequel ever told.’ Over 800 ‘animators, filmmakers, musicians, and storytellers’ from familiar faces – Spider-Verse’s Phil Lord and Chris Miller, plus the late Gilbert Gottfried feature – to slightly more obscure, but no less talented, artists and animators getting their chance to shine.
3GI Industries has also worked on similar remake projects, including Shrek Retold and Sonic Rebuilt, a shot-for-shot remake of the 1996 Sonic the Hedgehog OVA.
Shrek 2 …