Shrek.movie: New

Donkey. It’s 7 a.m. I just had my third oatmeal.

(without looking up from her book) Go, Shrek.

You’ve been reorganizing the mud by texture. You miss being an ogre. Not the fighting — the feeling. Go find your flower. I’ll hold down the swamp.

He was never meant to be this comfortable. new shrek.movie

Donkey bursts through the reeds on a rusty, creaking cart pulled by two very unenthusiastic pigeons.

FADE IN on the swamp. It’s cleaner than ever. Little welcome mats are out. Fionas in a rocking chair, reading a book by ogre-light. Three teenage ogre children — FERGUS, FARKLE, and FELICIA — scroll on something that looks like a magical glowing stone tablet (“CackleChat”).

You analyze them, Shrek. Last week you said “that one had structural integrity but lacked tonal variety.” Donkey

SHREK, 50s, softer around the middle, with reading glasses and a fishing rod, sits on his outhouse-turned-patio.

(to a passing frog) You got mail? No. I got nothing . Not even a dragon scale in my mud bath anymore.

Shrek. You stepped on a Lego last Tuesday and cried for twenty minutes. You need this. (without looking up from her book) Go, Shrek

Here’s a concept for a new Shrek movie, written in the style of an official logline and opening scene tease.

Twenty years after trading his swamp for peace and quiet, a restless and empty-nesting Shrek is dragged by Donkey on a chaotic road trip across the outer realms of Far Far Away to find a legendary “Funk-El” flower — only to discover that the real villain isn’t a lord or a fairy-tale monster, but middle-aged irrelevance itself.

Mm-hmm. Anyway — Puss found a map. In a bottle. In the stomach of a whale. Classic Tuesday.