(Broadway,Here I Come!)
Shrek is to be made into a Broadway musical.
The stage version of the DreamWorks animated film will open in Seattle in August before moving to New York.
The movie was a huge hit on its release in 2001 and went on to spawn two sequels, with a third scheduled for release in 2010.
Show director Jason Moore has been working on the project for three years and said it will reveal more about central characters Shrek, Donkey and Princess Fiona than the original film.
He told Perez Hilton: "It's the plot of the first Shrek movie. But because we are going deeper into the emotional lives and back stories of the characters, we reveal things about them that none of the movies revealed."
The stage version of the DreamWorks animated film will open in Seattle in August before moving to New York.
The movie was a huge hit on its release in 2001 and went on to spawn two sequels, with a third scheduled for release in 2010.
Show director Jason Moore has been working on the project for three years and said it will reveal more about central characters Shrek, Donkey and Princess Fiona than the original film.
He told Perez Hilton: "It's the plot of the first Shrek movie. But because we are going deeper into the emotional lives and back stories of the characters, we reveal things about them that none of the movies revealed."
