A brand new live-action Scooby-Doo sequence is formally taking place at Netflix and the present is about to inform the story of how the well-known mystery-solving workforce got here collectively. Apparently that origin story includes a younger Scooby witnessing a homicide after which vanishing.
On March 26, as reported by Selection, Netflix and Warner Bros. formally introduced a brand new eight-episode live-action Scooby-Doo sequence was within the works. The present doesn’t have a launch date but however will likely be be written by showrunners Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg. The duo are additionally producing the untitled sequence by way of their manufacturing firm, Midnight Radio. The present was beforehand reported to exist in 2024.
Right here’s the official logline for the upcoming Scooby present:
Throughout their ultimate summer season at camp, outdated associates Shaggy and Daphne get embroiled in a haunting thriller surrounding a lonely misplaced Nice Dane pet that will have been a witness to a supernatural homicide. Along with the pragmatic and scientific townie, Velma, and the unusual, however ever so good-looking new child, Freddy, they got down to resolve the case that’s pulling every of them right into a creepy nightmare that threatens to reveal all of their secrets and techniques.
I didn’t have a “Scooby-Doo Watches A Particular person Die” present on my 2025 bingo card, however right here we’re. After all, it’s attainable that by the top of the primary season it will likely be revealed that no person died and it was all a rip-off by some indignant janitor or wealthy landowner. Perhaps a masks will even be ripped off of somebody’s face in a dramatic trend?
“We’re thrilled to collaborate with our longstanding companions at Berlanti Productions and with Midnight Radio to convey the legendary Scooby-Doo franchise to a live-action sequence for the primary time,” stated Clancy Collins White, president of inventive affairs for Warner Bros. Tv. “It’s no thriller why audiences proceed to like these iconic characters after greater than a half century. We’re excited for a brand new technology to find Thriller Inc. And we’re grateful to our companions at Netflix for the chance.”
“Thriller, Inc. is again in enterprise! We’re excited to convey Scooby-Doo to TV as a live-action sequence for the primary time,” stated Peter Friedlander, vice chairman of scripted sequence for Netflix.
I can’t watch for this present to randomly drop on Netflix with little advertising, get buried by the algorithm and by no means get a second season whereas a couple of indignant followers complain about it the entire time.
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