A Live-Action 'Scooby-Doo' Series Is In The Works At Netflix

TV & Film

May 3

Scooby, Fred, Velma, Daphne, and the Mystery Machine will be returning to live-action courtesy of Netflix. Not that they ever really left. The Hanna-Barbera cartoon has been repeatedly rebooted since it first screened on CBS in 1969. The Cartoon Network, ABC, Warner Bros, and even WrestleMania have all had a turn. The most recent was Mindy Kaling’s Velma, but it bombed with an average audience score of just 9% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Josh Applebaum (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise) and Scott Rosenberg (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle/Next Level, Venom) have signed on to write the script for Netflix. The new Scooby-Doo series will be produced by Midnight Radio, therefore this pair will likely executive produce along with André Nemec. This studio has been responsible for several huge hits, including The Amazing Spiderman 2, Lost, Gone in Sixty Seconds, and Alias. The Berlanti Productions creative team, Jonathan Gabay (Superman and Lois, Gotham Knights) and Adrienne Erickson (From, High Fidelity) are also onboard as additional executive producers. Berlanti Productions is a subsidiary of Warner Bros Discovery, who still hold the original Hanna-Barbera rights.

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Will Netflix win out where others have failed? So far, the only successful live-action Scooby-Doo is the cult movie from the early 00s (grossing 275 million dollars worldwide on a production budget of 84 million) that starred Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Matthew Lillard. But Netflix has an excellent history of adaptions and after Wednesday and the Last Airbender, they must be feeling confident. Just don’t bring up Death Note.

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