There have been numerous reboots and reinterpretations of Scooby-Doo since Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the talking dog and his teenage companions for the first animated series in the franchise in 1969. Now, Scooby-Doo: The Live-Action Series is heading to Netflix with a script-to-series order.
Deadline broke the story, and also revealed that the new series will be produced by Greg Berlanti‘s Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television. Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg–both of whom executive produced Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop series–created the new take on Scooby and his friends, which is described as “an update of the popular cartoon.”
The original animated series and most of its follow-up shows have revolved around Scooby, his best friend Shaggy Rogers, and their pals Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, and Velma Dinkley. Together, they travel the country and solve supernatural mysteries that usually turn out to be old men in Halloween costumes. However, a few incarnations of the show have embraced actual supernatural elements in the decades after the first series aired.
Scooby-Doo’s most prominent live-action adaptation to date was the 2002 feature film, featuring Freddie Prinze Jr. as Fred, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy, Linda Cardellini as Velma, and Neil Fanning as the voice of Scooby. The sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, arrived in 2004 and it maintained the same cast. All of the subsequent live-action Scooby-Doo movies were either made for Cartoon Network or went straight to DVD.
Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Leigh London Redman will executive produce Scooby-Doo: The Live-Action Series alongside Appelbaum, Rosenberg, André Nemec, and Jeff Pinkner. The show doesn’t currently have a release date or a production window.
