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Get ready for more adventures with Scooby and the gang. Netflix has landed Scooby-Doo! The Live Action Series following bidding against multiple other outlets, per Deadline. The streaming service has given the series a script-to-series order.
The project comes from Greg Berlanti and Berlanti Productions, with Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg writing the series.
This new live-action series will update the popular cartoon from Hanna-Barbera, which first premiered in 1969. Featuring Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Shaggy Rogers, and their talking Great Dane, Scooby-Doo, the cartoon follows the teens as they investigate mysteries.
Over the past 55 years, viewers have seen several series incarnations of Scooby and his friends. There have been four live-action movies featuring the entire gang and another, which revolves around Daphne & Velma. Most recently, the adult animated Velma series has been released on Max. The latest animated series for kids, Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, ran for two seasons and 52 episodes.
Additional details and a premiere date for Scooby-Doo! The Live Action Series will be announced in the future.
What do you think? Are you a fan of this famous cartoon franchise? Will you check out the new series when it arrives on Netflix?
Scooby Doo movie great
I’d rather they did an animated series. Live action may not work.
The live action movies worked so I don’t see this not working out. If they stick to it being a monster per episode series like the cartoons it would be a fun show. I don’t want it to go the way of a teen drama with very little mystery solving and lots of BS teenage drama. Then followed by waiting a few episodes to see that the monster was the janitor trying to scare people away so he can have the treasure to himself.
I’d like to be happy, but sadly, I fear they will find a way to ruin it.