Zoinks! Scooby-Doo returns to live-action, after 2 feature films (2002 & 2004) and some Chumptoon Network films, but this time, it's an 8 episode series on Netflix. Start date not yet announced, but the streamer announced today that the project is moving forward.
Courtesy Warner Bros. Discovery
It's a prequel to the franchise, in which Shaggy & Daphne are at summer camp searching for a missing dog (Scooby), and meet Velma & Fred along the way. Greg Berlanti and his staff are attached to the series, which wouldn't be the first for Berlanti at Netflix, since You moved over from Lifetime a few years back.
Stay tooned.
2 comments:
On one hand, yet another prequel story with the gang meeting for the first time, and another Warners/Netflix-approved chance for Greg Berlanti to mutate a beloved childhood character into a thoroughly unpleasant form (and I actually like "Riverdale" for going so far off the rails). On the other, Scooby is probably the one franchise whose core formula lends itself well to bingeworthy episodic miniseries (see the "Mystery Incorporated" reboot for this trend at its best, or the "Scooby Apocalypse" comic for intruige of a different sort). I'll give it a look since I'm a superfan, and at least it's not "Velma."
Long as they don't treat Fred like an airhead, I'm good with it.
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