The Next 'Scooby-Doo' Series Is Live-Action And Headed To Netflix

Jinkies! Mystery Incorporated is headed to a new format!

What’s new, Scooby-Doo? We’ll see you back in CG soon? On April 25, Max released the second season of the current series in the 55-year-old franchise, the adult-oriented Velma, the same day Netflix premiered their latest series with Berlanti Productions, Dead Boy Detectives. Now it’s been announced that they will be the next to take on the franchise born at Hanna-Barbera with a new live-action series that is also from Warner Bros. Television.

Currently titled Scooby-Doo! The Live-Action Series, the project was a hot commodity, garnering interest from top buyers, landing at Netflix with a premium, script-to-series commitment. It will be the first TV series in the franchise since A Pup Named Scooby-Doo ended in 1991 on ABC that will not call a Warner Bros.-owned platform its home, with What’s New and Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get A Clue airing on Kids WB!, Mystery Incorporated on Cartoon Network, which shared Be Cool with the Boomerang streaming service where Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? began before moving to HBO Max. This also marks the fourth foray into live action, following the pair of Raja Gosnell-directed and James Gunn-written theatrical films in 2002 and 2004 where Matthew Lillard first played Shaggy before becoming his regular voice actor, the pair of TV movies, The Mystery Begins and Curse of the Lake Monster that aired in 2009 and 2010 respectively on Cartoon Network starring Robbie Amell (a two-time Berlanti alum) and Hayley Kiyoko, and the 2018 direct-to-video Daphne & Velma starring Sarah Jeffery and Sarah Gilman. If there’s even a direct-to-video film this year as there has been at least one of every year since Zombie Island, we don’t know. Still, audiences are pretty on edge since the Discovery regime scrapped Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Pups and infamously wrote off Scoob! Holiday Haunt while Velma continued to live to violent reception.

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The series is written by Josh Appelbaum, who co-wrote Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows & Scott Rosenberg, who co-wrote the recent Jumanji movies. Their respective partners, André Nemec and Jeff Pinkner, are executive producers with them under their Midnight Radio banner, while Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Leigh London Redman do so for Berlanti Productions. Berlanti Productions’ Jonathan Gabay and Midnight Radio’s Adrienne Erickson co-executive produce. With Netflix, Berlanti Productions is known for Lifetime transplant You, as well as Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, as it is part of the Archie universe, specifically Riverdale’s iteration on The CW, where the company produced the entire Arrowverse, as well as Superman & Lois, which started out as part of it. It and You are headed to their final seasons. Together, Appelbaum and Rosenberg have recently executive produced the live-action Cowboy Bebop series, Prime Video’s Citadel and MGM+’s From.

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Source: Deadline