Scooby-Doo live-action in works, to stream on Netflix

Scooby Dooby Doo is back!

Our beloved cartoon dog is making a comeback in a live-action Scooby-Doo series on Netflix. Variety confirmed the news as a one-hour drama project has been given a green light. 

According to the Variety report, a deal has been worked out between the streamer and the makers with a script-to-series commitment. At the moment, there’s no news on the exact plot but it will surely be based on the epic Hanna-Barbera cartoon which was a massive rage since it debuted in 1969. It was developed by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and was conceived by CBS television executive Fred Silverman. Warner Bros. Television will produce the live-action. The studio had previously worked with the streamer on Dead Boys Detectives series.

The Scooby-Doo live-action will have Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg on board as writers who will also executive produce along with André Nemec and Jeff Pinkner under their Midnight Radio banner. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Leigh London Redman will executive produce via Berlanti Productions. 

Jonathan Gabay of Berlanti Productions and Adrienne Erickson will co-executive produce.

While it surely seems like the first, there has been a live-action remake of the cult cartoon in 2002 too. Scooby-Doo was released in 2002 and starred Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, and Linda Cardellini, with Neil Fanning voicing Scooby. The film was a huge box office success.

Then a sequel with the same cast, Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed, came out in 2004. There was also the live-action TV film Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins and its sequel which released in 2009 and 2010, respectively.

The audiences have been teased with a wide range of Scooby-Doo animated projects in the past. The original cartoon series was released in the 1960s. There have been multiple iterations of the same.