Matthew Lillard Is Comfortable Netflix Is Bringing ‘Scooby-Doo’ Again

After getting its palms on The Addams Family and Avatar: The Last Airbender, Netflix is bringing Scooby-Doo to live-action. No matter one thinks about that eventual adaptation, it’s gotten a tender seal of approval from franchise alum Matthew Lillard only for current.

Not too long ago, the longtime Shaggy instructed Entertainment Weekly he was “actually completely satisfied” to listen to of a brand new installment, saying the present’s gone years with out an animated sequence and “wants to return again.” To him, it serves a key perform as introducing children to the concept of ghost tales and storytelling total, and teaches children essential classes like “friendship and sticking collectively as a gang and dealing collectively to resolve mysteries.” And in addition that “usually it’s a harmful white man behind a masks. These are the issues that youngsters must study.”

Lillard additionally used his platform to make a easy requesto to Netflix: let its Scooby-Doo simply be Scooby-Doo and never one other present sporting its pores and skin. A surprisingly tough ask lately, as a self-professed purist, he believes it’d behoove the streamer to “maintain onto what’s tried and true and take their hack at it. […] The core of it’s actually about friendship. It’s actually pretty, and I hope that they maintain onto that.”

In accordance with the logline, Shaggy and Daphne are previous summer time camp mates who group up with Velma and Fred to uncover a probably supernatural homicide, with Scooby as their solely witness. Regardless of being introduced as a “trendy reimagining,” the potential’s undoubtedly there for Netflix to heed Lillard’s phrases, however we’ll have to attend for the present to return out to see how the sequence fares. And if that doesn’t pan out, there’s at all times the classics and the upcoming anime.

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