A live-action series adaptation of Warner Bros.'s Scooby-Doo has been greenlit at Netflix. The series, revolving around the titular Great Dune and the mystery-solving teenagers, will come from creators Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg and executive producer Greg Berlanti. Production for the series has been underway for nearly a year.
Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg also write the series from characters created by Hanna-Barbera. Yet to be titled, the upcoming adaptation will revolve around the origins of the Mystery Inc. group and the first case that got them all together.
Netflix described the upcoming Scooby-Doo series as: In this modern reimagining, old friends Shaggy and Daphne team up at summer camp with scientific townie Velma and the strange but handsome Fred to solve the mystery of a lonely lost Great Dane puppy — who may have witnessed a supernatural murder.
Midnight Radio's Applebaum and Rosenberg will serve as executive producers and showrunners of the upcoming live-action adaptation. Other executive producers are Berlanti Productions' Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, Midnight Radio's Andre Nemec, and Jeff Pinkner.
Created in 1969 by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, the first animated series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was launched by Hanna-Barbera in 1986.
This series won't be the first time that Scooby-Doo live adaptation is made. The 2002 Scooby-Doo adaptation starred Freddie Prinze Jr as Fred, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy, and Linda Cardellini as Velma. A sequel with the same cast, titled Scooby-Doo: Monsters, was released in 2004.
The latest animated spinoff, Velma, created by Mindy Kaling, aired for two seasons on Max, which also houses the extensive Scooby-Doo! library.