Matthew Lillard Is Glad 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 mushy seal of approval from franchise alum Matthew Lillard only for current.

Just lately, the longtime Shaggy instructed Entertainment Weekly he was “actually pleased” to listen to of a brand new installment, saying the present’s gone years with out an animated collection and “wants to come back again.” To him, it serves a key perform as introducing children to the concept of ghost tales and storytelling total, and teaches children necessary classes like “friendship and sticking collectively as a gang and dealing collectively to unravel mysteries.” And likewise that “usually it’s a harmful white man behind a masks. These are the issues that children should 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 carrying its pores and skin. A surprisingly tough ask in recent times, 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 beautiful, and I hope that they maintain onto that.”

In response to the logline, Shaggy and Daphne are previous summer time camp mates who group up with Velma and Fred to uncover a doubtlessly 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 come back out to see how the collection fares. And if that doesn’t pan out, there’s all the time the classics and the upcoming anime.

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