"Scooby-Doo" Live-Action Series in Development at Netflix

A live-action Scooby-Doo series may be coming to Netflix.

Sources disclosed that a one-hour drama project is nearing a deal at the giant streamer with a script-to-series commitment. Warner Bros. Television will produce, with the studio recently launching the “Dead Boys Detectives” series at Netflix.

Plot details are being kept under wraps aside from the fact it will be based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon. 

Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg serve as writers and 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 (the company is currently under an overall deal at WBTV). Jonathan Gabay of Berlanti Productions and Adrienne Erickson will co-executive produce.

Should the project go forward, it would not be the first live-action Scooby-Doo project to make it to the small screen. 

Most famously, “Scooby-Doo” was made into a movie in 2002 and starred Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, and Linda Cardellini, with Neil Fanning voicing Scooby. The film was a box office success, generating over $250 million worldwide. 

A sequel with the same cast, “Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed,” came out in 2004 and grossed over $180 million. There was also the live-action TV film “Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins” and its sequel that was released in 2009 and 2010.

There has also been a wide range of Scooby-Doo animated projects over the years, beginning with the original cartoon series in the late 1960s. Various incarnations followed over the years, spanning multiple animated series and movies. 

Most recently, the animated film “Scoob! Holiday Haunt” was meant to be released on Max but was scrapped in a cost-cutting move. Currently, Max airs the animated series “Velma,” with Mindy Kaling voicing the bespectacled member of the Mystery Inc. gang.