The live-action “Scooby-Doo” series at Netflix has found its Mystery Inc. gang.
Maxwell Jenkins has been tapped to play group leader Fred Jones, Tanner Hagen to play Norville “Shaggy” Rogers, and Abby Ryder Fortson as Velma Dinkley.
They join previously announced cast member Mckenna Grace, who is set for the role of Daphne.
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Netflix picked up the show for eight episodes in March 2025.
The official logline describes it as a modern reimagining of the popular cartoon show. “During their final summer at camp, old friends Shaggy (Hagen) and Daphne (Grace) get embroiled in a haunting mystery surrounding a lonely lost Great Dane puppy that may have been a witness to a supernatural murder,” the logline reads. “Together with the pragmatic and scientific townie, Velma (Fortson), and the strange, but ever so handsome new kid, Freddy (Jenkins), they set out to solve the case that is pulling each of them into a creepy nightmare that threatens to expose all of their secrets.”
Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg serve as writers and showrunners 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. Toby Haynes will executive produce and direct the first episode.
Warner Bros. Television will produce. Berlanti Productions is currently under an overall deal at WBTV.
This will not be the first live-action Scooby-Doo project to make it to the screen. Most famously, “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 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 were released in 2009 and 2010.
In addition, there have 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 have followed over the years, spanning multiple animated series and films.
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