A Scooby-Doo Live-Action Series Is Happening at Netflix

The Scooby gang will be taking on a new era of ghost hunting mysteries in an upcoming Scooby-Doo series at Netflix from Josh Applebaum and Scott Rosenberg (writers of the recent Jumanji films). The eight-episode series will be a Berlanti Productions reboot of the iconic Hanna-Barbera cartoon about those meddling kids getting into spooky hijinks—with the help of the goodest crime-sniffing boy, Scooby. Sure, he’s primarily snack-oriented, but we all grew up knowing that whenever there’s a case of seemingly supernatural suspicion, the gang would get to the bottom of it. Following the live-action footsteps of James Gunn and Raja Gosnell’s early 2000s Scooby-Doo films, the upcoming Netflix show will explore a 21st century version of Mystery Inc. Netflix’s press release describes the show as “a modern reimagining of the iconic mystery-solving group of teens and their very special dog.” It’s a project that makes sense for the streamer behind the similarly supernatural live-action series Wed ... Read full article.