A Live-Action ‘Scooby-Doo’ Series Is Coming to Netflix

Netflix loves a live-action model of an iconic work of animation — and they’re about to make one other.

Following on the heels of One Piece and Avatar: The Final Airbender and Cowboy Bebop the streaming service introduced immediately that they’re growing a live-action collection “that can uncover how everybody’s favourite mystery-solving gang, and their beloved canine, first teamed as much as crack the haunting case that began all of it.”

In different phrases: Dwell-action Scooby-Doo.

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Created in 1969 by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears for Hanna-Barbera, the Scooby-Doo franchise has endured for many years — largely as a collection of animated TV exhibits concerning the titular pooch and his human buddies fixing mysteries. There was one notable live-action model earlier than, however that was a two-film film franchise, 2002’s Scooby-Doo and 2004’s Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, each of which have been written by future Marvel and DC filmmaker James Gunn.

Right here is how Netflix describes this new collection:

A contemporary reimagining of the enduring mystery-solving group of teenagers and their very particular canine. Throughout their remaining summer season at camp, previous associates Shaggy and Daphne get embroiled in a haunting thriller surrounding a lonely misplaced Nice Dane pet that will have been a witness to a supernatural homicide. Along with the pragmatic and scientific townie, Velma, and the unusual, however ever so good-looking new child, Freddy, they got down to remedy the case that’s pulling every of them right into a creepy nightmare that threatens to reveal all of their secrets and techniques.

Netflix says its live-action Scooby-Doo collection will run for eight episodes.