After casting Mckenna Grace as its fearless fashionista Daphne Blake, Netflix’s live-action Scooby-Doo series has cast the rest of the Mystery Inc. gang. Deadline reports that three new actors have joined the as-yet-untitled series alongside Grace, including Tanner Hagen as Shaggy, Abby Ryder Fortson as Velma, and Maxwell Jenkins as Fred.
While no news has been announced about who will voice the titular mystery-solving Great Dane, this is the first major development to be announced for the Scooby-Doo show, which according to Deadline will “[craft] an origin story of how the Mystery Inc. group got together and first teamed up to crack the haunting case that started it all.” The series’ synopsis is as follows:
During their final summer at camp, old friends Shaggy and Daphne get embroiled in a haunting mystery surrounding a lonely lost Great Dane puppy that may have been a witness to a supernatural murder. Together with the pragmatic and scientific townie, Velma, and the strange, but ever so handsome new kid, Freddy, 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.
Hagen is the only relative newcomer in the cast, with his only major role up til now being a featured character in an episode of The Pitt, but the rest, however, have plenty of experience with major IPs. Grace is, of course, a blossoming scream queen, having starred recently in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 and Scream 7, while Fortson is best known for playing Paul Rudd’s daughter in the first two Ant-Man films, and Jenkins starred in the sadly cancelled Kevin Bacon horror series The Bondsman, as well as playing Will Robinson in Netflix’s Lost in Space reboot.
The live-action Scooby-Doo series will be helmed by writers/showrunners Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg. Executive producers include André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Leigh London Redman. This is, obviously, the latest in a long line of live-action versions of the famous cartoon, a list that most notably includes two films starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, and Linda Cardellini. Maybe we can hope for some cameos?
No release date has been set for Netflix’s Scooby-Doo series. Stay tuned to FANGORIA for more updates.
