{"id":16022,"date":"2026-02-01T20:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/matthew-lillard-is-happy-netflix-is-bringing-scooby-doo-back\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T20:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:18:29","slug":"matthew-lillard-is-happy-netflix-is-bringing-scooby-doo-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/matthew-lillard-is-happy-netflix-is-bringing-scooby-doo-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Lillard Is Happy Netflix Is Bringing &#8216;Scooby-Doo&#8217; Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scooby-doo-1280x853.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After getting its hands on\u00a0<em>The Addams Family\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Avatar: The Last Airbender,\u00a0<\/em>Netflix is bringing <em>Scooby-Doo\u00a0<\/em>to live-action. Whatever one thinks about that eventual adaptation, it\u2019s gotten a soft seal of approval from franchise alum Matthew Lillard just for existing.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the longtime Shaggy told Entertainment Weekly he was \u201creally happy\u201d to hear of a new installment, saying the show\u2019s gone years without an animated series and \u201cneeds to come back.\u201d To him, it serves a key function as introducing kids to the idea of ghost stories and storytelling overall, and teaches kids important lessons like \u201cfriendship and sticking together as a gang and working together to solve mysteries.\u201d And also that \u201cnormally it\u2019s a dangerous white man behind a mask. These are the things that kids have to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lillard also used his platform to make a simple requesto to Netflix: let its <em>Scooby-Doo <\/em>just be <em>Scooby-Doo\u00a0<\/em>and not another show wearing its skin. A surprisingly tough ask in recent years, as a self-professed purist, he believes it\u2019d behoove the streamer to \u201chold onto what\u2019s tried and true and take their hack at it. [\u2026] The core of it is really about friendship. It\u2019s really lovely, and I hope that they hold onto that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the logline, Shaggy and Daphne are old summer camp friends who team up with Velma and Fred to uncover a potentially supernatural murder, with Scooby as their only witness. Despite being announced as a \u201cmodern reimagining,\u201d the potential\u2019s definitely there for Netflix to heed Lillard\u2019s words, but we\u2019ll have to wait for the show to come out to see how the series fares. And if that doesn\u2019t pan out, there\u2019s always the classics and the upcoming anime.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After getting its hands on\u00a0The Addams Family\u00a0and\u00a0Avatar: The Last Airbender,\u00a0Netflix is bringing Scooby-Doo\u00a0to live-action. Whatever one thinks about that eventual adaptation, it\u2019s gotten a soft seal of approval from franchise alum Matthew Lillard just for existing. Recently, the longtime Shaggy told Entertainment Weekly he was \u201creally happy\u201d to hear of a new installment, saying the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Scooby-doo-1200x675.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}