Let’s hope McKenna Grace knows a good Scooby-Snack recipe, because she’s about to step into one of animation’s most iconic roles while playing Daphne Blake for Netflix‘s live-action Scooby-Doo series. The project, from Midnight Radio, Berlanti Productions, and Warner Bros. Television, is gaining steam as casting announcements for the Mystery Incorporated gang begin to surface.
What’s Netflix’s Scooby-Doo series about?
Midnight Radio’s Josh Applebaum and Scott Rosenberg (Cowboy Bebop) will write the untitled Scooby-Doo series, which tells the origin story of the group and how they came to work their first case. Here’s a description of the series, courtesy of Deadline’s official report: 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.
Grace has played Daphne before
Funnily enough, this is not the first time McKenna Grace has played Daphne Blane. She voiced Young Daphne in the 2020 animated feature Scoob! before landing her role as Phoebe in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. She reprised her Ghostbusters role in 2024 for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and recently starred in the adaptations of Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. She recently completed work on the highly anticipated horror sequel Scream 7, starring opposite Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Isabel May, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Anna Camp, Joel McHale, Michelle Rudolph, Jimmy Tatro, Asa Germann, and David Arquette.
She’s also playing Maysilee Donner in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which stars Elle Fanning, Jesse Plemons, Joseph Zada, Jennifer Lawrence, Ralph Finnes, Maya Hawke, Josh Hutcherson, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, Iris Apatow, Lili Taylor, and more.
Hoping for the best
While I’m excited about Netflix’s live-action Scooby-Doo series, I hope it finds a broader audience than Applebaum and Rosenberg’s Cowboy Bebop, which deserved better than it got. The premise for Scooby-Doo is perfect for a series adaptation, provided the chemistry between the Mystery Incorporated characters is solid, and the effects team doesn’t go overboard with their version of Scooby. I could see a live-action Scooby-Doo series working as well as Tim Burton’s Wednesday, if all the pieces come together. My fingers are officially crossed.
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