#Scooby doo live action cast movie#

#Scooby doo live action cast movie#

appeared in the sole season of the Punky Brewster reboot and can currently be seen in Netflix’s holiday movie Christmas With You. Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini starred as the members of the Mystery Inc. Most of the stars, like Sarah Michelle Gellar and Linda Cardellini, are still acting today. However, James Gunn, who wrote the Scooby-Doo movies, did express interest in an R-rated version if he wasn’t so busy being part of the biggest franchise in movie history.Īs of late, Freddie Prinze Jr. 'Scooby-Doo' premiered 20 years ago starring big names like Matthew Lillard and Freddie Prinze Jr. There was talk of a third installment but it was eventually abandoned. “All these people that had grown up loving those movies started reaching out…and then I got what I felt was a more accurate perspective on what that movie meant to people because I was no longer viewing it through the lenses of the studio.” acknowledges that the movies have a wide fan base that shouldn’t get in the way of a salary dispute. (OK, Shaggy may be more iconic, but the Mystery Machine is empty without all four members.) After all, no one human character in the ensemble is more of the lead than the other. The first Scooby-Doo was a box office winner for Warner Bros., pulling in $275 million worldwide, so it’s quite a surprise that the studio would cut his salary and look to raise the other cast members’. “Like we made you guys three-quarters of a billion dollars, you can’t afford to pay them what I’m making on this? Screw that.” “I remember thinking, ‘Hold up, who’s giving them the raise? Me or y’all?’” he said. Boy, that last one must have made for awkward dinner conversation. reflected on some of his bigger movies, revealing that despite the major success of 2002’s Scooby-Doo, the actor had to take a salary cut for the 2004 sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, while his co-stars–Matthew Lillard (Shaggy), Linda Cardellini (Velma) and wife Sarah Michelle Gellar (Daphne) appeared to get a bump in their checks. In a recent profile by Esquire, Freddie Prinze Jr. He's glad Scooby-Doo is making it to the.

Why was he paid less than his co-stars for the sequel, Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed? Scooby-Doo : Scooby-Doo is the titular character of the franchise and is a Great Dane dog who loves to solve mysteries with his human friends. who played Fred in the live-action film, alongside wife Sarah Michelle Geller as Daphne, seems to be taking it all in stride. The untitled Scooby-Doo animated feature from Warner Brothers is slated for a May 2020 release date.Zoinks! Freddie Prinze Jr., who played Fred (last name Jones, for you pop culture trivia buffs) in the Scooby-Doo movies, has come out with a mystery greater than any the gang has solved before. He took to Twitter to express his disappointment. Matthew Lillard who played the live action Shaggy in the first Scooby-Doo film as well as Monsters Unleashed took over voicing the character in every subsequent animated adventure ever since. Unfortunately not everyone is excited for the new project. This will be the first time Scooby has been on the big screen since the last live-action Scooby-Doo film Monsters Unleashed in 2004. Will Forte (Last Man on Earth) will take on the role of Scooby’s best friend and fellow scaredy-cat Shaggy and Tracy Morgan (The Last O.G.) will take on the role of Captain Caveman.Ĭaptain Caveman is not a member of the Scooby gang, but his inclusion in the cast is based on the plot which will have the Scooby gang joining forces with other members of the Hanna-Barbera universe to save it from Dick Dastardly. Gina Rodriguez (Annihilation) will voice resident genius Velma. Welker has been voicing Scooby-Doo and Mystery Inc leader Fred Jones since 1969. Tony Cervone (Scooby-Doo and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery) has been tapped to direct the feature.įrank Welker will voice the title character. So far, four actors have already closed deals to appear in the film produced by Chris Columbus, Allison Abbate and Charles Roven. In an exclusive to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Brothers both announces that they are creating a new Scooby-Doo animated feature as well as who will voice the iconic Hanna-Barbera characters.