After getting his hands The Addams Family and Avatar: The Last Airbender, Netflix is BRINGING Scooby-Doo in live-action. Whatever one thinks of this adaptation, it gets a soft seal of approval from franchise alum Matthew Lillard just for being there.

Recently, the long-time Shaggy spoke Fun every week He was “excited” to hear of a new installment, saying the show had gone years without an animated series and “had to come back.” For him, it serves an important function as introducing children to the idea of ​​ghost stories and storytelling in general, and teaches children important lessons such as “friendship and working together as a gang and working together to solve mysteries.” And also that “it’s usually a dangerous white man behind a mask. These are the things that kids need to know.”

Lillard also used his platform to make a simple request to Netflix: let it go Scooby-Doo packing Scooby-Doo and not another show wearing its skin. A surprise difficult question in recent years, as a self-professed purist, he believes that the streamer should “keep what’s tried and true and take their hack out of it. (…) The core of it is friendship. It’s great, and I hope they keep that.”

According to the logline, Shaggy and Daphne are old summer camp friends who team up with Velma and Fred to investigate a likely supernatural murder, with Scooby as their only witness. Despite being billed as a “modern reimagining,” the potential is certainly there for Netflix to heed Lillard’s words, but we’ll have to wait for the show to air to see how the series fares. And when that doesn’t happen, there always is the classics and the upcoming anime.

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