Scooby Doo's Daphne & Velma Getting A Movie Spinoff

Ever since I was a kid, the one cartoon I always go back to even now is Scooby-Doo. It helps that my 59-year-old dad is also a fan of the monster haunting teenagers.

When they made the live-action film back in the early 2000’s while casting was brilliant and James Gunn (yes that James Gunn, the Guardians of the Galaxy James Gunn) writing both stories, they didn’t seem to hit well with a massive drop from the first to the second film.

However, after a decade away from the big screen but still entertaining kids young and old it looks like Warner Bros are making another attempt at a live action, but making a spin-off first.

According to Variety, this live-action spin-off of Mystery Inc will focus on Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley before they meet Scooby and the gang.

The untitled Daphne and Velma film will be produced by Jennifer and Ashley Tisdale’s production company Blonde Girl and they’ve cast Descendants’ Sarah Jeffery and I Didn’t Do It’s Sarah Gilman as Daphne and Velma.

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As for the story, it goes like this, “The mystery-solving teens are best friends but have only met online – until Daphne transfers to Velma’s school, Ridge Valley High, stocked with high-tech gadgetry by the school’s benefactor, tech billionaire Tobias Bloom. While their peers vie for a coveted internship at Bloom’s company, Daphne and Velma try to uncover the reason why the school’s brightest students are disappearing – only to emerge again in a zombie-fied state.”

This sounds very Scooby Doo, so count me in and could lead to the meddling kids coming together at the end of this film.

Due to the success of Riverdale, I always thought Scooby Doo could be more teen/adult and aim for that Riverdale audience by making a scary monster series much like the recent Scooby Apocalypse comic. It looked Gunn had a similar idea for an adult Scooby film.

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“[The] studio ended pushing it into a clean cut children's film” the director revealed in a Facebook message and adding “And, yes, the rumours are true – the first cut was rated R by the MPAA, and the female stars’ cleavage was CGI’d away so as not to offend. But, you know, such as life.”