On late Friday The Hollywood Reporter broke a story that Scooby Doo’s big screen animated return has found a handful of its voice cast.
It also revealed the bigger plain Warner Bros Animation division has for their Hanna-Barbera cartoons, but before we talk about that the voice cast has got an impressive current line-up featuring voices and faces well known from TV.
The current big announcement is Gina Rodriguez, from Jane the Virgin fame, will be voicing Velma and this is a great choice and can’t think of any better. While veteran voice actor Frank Welker will voice the greatest of all Great Danes, Scooby Doo.
Because anyone else cast would’ve been awful as Welker has been voicing Scooby since 2002 and this leads to the point where I’m slightly pissed off.
The other name revealed was The Last Man on Earth star Will Forte will voice Shaggy and while I’m sure he’ll do a great job and by the time the first teaser/ trailer comes around, I’ll be praising him.
However, as a fan of the cartoon since I can remember, who saw both live action films in the cinema and still watch it to this day at the age of 26, Matthew Lillard should’ve also been brought in as he’s been the voice of Shaggy since 2009 after original star Casey Kasem retired.
Lillard has done a superb since taking over voicing the character in straight-to-DVD movies, TV series and games and it would’ve been a nice thank you from the studio for his 10 years of service.
It’s was also a shitty way for the 49-year-old actor to learn this news not from his agent or WB but from Twitter which must’ve been a massive kick in the bollocks.
Well this sucks.— matthew lillard (@MatthewLillard) 2 March 2019
What a crappy way to find out.... thanks Hollywood. You never sense to amaze me. https://t.co/QDdlMAqlrZ
I understand that Forte is a bigger name and will help get bums in seats but you could’ve done that with Rodriguez and whoever comes in to voice Fred, Daphne and the villain.
The surprise from these voice casting’s was Tracy Morgan is on board as Captain Caveman, which suggest we’re getting a larger Hanna-Barbera universe so we could possibly get a Captain Caveman, Wacky Races and Hong Kong Phooey movies and its mental to think this could happen.
The story seems to point towards this as THR state “the Mystery Inc. gang join forces with other heroes of the Hanna-Barbera universe to save the world from Dick Dastardly and his evil plans…and this time, we are told, the threat is real” and the film is slated to release for May 2020.
Tony Cervone (who has worked on numerous straight-to-DVD Warner Bros animated films) is on board to direct with Chris Columbus, Charles Roven and Allison Abbate are attached as producers.
As for the voicing of Daphne Blake and Fred Jones and the way it seemingly looks to me that they’re going for well TV stars that have done some movies.
For the leader of Mystery Inc. there’s two that comes to mind Sterling K. Brown and Nathan Fillion or as a wildcard Zachary Levi would be a great Fred.
Finally, with Daphne, someone like an Alison Brie or Kristen Bell from Glow and The Good Place respectfully are two of the biggest leading women in their shows but the biggest is Marvelous Mrs Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan.
The question is would a cast of Brown, Rodriguez, Brosnahan, Morgan and Forte get people to see it or is Scooby Doo a big name property that it would carry the load and kids will take their parents to see it regardless or my hope it becomes a LEGO Movie situation.
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