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Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird) has joined Netflix‘s live-action Scooby-Doo bid arsenic a bid regular, Deadline has learned.
No connection yet connected nan domiciled he’ll beryllium playing. Hauser joins pursuing nan casting of nan show’s halfway four: Mckenna Grace arsenic Daphne Blake, Tanner Hagen arsenic Shaggy Rogers, Abby Ryder Fortson arsenic Velma Dinkley, and Maxwell Jenkins arsenic Fred Jones.
Hailing from showrunner-writer-EPs Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg, nan untitled bid is simply a modern reimagining of nan classical Warner Bros. animation presenting an root communicative for nan Mystery Inc. gang, including Great Dane Scooby-Doo, that looks astatine nan lawsuit that sewage them solving mysteries.
During their last summertime astatine camp, aged friends Shaggy and Daphne get embroiled successful a haunting enigma surrounding a lonely mislaid Great Dane puppy that whitethorn person been a witnesser to a supernatural murder. Together pinch nan pragmatic and technological townie, Velma, and nan strange, but ever truthful handsome caller kid, Freddy, they group retired to lick nan lawsuit that is pulling each of them into a creepy nightmare that threatens to expose each of their secrets.
Warner Bros. Television is nan workplace down nan project. In summation to Appelbaum and Rosenberg via Midnight Radio, exec producers see Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman via Berlanti Productions, which has an wide woody pinch Warner Bros. Television, arsenic good arsenic André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, and Adrienne Erickson via Midnight Radio, and Toby Haynes, who is directing nan first episode.
Originating pinch CBS and Hanna-Barbera’s classical 1969 animated series, created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, nan Scooby-Doo franchise has been going beardown for much than 50 years, spawning 3 theatrical features, astir 40 animated location intermezo movies, and much than a twelve animated bid successful total. Netflix’s Scooby-Doo bid will beryllium nan first successful live-action, though Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini famously starred successful a brace of live-action films successful nan early 2000s.
An Emmy and Golden Globe winner, whose accolades recognized his starring domiciled successful Apple TV’s serial slayer thriller Black Bird, Hauser’s 2025 included roles successful Searchlight’s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Paramount’s The Naked Gun, and Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Next up, he’ll beryllium seen starring other Mark Wahlberg successful Peter Farrelly’s drama Balls Up, releasing connected Prime Video connected April 15. Upcoming, he’ll besides beryllium seen successful Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot for Sony, among different projects. He is repped by WME, Artists First, and Schreck Rose Dapello.
