'Scooby-Doo: Origins' reveals its mystery-solving pup, and he's a very good boy

It’s not often that I remark connected a casting announcement, overmuch little 1 astir “Scooby-Doo,” but the 2nd I opened an email from Netflix, my jaw dropped.

A cocoa brownish Great Dane puppy with bluish eyes and a teal collar sitting connected a tile level gazed astatine maine from my machine surface — I squealed. I mean, look astatine him. His floppy ears, grumpy small look and paws you conscionable privation to shingle hands with. He’s perfect.

“Scooby-Doo: Origins” is the streamer’s upcoming live-action series, slated for merchandise successful 2027, featuring this mystery-solving pup. It marks the archetypal clip a existent canine has played Scooby-Doo. For galore viewers, their archetypal vulnerability to Scooby and his pack was via the ‘70s Hanna-Barbera animated version, which aired connected Cartoon Network successful reruns successful the ‘90s and aboriginal aughts, oregon the reboots connected ABC and the WB, present the CW, much recently. Several live-action theatrical and TV films person been made implicit the years, but they’ve ever featured a computer-generated dog. Yes, that means it took astir six decades to person a real-life Scooby.

The antecedently announced formed includes cardinal players successful the Scooby gang: Mckenna Grace arsenic Daphne Blake, Tanner Hagen arsenic Shaggy Rogers, Abby Ryder Fortson arsenic Velma Dinkley and Maxwell Jenkins arsenic Fred Jones. Paul Walter Hauser is besides slated to look arsenic a bid regular successful an unnamed role. Showrunners Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg helm the series.

According to the show’s logline, it’s a “modern reimagining of the iconic mystery-solving radical of teens and their precise peculiar dog” that takes spot astatine summertime camp. Said canine whitethorn person been witnesser to a supernatural murder, starring the radical of teens to acceptable retired to lick the case. It’s an root communicative for Scooby and his gang.

While I wouldn’t see myself a “Scooby-Doo” superfan, I americium a instrumentality of precise cute dogs. I’ll person my Scooby snacks acceptable successful lawsuit we ever transverse paths.