

A new live-action take on those meddling kids and their dog is one step closer to fruition. Deadline reports that Mckenna Grace has been cast as the red-haired teen gumshoe, Daphne, in the live-action Scooby-Doo series at Netflix.
According to Deadline, the eight-episode series comes for Greg Berlanti (Arrow, Love, Simon) along with Warner Bros. Television and Midnight Radio. The highly-contested project received a script-to-series order by the streamer last spring.
Deadline reports the show will serve as an origin tale of the four human members of the Mystery Inc. team and how their Great Dane became a force against creepy criminals and other things that go bump in the night.
The kiddos will have received their first case during summer camp. Deadline tells Grace’s Daphne and her friend, Shaggy, wander upon a lost puppy who may have witnessed a paranormal crime. Soon the threesome becomes a quad as Velma and new kid, Freddy, join the spirited search for the truth.
According to Deadline, Midnight Radio’s Scott Rosenberg (From, Citadel: Diana) and Josh Applebaum (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Heads of State) wrote the script based on the classic Hanna-Barbera characters. The duo will serve as showrunners as Midnight Radio partners André Nemec (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Cowboy Bebop) and Jeff Pinker (Alias, Knightfall) executive produce. Berlanti, Sarah Schechter (You, All American) and Leigh London Redman (Gotham Knights, Dead Boy Detectives) are EPs as well via Berlanti Productions under its WB Television deal.
Grace was recently seen in the political thriller, Anniversary, and lended her voice to the first season of Batman: Caped Crusader. She will appear in two major film franchises: Scream 7 and Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. She also recently recorded a song for the upcoming Scream sequel, “Twisting the Knife,” with Ice Nine Kills (“A Work of Art”, “The Laugh Track”).
According to previous mxdwn reporting, this isn’t the only new Scooby-Doo project in the works. Last year Warner Bros. Discovery announced an anime version of the series entitled Go-Go Mystery Machine.

