Netflix may soon get a live-action series for the animation giant, Scooby-Doo, Variety has learnt from sources.

 

There are speculations that the one-hour drama project is getting close to a script-to-series commitment at the streamer. Apart from the fact that it would be based on the Hanna-Barbera animation, not much is known about the plot.

 

The deal was made just one week after Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television’s most recent series ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ debuted on Netflix. Within a day, the comic book adaptation made it onto the streamer’s daily Top 10 U.S. series list, and it remained in the Top 3 throughout the weekend.

 

In addition to being writers, Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg will executive produce under the Midnight Radio banner with André Nemec and Jeff Pinkner.

 

Executive producing through Berlanti Productions will be Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Leigh London Redman (the firm is currently under an overall deal at Warner Bros. Television). Adrienne Erickson and Jonathan Gabay of Berlanti Productions will co-executive produce.

 

If the proposal moves through, it wouldn’t be the first Scooby-Doo live-action film to be adapted for the big screen. Most popularly, Neil Fanning voiced Scooby in the 2002 film “Scooby-Doo,” which also starred Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, and Linda Cardellini.

 

The movie made over $250 million at the box office globally. The 2004 film “Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed,” a sequel starring the same cast, brought in over $180 million. Additionally, in 2009 and 2010, there were the live-action television movies “Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins” and its follow-up.