Made For TV Scooby Doo Prequel In The Works

Scooby-Doo-02It looks like the Scooby Doo films will continue onward… in made for TV movie land. We get wind of a Scooby Doo prequel today thanks to our friends at the moviehole:

Brian Levant (“The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas”, “Are We There Yet?”) has signed to direct a new “Scooby Doo” film – a telemovie prequel to the two “Scooby Doo” films of previous years. Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr will be sitting this one out. A nation-wide casting call is now underway to find the new Fred, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy.

In this new pic, Daphne’s a mystery writer inspired by Murder She Wrote; Fred’s a football player with a penchant for jigsaw puzzles who decides to try out for the school paper, his idol is footballer turned supreme court justice Bryan ‘Whizzer’ White; Shaggy is as daft as ever and not doing so well at school; and Velma (who I hear might be Asian in the new film) is a teen U.S ambassador for World Hunger.

I am uncertain why they would make a made for TV prequel to the films if they don’t have the entire cast together. This film just seems like a waste of time. It reminds me of when I saw the Revenge Of The Nerds 4 on TV years ago; I felt embarrassed for those involved, and saddened that they were milking a classic with such a shitty sequel.

I like tele-films less than I like direct to DVD films, because they have to be clean enough for network TV. In this situation the content limitations will not be a factor (Scoby Doo is a pretty clean show), but I just have no interest to watch it. The sequel/prequel situation is out of control.

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