According to Nuke the Fridge, Netflix has unveiled the live-action lineup for Scooby-Doo: Origins, its upcoming origin story for Mystery Inc. — with one conspicuous absence front and center: Scooby-Doo himself has yet to be officially confirmed or detailed alongside the human cast.
Why This Casting Moment Is a Big Deal
Scooby-Doo is one of those properties that every generation feels a personal ownership over, which makes any live-action reimagining an instant lightning rod. The 2002 and 2004 theatrical films starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar set a particular benchmark — beloved by some, cringed at by others — and Netflix positioning this as an origins story means the creative team is deliberately hitting the reset button. That framing opens up a ton of interesting questions: How young are we talking? How faithful to the classic character designs will the casting be? And perhaps most urgently for fans — if the gang is assembled but Scooby's status is murky, what version of the Great Dane are we actually getting?
For fancasters, this is the kind of announcement that sends everyone scrambling to either validate their dream picks or completely overhaul them. Each member of Mystery Inc. — Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy — carries decades of expectation, and Netflix is betting it can find a fresh angle on all of them simultaneously.
What myCast Fans Have Been Saying
The myCast community has been thinking about this one for a while, with multiple fan-cast stories already staking out territory for the franchise. Across three separate Scooby-Doo fan casts on the platform, some genuinely compelling patterns emerge.
For Fred Jones, Dacre Montgomery — best known as Billy Hargrove in Stranger Things — has earned fan support, which makes a lot of intuitive sense. Montgomery has the jaw, the charisma, and the ability to play earnest without tipping into parody. Over in a separate story, Danny Griffin has been floated for Fred Jr., suggesting fans are split between a more classically handsome take and someone with a slightly softer, more contemporary energy.
The Daphne conversation is equally interesting. has a vote in one story, while — who played a red-haired witch in Fate: The Winx Saga — shows up as a pick in another story. Both choices lean into the auburn-haired, girl-next-door-with-an-edge energy that modern Daphne deserves. On the Velma front, fans have gone in two compelling directions: in one story and in another, with Steinfeld's name appearing in the third fan cast specifically for the role of "Vera Dinkley" — a detail that hints some fans are already anticipating a name tweak in the Netflix version. For Shaggy, has been the fan pick, which is a genuinely intriguing left-field choice — Jupe is a serious dramatic actor, and leaning into a more grounded, anxious Shaggy could be exactly what separates Origins from its predecessors.