Paul Walter Hauser Joins Netflix’s Live-Action Scooby-Doo Series
Paul Walter Hauser has been confirmed as a series regular on Netflix’s live-action Scooby-Doo project, Filmogaz.com has learned. No role details are available yet.
New additions and core cast
The series already cast the four young leads. Mckenna Grace plays Daphne Blake. Tanner Hagen is Shaggy Rogers. Abby Ryder Fortson portrays Velma Dinkley. Maxwell Jenkins will take the role of Fred Jones.
Hauser joins this ensemble as a regular. The production has not announced his character.
Series concept and premise
The show is a modern reimagining of the classic Warner Bros. cartoon. It presents an origin story for Mystery Inc. and their Great Dane, Scooby-Doo.
The plot follows the gang during their final summer at camp. Shaggy and Daphne become embroiled in a haunting mystery. A lonely lost Great Dane puppy may have witnessed a supernatural murder. Velma, the pragmatic scientific townie, and Freddy, the strange but handsome new kid, join them. The case pulls the teens into a nightmare that threatens to expose their secrets.
Creative team and production
Showrunners, writers and executive producers are Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg. Warner Bros. Television is producing the series.
Additional executive producers include Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Leigh London Redman from Berlanti Productions. André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner and Adrienne Erickson serve as executive producers through Midnight Radio. Toby Haynes directs the first episode.
Business context
Berlanti Productions has an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television. The series is untitled and will be Netflix’s first live-action Scooby-Doo adaptation.
Franchise background
The Scooby-Doo franchise began as a 1969 animated series from CBS and Hanna-Barbera. Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original show.
The property has run for more than 50 years. It has spawned three theatrical films, nearly 40 animated home-entertainment movies, and over a dozen animated series. Earlier live-action feature films starred Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, and Linda Cardellini.
Hauser’s recent and upcoming work
Hauser won Emmy and Golden Globe awards for his lead role in Apple TV+’s Black Bird. His 2025 credits include Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere for Searchlight.
He also appears in Paramount’s The Naked Gun and Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps. He stars opposite Mark Wahlberg in Peter Farrelly’s comedy Balls Up. That film arrives on Prime Video on April 15.
Upcoming projects include Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot for Sony. He is represented by WME, Artists First, and Schreck Rose Dapello.
- Source: Filmogaz.com report.
- Project studio: Warner Bros. Television.
- Director of episode one: Toby Haynes.
