Paul Walter Hauser Eyed for Role in Netflix’s Stay-Motion ‘Scooby-Doo’ Series

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The Thriller Machine is revving up, and we’ve bought an exhilarating fresh casting tip to share. Sources present What’s on Netflix that Paul Walter Hauser for the time being has a proposal on the table for an enticing position in Netflix’s upcoming reside-action Scooby-Doo assortment: Scooby’s long-established owner.

While you happen to overlooked the news support in March 2025, Netflix formally handed a script-to-assortment dedication to a unusual one-hour reside-action adaptation of the classic Hanna-Barbera frigid interesting movie. The extremely anticipated challenge involves us from Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with writers Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg (Cowboy Bebop, Fortress) at the helm.

For the explanation that preliminary announcement, things were rather light on the casting entrance as the inventive crew maps out this fresh iteration of Thriller Inc. We first bought observe of casting support in December 2025, with Frank Welker being tapped to disclose Scooby-Doo, and closing month, McKenna Grace changed into as soon as confirmed to be taking half in Daphne Blake.

While we’re looking ahead to a corpulent flurry of bulletins from the trades relating to the final predominant characters, our sources relate Paul Walter Hauser has been equipped the position of “Scooby’s long-established owner.”

For die-difficult Scooby followers, this personality description is a wide mark that Appelbaum and Rosenberg are digging deep into the franchise’s lore—or even rewriting it entirely. Historically, we’ve identified Shaggy Rogers to be Scooby’s lifelong pal, though varied interesting iterations over the decades (from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo to 2020’s Scoob!) indulge in tweaked precisely how the cowardly Colossal Dane and his snacking buddy first crossed paths. Bringing in an “long-established owner” factors to a deeper, maybe extra serialized backstory for our accepted talking dogs before he formally hops into the support of the Thriller Machine.

Cameras are because of the open rolling in Atlanta subsequent month, on April twenty seventh, and fling thru September. Expected to be titled Scooby Doo: Origins, the story follows “how the Thriller Inc. community bought together and first teamed up to crack the haunting case that started all of it. At some level of their closing summer season at Camp Ruby-Spears, outmoded pals Shaggy and Daphne (Grace) get hold of embroiled in a haunting thriller surrounding a lonely misplaced Colossal Dane pet that can were a leer to a supernatural execute. Alongside side the pragmatic and scientific townie, Velma, and the irregular, nonetheless ever so resplendent fresh youngster, Freddy, they save out to clear up the case that is pulling every of them into a creepy nightmare that threatens to uncover all of their secrets.”

If Hauser signs the dotted line, it might maybe maybe be a wide get hold of for the manufacturing. The Emmy-a success actor is having a in point of fact spectacular fling ethical now. Netflix subscribers will, undoubtedly, know him ideal as the loved (and hilarious) Raymond “Stingray” Porter in Cobra Kai. He additionally now not too long prior to now lent his disclose to the sentient embodiment of “the darkish” in Netflix’s hit interesting characteristic Orion and the Darkish.

Outdoors of his work with Netflix, Hauser is decided to star as comedy yarn Chris Farley in Josh Gad’s upcoming SNL biopic, and he now not too long prior to now made his Wonder Cinematic Universe debut as Harvey Elder (aka Mole Man) in The Fabulous Four: First Steps.

As a reminder, this fresh reside-action Scooby-Doo assortment is being executive produced by Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Leigh London Redman for Berlanti Productions, alongside Appelbaum, Rosenberg, André Nemec, and Jeff Pinkner below their Hour of darkness Radio banner.

Are you enthusiastic on the prospect of Paul Walter Hauser joining the Scooby-Doo universe? What enact you remark an “long-established owner” technique for Shaggy and Scooby’s foundation story? Let us know in the feedback down below!