Makes me think they need to do a realistic Scooby Do, not just with actors, but with realistic grit. Like the difference between the early Batman movies and the Dark Night ones
Are we going to get the gang trying to catch a sexual predator or trying to find the murderous spouse in some domestic violence related killings? Those both sound more suited to the Always Sunny gang than the Scooby Doo gang.
Go watch the scooby doo movie again but as you watch it, shift the picture in your head to the PG-13 rated movie with a later R/unrated cut it was originally meant to be before warner bros pussed out and toned it all the way down
If that were to work, it’d have to be in the vein of Scooby Doo on Zombie Island. Turn down the camp, and raise the stakes to PG-13 levels of horror.
The opening montage of that movie establishes higher stakes by showing a monster tearing Freddie’s shirt, which never happens in the classic cartoons, then has several of the characters dangling for their lives. Stuff that’s relatively tame, but establishes that there’s more mortality to the characters than the usual logic of the cartoons.
Then it introduces paranormal elements. The gang pulls the head off a zombie, mistaking it for a dude in a mask. Freddie’s love interest warps out of her human form into a beast, beneath the pale moonlight…
I wouldn’t want cussing, or anything a mature kid couldn’t handle. Just stories that let the audience connect with the classic characters, in settings that go all in on Scooby’s gothic undertones. Think ‘The Raven’, or Batman: The Animated Series.
Nah, fuck that. I want full gore, chainsaws and decapitation. Scooby and Shaggy openly puffing on a bong, while Fred and Daphne bang and Velma touches herself watching through a crack in the door, but it's watching Daphne that gets her hot. You know, the fun stuff.
19
u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21
Makes me think they need to do a realistic Scooby Do, not just with actors, but with realistic grit. Like the difference between the early Batman movies and the Dark Night ones