Netflix is revving up a new version of the Mystery Machine with a fresh live-action take on Scooby-Doo, and now one of the original gang who tried it out back in 2002 has had a few words to say on the matter. Matthew Lillard played Shaggy in two films, alongside the other perfectly cast members of Mystery Inc. — Freddie Prinze Jr. as Fred, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, and Linda Cardellini as Velma — so it’s fair to say he knows how to handle the permanently petrified dog.
“My general thought is that I’m really happy for them. I think that the show needs to come back,” the Scooby-Doo and Scream star told Entertainment Weekly. “I think that it’s a great way for kids to understand storytelling. It’s the first introduction to ghost stories for a lot of kids, right? It’s about friendship and sticking together as a gang and working together to solve mysteries — and that normally it’s a dangerous white man behind a mask. These are the things that kids have to learn.”
