Netflix Drops First Teaser for Live-Action Scooby-Doo: Origins, Coming in 2027

Netflix has officially unveiled the first teaser for Scooby-Doo: Origins, and the big news is that Scooby is finally real. As in, an actual dog.

For more than 50 years, Scooby-Doo has been a pop-culture powerhouse, spawning three theatrical films, more than a dozen animated series, and nearly 40 animated home entertainment movies. None of them ever did this. Scooby-Doo: Origins marks the first time the franchise’s iconic Great Dane will be played by a real dog — not CGI, not a cartoon. An actual, floppy-eared, teal-collar-wearing good boy.

Scooby-Doo: Origins

The 20-second teaser follows Scooby from his perspective as he sniffs around the woods until he spots Shaggy Rogers, played by Tanner Hagen, wandering nearby. Shaggy picks Scooby up and cradles him — your first proper look at the live-action pup in his iconic teal collar. No dialogue. No exposition. Just a puppy and a kid in jean shorts meeting for the first time. It works.

The rest of Mystery Inc. is already locked in: Maxwell Jenkins (Lost in Space) as Fred Jones, Abby Ryder Fortson (Ant-Man) as Velma Dinkley, and Mckenna Grace (Ghostbusters: Afterlife) as Daphne Blake. Paul Walter Hauser is also set to appear in the series in an undisclosed role.

The official synopsis places the gang during their final summer at camp, where Shaggy and Daphne get pulled into a haunting mystery surrounding a lost Great Dane puppy who may have witnessed a supernatural murder. As the investigation deepens, Velma and Fred get drawn in.

Production began on April 24, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia and is expected to wrap in early September. The series is a collaboration between Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Productions, with Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg serving as showrunners,according to Variety.

For UK fans, Scooby-Doo: Origins will stream on Netflix globally in 2027 — available on the Standard plan from £4.99/month. No exact release window has been confirmed yet, though Netflix says the premiere will be global.

Worth noting: the 2002 live-action film did this too — gave a whole new generation of kids their Mystery Inc. moment. That version’s Scooby was pure CGI and somehow still charming enough to make Matthew Lillard as Shaggy feel inevitable. This one’s going younger, scrappier, and apparently committed to putting a real Great Dane puppy on screen. That’s a choice. A bold one. We’re in.

We’ll keep you posted on updates about Scooby-Doo: Origins as the project develops.

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