"It was 100 percent a studio decision," Gosnell said of the kis being scrapped from the final version. Another scene that hit the cutting room floor was a kiss between Daphne and Velma as the Scooby gang exchanged souls. We were like, 'No, it's not meant to go there!' We basically had to go through the movie and take out every reference and make it protoplasm."Ħ. "But we had a screening and we had some pretty hard pushback from religious people. "Originally, none of us thought about this while we were shooting, but the things that were pulled out of the people to go into the demon, we called those souls because it was a soul-sucker machine," Gosnell explained. One major change was taking out all mentions of the word "soul" after they received some "pretty hard pushback from religious people" during the test screening, Gosnell said. We just had to do our best to protect the movie and make the best movie we could under newer guidelines."ĥ. "didn't play well at all," the director said "that started the first scramble to take out all of the 'is Velma gay?' references. After the movie was screened for a test audience of "pretty conservative" parents in Scottsdale, AZ. "They wanted to sell the movie to what the current demographic of Scooby-Doo was and that was young kids and their parents," Gosnell recalled. Wanting to make the movie for fellow fans of the original cartoon, their initial version had, Gosnell revealed, "some winks to Velma's sexual orientation and there were more pot jokes" before the studio ultimately decided it wanted to market the movie to a different audience. It had all those winks and acknowledgments and self-referential bits."Ĥ. "The best way to say it is what Shrek was to fairy tales and what Austin Powers was to James Bond," Gosnell described, "James' script of Scooby-Doo was to the Scooby. While they didn't set out to make an R-rated movie, Gosnell and Gunn, who were both fans of the Hanna-Barbera animated series when they were younger, were aiming to make a PG-13 parody of Scooby-Doo. Soon after, Gunn commented on the idea again in a Tweet, claiming he doesn’t have time for the movie right now.3. I think that people listen, especially these days, to social media, they listen to fans and that fandom is really strong,” added Lillard, who agreed an R-rated reboot “would be a super fun thing to see.” Matthew Lillard, who played Shaggy in the original series, was asked by TooFab about the possibility of a rated R ‘Scooby-Doo’ movie. some previous cast members are open to the idea of an adult ‘Scooby-Doo’ movie in the future. Gunn said the movie would have received an R rating had it stuck to its original script. the original script for the movies were originally for a much older adult audience. ![]() ![]() The films were directed by Raja Gosnell and written by James Gunn, who went on to work on major Marvel projects such as the ‘Gaurdians of the Galaxy’ franchise ad ‘Suicide Squad.’Īccording to Gunn and Prinze Jr. The two films were a major success at the box office and were well-perceived by fans of the series of all ages. The actor starred alongside wife Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, and Linda Cardellini in the two ‘Scooby-Doo’ films in the early 2000s. It wasn’t the movie I wanted to make, but I appreciate that and it made me change my outlook on it.” An R-rated script He continued, “We did good, there’s legit millions of people that love this movie. “I didn’t fully appreciate Scooby until it was seen and children came up to me, like, ‘Oh my gosh,’” he explained. ![]() also explained that he didn’t fully appreciate the movies until he saw the reaction of children at the time. “I’ve been on two jobs where I had regret doing it and Scooby was one of them,” he said in an interview with TooFab. According to the actor, he would turn down another sequel due to bad experiences on set. ![]() played Fred Jones, in the two previous Scooby-Doo live-action films in 20. The actor recently revealed that he is not interested in another ‘Scooby-Doo’ movie and isn’t too fond of his previous role. will not be reuniting with the Mystery Inc squad anytime soon.
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