SCOOB! May Lead to a New Cinematic Universe According to Director and Lead Animator

When I watched Scoob! this last weekend, I enjoyed it, but it felt more like a love letter to Hanna-Barbera as a whole that used Scooby-Doo and Shaggy as main characters instead of a Scooby-Doo movie. Well, this led me to theorize that the real point of Scoob! was to start work on a Hanna-Barbera cinematic universe. I may have been right. In a recent interview with Den of Geek, the film’s director, Tony Cervone talked about the potential:

I do feel like this Hanna-Barbera universe is kind of a separate universe and acts as its own thing. So we were able to be like, ‘We’re gonna create an alternate universe where all these things can happen.’ That gave us some liberty, but we tried really hard to maintain the things that we already love about the characters, and then do more because you have to do both. You have to honor the past and honor our collective memory while also having to do something new.

Lead animator Bill Haller added:

There’s so many ways you could go. I kind of want to spend more time with those kids and tell those early stories. I love Captain Caveman, I think that guy could have his own movie. I think Brian, Dynomutt, and Dee Dee could have their own series. I want to see more of the Falcon Force. I want to watch that team grow because there’s definitely, even in the credits at the end, you could see that the team is growing. This franchise that has been around for 50 years and my hope is that it will still be going in 50 years from now and in 100 years someone will be making a new Scooby-Doo movie.

So, it looks like Hanna-Barbera fans may have quite a bit to look forward to in the future. Which property do you look forward to seeing brought back to life? I would love a movie more true to Scooby-Doo personally.