McKenna Grace Playing Daphne in New ‘Scooby-Doo’ Series

(Left) McKenna Grace in Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group’s ‘Scream 7.’ (Right) Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini, and Matthew Lillard in ‘Scooby-Doo’. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures.

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McKenna Grace will play a young Daphne in a new ‘Scooby-Doo’ series.
Netflix is producing the live-action show.
It’ll be a prequel re-imagining of the cartoon series.

Nervy, snack-loving hound Scooby-Doo and the human characters with whom he often solves mysteries has been brought to the screen many times, in animated and live-action form.

Netflix is the latest company to try its hand at a Scooby show, greenlighting a live-action take on the animated adventures back in March 2025.

And the first cast member has been hired for the show, as McKenna Grace will play a young take on Daphne Blake.

She’s no stranger to the role, having voiced Daphne in 2020 animated movie ‘Scoob!’ and also working on follow-up ‘Scoob!: Holiday Haunt’ before Warner Bros. unceremoniously scrapped the finished film.

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What’s the story of the new ‘Scooby-Doo’ show?

1969’s ‘Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!’ Photo: Hanna-Barbera.

Written by Josh Appelbaum & Scott Rosenberg and based on characters created by Hanna-Barbera, the to-be titled Scooby series crafts an origin story of how the Mystery Inc. group got together and first teamed up to crack the haunting case that started it all.

During their final summer at camp, old friends Shaggy and Daphne (Grace) get embroiled in a haunting mystery surrounding a lonely lost Great Dane puppy that may have been a witness to a supernatural murder.

Together with the pragmatic and scientific townie, Velma, and the strange, but ever so handsome new kid, Freddy, they set out to solve the case that is pulling each of them into a creepy nightmare that threatens to expose all of their secrets.

Prolific TV producer Greg Berlanti is also involved via his Berlanti Productions company. Netflix has handed out an eight-episode initial order and the show should kick off shooting soon. Zoinks!

Where else can we see McKenna Grace?

(L to R) Celeste O’Connor and McKenna Grace star in Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group’s ‘Scream 7.’

Grace is back on movie screens now in ‘Scream 7.’ She’s also part of the cast for the latest ‘Hunger Games’ prequel, ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping,’ where she plays Maysilee Donner.

That movie will be in cinemas on November 20.

(L to R) Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy and McKenna Grace as Maysilee Donner in ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’. Photo Credit: Murray Close.