McKenna Grace’s gonna need a second Infinity Gauntlet to hold all her major franchise stones in, folks! At the grand old age of *checks notes* just 19, the Texan star has already racked up appearances in the MCU (Captain Marvel), The Conjuring universe (Annabelle Comes Home), Ghostbusters (Afterlife and Frozen Empire), the DC animated universe (Batman: Caped Crusader), and in Five Nights At Freddy’s 2, with The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping and Scream 7 right around the corner. And now, having already voiced a young Daphne in animated movie Scoob!, Grace is joining Netflix’s live-action Scooby-Doo series as — you guessed it! — a young Daphne. Zoinks!
Per Variety‘s reporting, Grace has signed on to play Daphne Blake in the upcoming Netflix show, an origin series for the Mystery Inc. gang created by Josh Appelbaum (From) and Scott Rosenberg (Jumanji: The Next Level) that sounds just a little Wednesday-esque. The official synopsis for the eight-episode series reads: “During their final summer at camp, old friends Shaggy and Daphne 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.”
We don’t know who’ll be playing Shaggy, Velma, or Fred, or indeed who’ll be lending their vocal talents to the titular role of everybody’s favourite snack-obsessed Great Dane just yet. What we do know however is that it’s been a long, long 22 years since Scoob and the gang’s last live-action outing, which came in the form of the heinously underappreciated, James Gunn penned noughties classic Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. And even though McKenna Grace has her work cut out for her stepping into Sarah Michelle Gellar’s mauve shoes and lime-green scarf as style icon Daphne, we’d be lying if we said this canny first bit of casting hasn’t got our curiosity piqued for what Appelbaum and Rosenberg have in store. To the Mystery Machine!
