Production has wrapped on Netflix's live-action reimagining of Scooby-Doo, the streamer confirmed on Sunday, with the first season now locked and pointed at a global release sometime in 2027.

The big departure here isn't the plot, it's the dog. For the first time since the gang first piled into the Mystery Machine back in 1969, Scooby-Doo is being played by an actual Great Dane rather than an animated character or a person in a suit. No CGI mutt, no cartoon overlay, just a real dog carrying six decades of franchise weight.

The show is called Scooby-Doo: Origins and it does what the title promises. Shaggy and Daphne, old friends from summer camp, stumble into a supernatural murder mystery tied to a lonely stray Great Dane pup during what's meant to be their last summer together. Velma shows up as the sharp, science-minded local kid, and Freddy arrives as the new guy in town who is, per the official logline, "strange, but ever so handsome." Between the four of them, the case starts pulling up secrets nobody wanted dug up.

McKenna Grace plays Daphne Blake, Tanner Hagen is Shaggy, Abby Ryder Fortson takes on Velma Dinkley and Maxwell Jenkins rounds out the core four as Fred Jones. Paul Walter Hauser plays the dog's owner. The supporting cast is stacked with names like Bruce McGill, Sara Gilbert, Cathy Moriarty, André Benjamin and Peter Macon.

Shooting happened in Atlanta, which has become something of a house address for Netflix's bigger genre swings, Stranger Things and His & Hers both filmed there too.

Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg, the duo behind High Fidelity and Everything Sucks!, run the show as showrunners, writers and executive producers, with Toby Haynes also directing the first episode. Greg Berlanti's Berlanti Productions and André Nemec's Midnight Radio banner are both attached as producing partners, alongside Warner Bros. Television, which owns the underlying Hanna-Barbera characters created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Ran on CBS from 1969 to 1976 before jumping to ABC, where assorted spin-offs and revivals kept the gang solving fake-ghost mysteries all the way to 1986. This is the first time the property gets a fully live-action, teen-drama treatment for streaming, and casting a real dog as Scooby is either the boldest swing in the franchise's history or the easiest way to make sure nobody complains about the CGI.

Netflix hasn't dated the 2027 premiere beyond the year itself. Expect a first trailer once the edit's locked, and expect every entertainment desk on the internet to have opinions about how a real dog holds up next to sixty years of cartoon Scooby.