Mindy Kaling is Velma

[terry78]

Scooby Doo's Velma Is Getting Her Own Show Starring Mindy Kaling

Animated series coming to hbo max about the origin of Mystery Inc. member Velma Dinkley.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Ill watch but Im not that interested in the Scooby Gang when they are seperated.

 

[scarlet-witch]

I've never been interested in Scooby Doo, but I adore Mindy so good for her.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Ill watch but Im not that interested in the Scooby Gang when they are seperated.

Ditto. Love Scooby, but all together. Although... this interests me more than any other Scooby solo would. I've always had a... thing... for Velma Dinkley

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Wonder why they didn't go with Kate Micucci? She's been the voice of Velma for the TV shows and movies (with the exception of Scoob!) since 2016.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Well, Kate is adorable and funny but Mindy is a bigger name. Though it’s a tad disappointing; I would much rather see a live action Velma series starring Mindy.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Ill watch but Im not that interested in the Scooby Gang when they are seperated.

Yeah, kinda pointless.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Well, Kate is adorable and funny but Mindy is a bigger name.

Honestly, I'd never heard of her until this thread.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Honestly, I'd never heard of her until this thread.

You’ve seriously never heard of Mindy Kaling?

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

You’ve seriously never heard of Mindy Kaling?

Never. Take it she's big in the US?

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Lencho01]

What’s the point if the rest do the Gang don’t even exist (without the van and their dog)? Weird choice… unless Scooby is now dead.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

I'm a HUGE Scooby-Doo fan and Velma might just be my favourite character, but nothing I'm hearing so far is grabbing me.

 

[DarkKnight88]

It is also said that the series will be set in a world where Scooby-Doo & the Mystery Machine do not exist.

And this is a good idea because... ?

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

I wouldn't have minded a live-action Velma solo project with Linda Cardellini

 

[Lencho01]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

I thought Hayley Kiyoko did a really good job.

 

[Teelie]

I am fine with Mindy being Velma, Velma being east asian but no Scooby and no gang is going to be a hard sell. It's still too early to know whether this can work.

 

[Primal Slayer]

So....then why bother adapting Velma? Just create a brand new character. I'm not interested in a Velma where the Scoobies don't exist.

 

[DarkKnight88]

WB regarding the Scooby-Doo franchise

 

[Primal Slayer]

WB regarding the Scooby-Doo franchise

It's the only thing they are consistent at.

 

[Pennywise]

https://www.cbr.com/hbo-max-velma-scooby-doo-east-asian/?utm_source=CBR-FB-P&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_campaign=CBR-FB-P&fbclid=IwAR3iaxJbr9k1KZN_ID00M-_ol29bzDSL1-7v99FLV3NaqsYRrplw_qOl8vg

During a World Screen Events keynote presentation, WarnerMedia's Tom Ascheim explained that part of what drew Kaling to Velma was her excitement to "reimagine what Scooby-Doo would be like if Velma were of East Asian descent and lived in a different world. And so in that version, which is going on HBO Max first, there's no dog and there's no van, but we have our four key characters through a different lens."

 

[DarkKnight88]

Wtf? And they couldn’t do all that while keeping what makes the series special? We really want to see a “realistic” take on this by removing the talking dog/mystery aspect? Now it’s just like everything else?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

They just slap nostalgic branding on what is for all intents and purposes new IP in order to get it made nowadays.

 

[Fincher]

"her excitement to "reimagine what Scooby-Doo would be like if Velma were of East Asian descent and lived in a different world"

I'm really trying to wrap my brain around this one, because...I can understand the excitement to make Velma Asian descent (I think she's supposed to be South Asian, though), and I can understand the excitement to reimagine their world, but I feel like the two would get in the way of each other. If you change fundamental things about Velma's world, then you're not really examining what the original Velma would be like if she were Asian. It's like if with Red Son, instead of it being what if Superman was raised in Soviet Russia, it was what if Superman was raised in Soviet Russia but also had no superpowers. Or also was autistic.