SUMMERWEEN SEASON is FINALLY HERE 🔪🍉
🍉Write 666 in your sunscreen!
🍉Freeze a bat inside a popsicle!
🍉Replace your vital organs with candy!
🍉Shove a goblin down a slip n slide!
I still can’t believe I accidentally invented a holiday… how are you guys celebrating?
Matthew Lillard played Shaggy in two live-action Scooby-Doo movies. Then he did something almost no actor gets to do. He became the cartoon. Since 2010 he has voiced Shaggy in nearly every animated Scooby-Doo, after the original voice retired.
Those two live-action films, from 2002 and 2004, made about $456 million worldwide, even though critics hated them. Both just hit Netflix this month, so the van is showing up in a lot of feeds again.
The voice work has been the steady part. He's played Shaggy in dozens of movies and shows for 16 years straight. The rest got rocky. He was cut from the 2020 movie Scoob! and has said he found out he was replaced from an online report, not a phone call. He wasn't in the 2023 show Velma either. And he's not in the new live-action Scooby-Doo series Netflix is filming right now, though he says he offered to help coach whoever plays Shaggy next.
All of this is happening during the best run of his career in years. The actor who thought his big-movie days were over now plays the villain in Five Nights at Freddy's, a horror film that made $297 million on a $20 million budget. He came back as his old Scream character. He's in Mike Flanagan's Carrie and in James Gunn's next Superman movie. Gunn is the same writer who wrote those original Scooby-Doo films in 2002.
When Lillard first voiced Shaggy in 2010, the original Shaggy was right there in the same show. Radio legend Casey Kasem, who had voiced the character on and off since 1969, played Shaggy's dad that year. One actor passing the role to the next, in character, on screen. Lillard has carried it ever since.
‘Lilo & Stitch’ creators Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois have shared a piece of artwork honoring the late Daveigh Chase.
Chase voiced Lilo in the ‘Lilo & Stitch’ film.
I think Until Dawn 2 looks neat, but as a guy who loves the first game (probably too much) I don’t love the idea of Josh’s therapist being a recurring character - and a supernatural one at that.