An image of Scooby-Doo and the Thriller Inc. Gang. Related Press
HBO’s upcoming “Scooby Doo” Halloween film may have one noticeable change because the franchise's launch.
On Tuesday, the Twitter account DiscussingFilm posted a clip from “Trick or Deal with Scooby Doo!” that indicated that Velma might be a lesbian. The video reveals the character with large glasses clearly blushing when she encounters CoCo Diablo, a brand new feminine character.
She says “Jinkies” whereas there may be romantic music enjoying within the background. The caption reads: “Velma is lastly confirmed to be a part of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood within the newest Scooby-Doo movie ‘TRICK OR TREAT.’”
Director Audie Harrison instructed NPR in an e-mail that they didn’t assume they had been “doing one thing so groundbreaking till proper now.”
“Whereas writing and directing this, I simply got down to have enjoyable with the comedy of an ungainly teenage crush,” he stated, noting that the larger deal was this character falling in love with the villain of the film.
Director James Gunn has additionally admitted that previously, he made the super-genius character “explicitly homosexual” for the live-action “Scooby-Doo” film launched in 2002.
“However the studio simply stored watering it down & watering it down, changing into ambiguous (the model shot), then nothing (the launched model) & lastly having a boyfriend (the sequel),” he stated, per CNN.
This time round, plainly the studio has no qualms.
Harrison stated within the interview that he felt supported because the begin and there weren’t any considerations about how this determination could be perceived.
In 2020, Tony Cervone, who was a supervising producer on the “Scooby Doo” sequence “Thriller Included,” posted a picture to Instagram of Velma.
“I clearly don’t characterize each model of Velma Dinkley, however I'm one of many key those that represents this one,” the caption learn. “We made our intentions as clear as we may ten years in the past. Most of our followers bought it. To people who didn’t, I recommend you look nearer.”