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'Matthew made him real more than anything else we could have done. 'What you're really watching is Matthew just being a fantastically aware actor, just always sensing Scooby is there,' Gosnell said. To film the scenes between the actors and the CGI-rendered Scooby, production lined up the shots with a giant stuffed animal or use a giant green stuffed bag if it was a scene in which Lillard was holding the dog. Naturally a redhead, Fisher wore a blonde wig because 'we didn't want her to be in the Daphne zone,' Gosnell explained.ġ5. The character originally had a different name, but was changed to Mary Jane because Gunn and Gosnell wanted to get in another pot reference.ġ4. The casting department was 'having a little trouble' finding an actress to play Mary Jane, Shaggy's love interest, before they found a then-unknown Isla Fisher, said Gosnell : 'She came in and she read with Matthew and we all fell in love with her in the first 10 seconds.'ġ3. 'He said, 'I'm not doing the dye thing again, guys! So let's just figure out something else.''ġ2. I think we lightened his eyebrows too, and that was just a process.'įor the 2004 sequel, Prinze 'just shaved his head and we wigged him,' Gosnell admitted. 'But Fred has to be blonde and he has to wear the ascot and we wanted to honor the original profiles of the characters, so he dyed his hair, and it was hard on him. Of course to play Fred, Prinze had to dramatically change his hair. 'He's tall, dark and handsome, right?' Gosnell said.

'It wasn't a negative, it was a huge positive.'ġ1. 'The idea of them doing something together, playing a couple they grew up watching was part of the appeal for them,' the director explained. Prinze and Gellar, who are still married and have two children, had no hesitations about starring in the movie together, Gosnell said. While Fred and Daphne were never officially a romantic pair in the original series, Gosnell said, 'Audiences always put those two together as a couple, so to have a real life couple already in place, it just felt like the audiences are really going to like this.'ġ0. 'He just had such an affinity for it and with Sarah Michelle was interested in Daphne, it was a slam dunk.' wanted to play Fred and we met him and he was like, 'Oh man, my whole life I've been called Fred!'' Gosnell recalled. 'When the call came in that Freddie Prinze Jr. The creative team didn't set out to cast a real-life couple as Fred and Daphne and it was Prinze and Gellar who brought the idea to the filmmakers. 'My only regret in the whole process is that we never got a chance to show the movie we made to the audience it was intended for.'ĩ. 'It was 100 percent a studio decision,' Gosnell said of the kis being scrapped from the final version. Another scene that hit the cutting room floor was a kiss between Daphne and Velma as the Scooby gang exchanged souls. We were like, 'No, it's not meant to go there!' We basically had to go through the movie and take out every reference and make it protoplasm.'Ħ. 'But we had a screening and we had some pretty hard pushback from religious people. 'Originally, none of us thought about this while we were shooting, but the things that were pulled out of the people to go into the demon, we called those souls because it was a soul-sucker machine,' Gosnell explained. One major change was taking out all mentions of the word 'soul' after they received some 'pretty hard pushback from religious people' during the test screening, Gosnell said. We just had to do our best to protect the movie and make the best movie we could under newer guidelines.'ĥ. 'didn't play well at all,' the director said 'that started the first scramble to take out all of the 'is Velma gay?' references. After the movie was screened for a test audience of 'pretty conservative' parents in Scottsdale, AZ. 'They wanted to sell the movie to what the current demographic of Scooby-Doo was and that was young kids and their parents,' Gosnell recalled. Wanting to make the movie for fellow fans of the original cartoon, their initial version had, Gosnell revealed, 'some winks to Velma's sexual orientation and there were more pot jokes' before the studio ultimately decided it wanted to market the movie to a different audience.

It had all those winks and acknowledgments and self-referential bits.'Ĥ. 'The best way to say it is what Shrek was to fairy tales and what Austin Powers was to James Bond,' Gosnell described, 'James' script of Scooby-Doo was to the Scooby.

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While they didn't set out to make an R-rated movie, Gosnell and Gunn, who were both fans of the Hanna-Barbera animated series when they were younger, were aiming to make a PG-13 parody of Scooby-Doo.

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