Greg Berlanti Interviewed About New Scooby-Doo Live Action Series

Back in April, it was announced that a new Scooby-Doo live action series from Berlanti Productions would be coming to Netflix. Greg Berlanti, CEO of Berlanti Productions, was recently interviewed by Deadline about all of the projects Berlanti Productions is currently working on. In this interview, he shared some additional insight into the upcoming Scooby-Doo live-action series. The biggest news to come from the interview is that the series is that is still in early production. Berlanti mentions in the interview that he "just was working on the pitch for it this morning, for the first episode."

He also stated in another video interview with Deadline that the current plan is to start filming in 6-8 months. (Thanks to Jinkies for finding the clip)

Here's the full excerpt from the Deadline interview:

DEADLINE: What’s cooking with your live-action Scooby-Doo series?
BERLANTI: One of my first jobs in this business was as a temp at Hanna-Barbera. I’d sit with Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna while they autographed animation cels. I would go in the morning and I would retrieve with my boss a bunch of these animation cels. I’d go to Bill Hanna’s office first. He was a very stoic guy. His office was very spare. And then came my favorite part of the day, going to see Joe Barbera. He was such a life force. He would sign the cels, but he would stop and regale me with the greatest stories. He was such a raconteur.

DEADLINE: Give us a good one…
BERLANTI: He would tell stories of how Scooby was created and what they were  thinking, and how it was the late ’60s and kids felt under assault by adults, and they felt overwhelmed and they needed to be empowered. When they pitched it to Bill Paley he was like, you need a dog or something. And that was the birth of Scooby-Doo. Joe was such a special storyteller, and I was so, wow. I’d always loved them as a kid. And again, with any of the properties be they Hanna-Barbera or DC or anything at Warners, you feel lucky to be the historian who helps usher them into a new generation. You just go back to the spirit and the DNA of what makes ’em special. With Scooby-Doo, we went out and heard pitches for a year and a half and finally found one that we really felt really captured it. I just was working on the pitch for it this morning, for the first episode. So we’re really pumped.