André “3000” Benjamin (High Life; Jimi: All Is By My Side) is returning to the Scooby-Doo franchise with a recurring role on Netflix‘s upcoming series Scooby-Doo: Origins, which is currently filming in Atlanta. Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull, Casper) also will recur on the live-action series, which has been garnering strong buzz internally ahead of its 2027 global release.
Scooby-Doo: Origins, from Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros Television, is the second live-action take on the beloved Hanna-Barbera cartoon after the 2002 movie. Benjamin is bridging the two; He and Big Boi’s OutKast, along with Killer Mike and Sleepy Brown, co-wrote the song “Land of a Million Drums” for that film, which spawned a 2004 sequel.
Benjamin and Moriarty join previously announced Scooby-Doo: Origins leads Mckenna Grace as Daphne Blake, Tanner Hagen as Shaggy Rogers, Abby Ryder Fortson as Velma Dinkley, Maxwell Jenkins as Fred Jones and of course Scooby-Doo himself, along with Paul Walter Hauser, Rusty Schwimmer, Peter Macon, Jona Xiao, Dani Deetté, Elysée Sanvillé, Alex Isles, Avery Kristen Pohl, Pamela Mitchell, Ross Kimball, Sara Gilbert, Wynn Everett, Sauriyan Sapkota and Bruce McGill.
Scooby-Doo: Origins is described as a modern reimagining of the iconic mystery-solving group of teens and their special dog. During their final summer at camp, old friends Shaggy and Daphne get embroiled in a haunting mystery surrounding a lonely lost Great Dane puppy that may have been a witness to a supernatural murder. Together with the pragmatic and scientific townie Velma and the strange but ever so handsome new kid Freddy, they set out to solve the case that is pulling each of them into a creepy nightmare that threatens to expose all of their secrets.
Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg serve as showrunners, writers and executive producers. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman (via Berlanti Productions and its overall deal with Warner Bros Television), André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner and Adrienne Erickson (via Midnight Radio), and Toby Haynes (EP/Episode 101 Director) also executive produce. Warner Bros. Television is the studio.
André 3000 starred as Jimi Hendrix in the 2013 film Jimi: All Is By My Side, for which he earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination. He also appeared in the films Four Brothers, High Life and White Noise among others. S: Deadline
