Will Warner Bros. Reboot Scooby-Doo?

Warner Bros. is planning to reboot one of its classic franchises, with news emerging online that Scooby-Doo is set to get another go-around at the cinema.

Warner is set to dust off the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon for a second crack at a big-screen adaptation, after the live-action version released back in 2002.

That film might have received a bit of a critical kicking, but still managed to bring in $275 million at the global box office, a sizeable enough return to guarantee a sequel was made two years later.

Details on the new film are extremely scarce, so we’ve no idea whether this one will be animated, live-action or a mixture of the two, although intuition would have us leaning towards the latter.

They don’t have a lot of details about the direction the studio is looking to take, but screenwriter Randall Green has been called upon to rework the popular cartoon characters into a new live-action adventure.

It’s unlikely they’ll be bringing back any of the cast from the previous two movies, which starred Freddie Prinze Jr, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Linda Cardellini and Isla Fisher, nor director Raja Gosnell, who has since moved onto “The Smurfs” and its sequel.

“Scooby-Doo” was originally a Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon series that began in the late 60s, and it has since seen the launch of 13 different television shows.

In addition to the big budget, theatrically released “Scooby-Doo” from 2002, which got a sequel in 2004 called “Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed,” there have also been two live action television movies made: “Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins” and “Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster.”

Whether it ends up being animated or live-action, when thinking about how the franchise has performed at the box office in the past it’s hard to really see what Warner Bros. is thinking with this reboot.

The studio had originally planned to make a “Scooby-Doo 3” after “Monsters Unleashed,” but those plans were scrapped after the sequel managed to make a little more than half of what its predecessor made globally.

Yes, a decade has now passed, but have the feelings about another Scooby Doo movie changed?

At this time there is no time table available for this project, but it sounds like it is very much in the earliest of early stages.

If it actually does start moving forward and become a priority at the studio, you can probably expect to hear a few updates about it in the coming months.