Beyda describes one such omitted gag in which the camera zooms in on the Mystery Machine to reveal a sign that reads " Pot - $5" before panning out to reveal an actual clay pot that Shaggy and Scooby (Neil Fanning) are using to store flowers in. In deference to a long-held fan theory, Gunn & Gosnell's original Scooby-Doo cut contained several drug references that unequivocally point to Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) being a " stoner." While some drug-related gags, such as Shaggy falling in love with a girl called Mary Jane ( The Great Gatsby's Isla Fisher) or Musical Youth's "Pass the Dutchie" playing as the camera pans in on a smoking Mystery Machine made the final cut, others were omitted to keep the film's family-friendly rating. Beyda also admits that, in the R-rated cut, the Scooby-Doo demons successfully infiltrate the Pentagon despite Scrappy-Doo's (Scott Innes) defeat - although this scene was also cut following poor audience reaction. Beyda describes the initial Gosnell R-rated cut as " a little racy" when it was previewed in 2001 in Scottsdale, Arizona, but admits he was surprised by the reaction of the conservative test audience to the film.Īccording to Beyda, parents at the initial Scooby-Doo preview " reacted very badly" to this early movie version, reserving particular ire for the film's premise of " demons from outer space collecting the souls of students." The audience offense taken at the use of the words " demon" and " soul" due to their religious connotations meant Gosnell and company were forced to scramble, with the Scooby-Doo live-action actors re-recording lines in which demons became " creatures" and souls became " protoplasm" in an effort to make the movie's nefarious monsters more universally palatable. Kent Beyda confirms near the beginning of the JayBee & Milly interview that writer James Gunn and director Raja Gosnell were creating a live-action Scooby-Doo to " appeal to all ages," including the parents of the children that watched the animated Hanna-Barbera features themselves and college students alike. As a result, here's all eight major details and deleted scenes from Scooby-Doo's R-rated cut revealed by Beyda, as well as whether or not the near-mythical " Gosnell cut" still exists today. However, 20 years after Scooby-Doo's initial release, a revealing YouTube interview with Scooby-Doo editor Kent Beyda has shed light on the content of the movie's R-rated cut. Presenters JayBee & Milly, in association with smASH's Ashton Hardy, spoke at length with Beyda, who also edited the sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, to get the long-awaited details of the Scooby-Doo scenes deemed too risque for a family-friendly picture. Related: Every Unmade James Gunn Movie (Including Scooby-Doo 3)
On the 15th anniversary of Scooby-Doo's release, writer James Gunn subsequently revealed in a Facebook post that an R-rated cut of Scooby-Doo did exist at one point in time despite also not offering a deep level of detail on the original script. and Sarah Michelle Gellar hinted at Scooby-Doo's much darker and satirical initial tone, while Mathew Lillard described the movie's demons as " really scary.they were softened" in a 2012 Reddit AMA. currently stars in Netflix’s new original holiday movie “Christmas With You,” now streaming.Although Scooby-Doo's R-rated cut was not confirmed as existing until 2017, the core cast's comments surrounding the movie certainly hinted at its existence. “All these people that had grown up loving those movies started reaching out… and then I got what I felt was a more accurate perspective on what that movie meant to people because I was no longer viewing it through the lenses of the studio,” he told Esquire magazine. can finally look back at the “Scooby-Doo” franchise with a bit more fondness. “But the studio just kept watering it down & watering it down, becoming ambiguous (the version shot), then nothing (the released version) & finally having a boyfriend (the sequel).”Īll these years later, Prinze Jr. “In 2001 Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script,” he wrote on Twitter. Gunn also wanted to depict Velma as an openly gay character in the 2002 movie, but the studio got in his way.
The first rating from the MPAA was R, and then a bunch of stuff was changed and that cut ended up being rated PG.” Screenwriter James Gunn revealed as much in a tweet from earlier this year in which he wrote, “The first ‘Scooby-Doo’ was originally intended (by me, the producers & the director, Raja Gosnell) to be PG-13, but we never got a PG-13 rating. said he also grew frustrated with the “Scooby-Doo” franchise because the script that convinced him to star as Fred was not the script that ended up being made.
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