Matthew Lillard: "Scooby's Done"
Zoinks! Is the Scooby-Doo franchise done for? Actor Matthew Lillard — who plays grungy hippie Shaggy — thinks this particular dog has had its day. Although the sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, didn't play dead at the box office (domestic gross was more than $80 million) it wasn't a big hit by today's standards. Looks like it's time to let sleeping cartoon dogs lie, and give Sarah Michelle Gellar's Daphne poses a rest.
"I think it is done," the 34-year-old says. "At some point, that franchise will come back, but I don't think it will have any of us in it. It will probably be four or five years from now — that's my prediction. I actually think that the second movie was much better than the first movie; I think that we had a bad release date. "
Does that mean we'll never see Lillard scarf down Scooby Snacks again, even if Warner Bros. opts for a third Scooby movie? "Contractually, I would have to do
Fri, Aug 13, 2004