strange! Brainy Scooby Gang member Velma is finally seen in Warner Bros.’s new animated film “Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!” I am allowed to be gay. Some fans couldn’t be happier after James Gunn’s attempted shooting 20 years ago.
Clips from the upcoming film, which hits digital on Tuesday, show Velma, voiced by Kate Mikuchi, swooning over costume designer Coco Diablo (Myrna Velasco of “DC Super Hero Girls”) — her glasses steaming up. – and receives a huge, goofy grin when Coco touches his shoulder.
A Twitter user named Trin tweeted in all capital letters: “OMG lesbian Velma FINALLY CANON IN THE MOVIES LET’S GOOOOOOO.”
James Gunn, who wrote the live-action “Scooby-Doo” movies in the early 2000s starring Linda Cardellini as Velma, tweeted in 2020 that he tried to make the character “explicitly gay”. of, but the studio won’t go for it. those days. “Velma was clearly gay in my initial script in 2001,” he wrote. “But the studio just kept watering it down and hammering it down, obscure (version shot), then nothing (released version) and finally a lover (sequel).”
He also stated that scenes were shot where Velma “serenades” and kisses Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), but did not make the final cut.
Also in 2020, Tony Servonthe supervising producer of the “Mystery Incorporated” series, shared an Instagram post in which he wrote: “I’ve said this before, but Velma in ‘Mystery Incorporated’ isn’t bi. She’s gay. We always planned that Velma when Shaggy When she was dating, she was acting a little out and about because that relationship was wrong for her and she didn’t mind.
Velma also had a love interest, Cervonne explained: “I don’t think Marcy and Velma had time to act on their feelings during the main timeline, but after the reset, they’re a couple. You can’t like that. But that was our intention.”
“Trick or Treat Scooby Doo!” Available on digital Tuesday, October 4 and on DVD on Tuesday, October 18.