Mindy Kaling reveals Scooby-Doo Spinoff Velma’s first look aimed at adult audiences

Mindy Kaling revealed the first look at her new adult animated re-imagining Scooby-Doo, film. first look at film It came with Warner Bros. skins. TV is coming up this week, and as you can see below, Kaling is tackling a whole different kind of Scooby-Doo lore! The photograph shows that Velma discovers the body of a woman with a severed skull and brain removed, on the floor of the girls’ locker room where several female characters (including Daphne?) are undressed.

Here’s your first look at Mindy Kaling filmComing to HBO Max:

Some of the biggest buzz around Velma was the fact that Kaling makes the titular name Woman of Color in this version. The writer/actress/producer/comedian was unfazed in her defense of this decision: “I hope you’ve noticed that my film is from South Asia. If people are afraid of it, I don’t care.” She also added that if Scooby-Doo had a talking dog that could solve crimes, her movie “could be brown”.

When Kaling appeared Late Night with Seth Meyers Last year, she addressed the backlash on social media toward her new vision for a film, head on:

“When it was announced that I was going to be the voice of Velma, people were very supportive and happy on Twitter,” Kaling told Myers. “So I was relieved that these are huge fans – anime and comic book fans. Especially [for] Viewing a legacy like this… people weren’t happy. There was a lot of “So, not a movie?” This type of tweet. “Isn’t Velma the classic I always think of?”

First of all, I didn’t know it elicited such strong reactions either way. She added, ‘I couldn’t understand how people couldn’t imagine a really smart girl with terrible eyesight who loves to solve puzzles who couldn’t be an Indian. There are Indian nerds. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to people, but people say, “No, no, no.” But it made me think, ‘Well, we have to be really careful with this character,’ which we will be because we love her.”

For the record, while Linda Cardellini (hookPlay a famous live action movie Scooby Doo Movies, Actress Hailey Kyoko (who is a Japanese part) played a movie in Scooby Doo TV & Movies The mystery begins (2009) and Curse of the beast lake (2010). So technically, having an Asian movie in a file Scooby Doo The live-action project has already been done, and it doesn’t seem to hurt anyone.

film They will be streamed on HBO Max.

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