André 3000 Cast In Netflix’s Live Action Scooby-Doo

As it happens, yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Outkast's beyond-classic sophomore album ATLiens, which still sounds futuristic today. As it happens, yesterday was also the day that Netflix announced André 3000, the more enigmatic half of Outkast, will appear in its forthcoming live-action series Scooby-Doo: Origins. Zoinks!

Look, groceries don't pay for themselves. André 3000's acting career goes all the way back to the 2003 buddy-cop movie Hollywood Homicide, and his filmography includes plenty of paycheck gigs. Or who knows, maybe André really thought he'd be involved in real artistic triumphs when he filmed his Be Cool or Semi-Pro parts or when he taped his voice role for the 2006 Charlotte's Web adaptation. Under his André Benjamin government name, Three Stacks appeared onscreen most recently in a one-two punch of 2022 art films, Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up and Noah Baumbach's White Noise. In recent years, he has been making improvisational flute and piano records. Now, he will presumably play one of the bad guys who gets unmasked at the end of the episode.

In a press release, Netflix proudly announces that Scooby-Doo: Origins is now in production, describing the series as "a modern reimagining of the beloved group of teens and their very special dog, exploring the terrifying first case that brings Mystery Inc. together for good." Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol screenwriter Josh Applebaum and Con Air screenwriter Scott Rosenberg are running the show.

The cast includes Mckenna grace as Daphne, Tyler Hagen as Shaggy, Abby Ryder Fortson as Velma, and Maxwell Jenkins as Fred. Along with André, the supporting cast includes people like Paul Walter Hauser, Cathy Moriarty, and Sara Gilbert. The role of Scooby-Doo will be portrayed by an actual Great Dane — just, like, a regular dog! It's so weird!

André 3000 and Scooby-Doo have history together. In 2002, OutKast released their Killer Mike/Sleepy Brown collab "Land Of A Million Drums" — not, as I previously thought, the classic single "The Whole World" — on the soundtrack of the Scooby-Doo movie that had Sarah Michelle Gellar and Matthew Lillard. Stereogum regrets the error.