Zoinks, Batman! Matthew Lillard wants to reunite with Scooby–Doo scribe and DC Studios boss James Gunn on a new project.
Following his casting in Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again, the actor expressed interest in joining his “dear friend” in gaining dual citizenship between the MCU and DCU by joining Gunn’s newly revamped Warner Bros. franchise.
“It’s been a long time, I have wanted to be in a superhero world,” Lillard told the crowd at Los Angeles Comic-Con, according to a clip shared by Screen Rant. “I’ve wanted to be in [DCU]—If anyone’s curious, if you run into James Gunn, tell him I’m available.”
Noting that Gunn wrote Scooby-Doo (2002) and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), in which Lillard starred as Mystery Inc. staple Shaggy, he said that the Superman director is “one of my dear friends. I keep waiting for that invitation, I don’t know if it’s lost in the mail.”
In February, Deadline exclusively announced that Lillard joined the cast of Daredevil: Born Again‘s sophomore season, although his character has not yet been revealed.
Lillard noted at LACC that he’s not playing a superhero. “I do not wear any lycra, I know you’re sad,” he joked to fans.
Back in 2023, Gunn confirmed he’s open to casting actors in the DCU that he’s previously worked with in the MCU and on other projects.
“We have hundreds of roles to cast. As I’ve always done, some will be brand new faces, some will be actors I’ve worked with before, and some will be actors you know who I’ve never worked with,” wrote Gunn on X. “What matters most is the actor fits the role and they’re easy to work with.”
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