“Scooby-Doo” Detective Velma is a lesbian, at least according to writer / director James Gunn, who says he was definitely gay in his opening script for the 2002 movie.
Before the filmmaker rose to the ranks of the director of the “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies, he wrote the scripts for the live action “Scooby-Doo” and its 2004 sequel, “Monsters Unleashed” … and says that he intended for Velma to be “explicitly gay.”
Gunn was responding to a Twitter fan asking him to go back to the franchise and do a live-action gay Velma … he claims he already tried.
According to Gunn … the studio, which was Warner Bros., “kept diluting it and diluting it, becoming ambiguous (the version taken), then nothing (the released version), and finally having a boyfriend (the sequel).”
Essentially … Gunn is accusing Warner Bros. of putting the kibosh on a shotgun-ridden gay character in Mystery Machine with Scoob & co.
Gunn responded to another fan, suggesting that the 2002 movie’s home video release hinted at what he was trying to do with Velma’s sexuality in the original script.
Velma’s character in the movie was portrayed by Linda Cardellini … of “Dead to Me” and “Bloodline” fame, most recently.
