{"id":89115,"date":"2022-10-06T19:55:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hbo-max-adds-constance-wu-sam-richardson-to-velma-animated-series-the-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T19:55:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T19:55:10","slug":"hbo-max-adds-constance-wu-sam-richardson-to-velma-animated-series-the-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hbo-max-adds-constance-wu-sam-richardson-to-velma-animated-series-the-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max Adds Constance Wu, Sam Richardson to &#8216;Velma&#8217; Animated Series \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n<p>\tMindy Kaling&#8217;s <em>velma<\/em> \u2014 the HBO Max animated series centered on the <em>Scooby-Doo<\/em> character \u2014 has landed a star-packed voice cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n<p>\tGlenn Howerton, Sam Richardson and Constance Wu will star with Kaling in the adult animated series, which traces the origin story of Velma Dinkley (voiced by Kaling), the underappreciated brains of Mystery Inc.  The four appeared onstage together Thursday at New York Comic Con.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n<p>\tHowerton (<em>It&#8217;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia<\/em>) will play Fred in the series.  Richardson (<em>Veep, The Afterparty<\/em>) will voice Norville, aka Shaggy, and Wu (<em>Lyle, Lyle Crocodile<\/em>) will play Daphne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n<p>\tThe cast also includes Jane Lynch, Wanda Sykes, Russell Peters, Melissa Fumero, Stephen Root, Gary Cole, Ken Leung, Cherry Jones, Frank Welker, \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic, Fortune Feimster, Yvonne Orji, Sarayu Blue, Nicole Byer, Ming -Na Wen, Shay Mitchell, Debby Ryan, Kulap Vilaysak and NBA All-Star Karl-Anthony Towns.  Welker has voiced Fred in almost every animated iteration of <em>Scooby-Doo<\/em> Since its inception in 1969 and has also provided Scooby&#8217;s voice in a number of productions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n<p>\tKaling showed a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnimationOnMax\/status\/1526949756790001666\" target=\"_blank\">still from <em>velma<\/em><\/a>  at May&#8217;s upfronts that revealed the character is South Asian.  She said at the time that \u201cNo one&#8217;s imaginations ever had a problem with a talking dog solving mysteries, so I think we can handle a brown Velma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n<p>\tWhether Velma is a lesbian \u2014 as she apparently is in the latest <em>Scooby-Doo<\/em> animated movie \u2014 remains to be seen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n<p>\tKaling executive produces <em>velma<\/em> with frequent collaborator Charlie Grandy (<em>The Office, The Mindy Project<\/em>), Howard Klein and Sam Register, president of Warner Bros.  Animation, Cartoon Network Studios and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mindy Kaling&#8217;s velma \u2014 the HBO Max animated series centered on the Scooby-Doo character \u2014 has landed a star-packed voice cast. Glenn Howerton, Sam Richardson and Constance Wu will star with Kaling in the adult animated series, which traces the origin story of Velma Dinkley (voiced by Kaling), the underappreciated brains of Mystery Inc. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hbo-max-adds-constance-wu-sam-richardson-to-velma-animated-series-the-hollywood-reporter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HBO Max Adds Constance Wu, Sam Richardson to &#8216;Velma&#8217; Animated Series \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":89229,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/first-look-at-hbo-maxs-velma-is-full-of-gore-butts\/","url_meta":{"origin":89115,"position":0},"title":"First Look at HBO Max&#8217;s Velma Is Full of Gore, Butts","date":"October 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"HBO Max is teaming up with Mindy Kaling on a mature origin story for Velma and Scooby gang and we got our first look at the series at New York Comic Con.In a panel, HBO Max shared a sneak peek of the first episode which establishes Velma as an origin\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":89731,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mindy-kaling-is-velma-dinkley-in-the-teaser-for-hbo-maxs-velma\/","url_meta":{"origin":89115,"position":1},"title":"Mindy Kaling is Velma Dinkley in the teaser for HBO Max&#8217;s Velma","date":"October 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A still from velmascreenshot: HBO MaxWell, jinkies. Get ready to use that phrase a lot more now that Mindy Kaling's velma series is almost here. Co-created by Kaling and Charlie Grandy, Kaling leads HBO Max's adult animated series as the iconic Scooby-Doo character Velma Dinkley, before Velma became the iconic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":89798,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mindy-kalings-velma-hbo-max-adult-animated-series-trailer\/","url_meta":{"origin":89115,"position":2},"title":"Mindy Kaling&#8217;s Velma HBO Max Adult Animated Series Trailer","date":"October 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"screenshot: HBO MaxThe New York Comic Con 2022 panel released the first teaser for the HBO Max adult animated series velmawhich will dig into the origin of the smartest member of the Scooby-Doo gang. Earlier today, The Hollywood Reporter dropped the news that filling out Mystery Inc. are Glenn Howerton\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":90117,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/velma-nycc-trailer-panel-tease-mindy-kalings-unhinged-scooby-reboot\/","url_meta":{"origin":89115,"position":3},"title":"Velma NYCC trailer, panel tease Mindy Kaling&#8217;s unhinged Scooby reboot","date":"October 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Scream \"jinkies!\" and put on the square glasses: From Warner Bros. animation, velma is an animated comedy series unraveling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the iconic orange-turtlenecked brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang In a departure from the family-friendly approachable Scooby-Doo franchise, velma is an adult-oriented show (see\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":93222,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/5-big-takeaways-from-this-years-new-york-comic-con\/","url_meta":{"origin":89115,"position":4},"title":"5 big takeaways from this year&#8217;s New York Comic Con","date":"October 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The cast and crew of Netflix's The Midnight Club at the 2022 NYCCphoto: Photo by Jason Mendez\/Getty Images for Netflix (Getty Images)Would it be Comic Con in October if there weren't plenty of horror franchise celebrations? 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