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“At about 5:30 Saturday morning opening weekend Lorenzo DiBonaventura - the head of production at Warners, and one of the people who gave me my start - called me and woke me up at home to tell me we made 18 million the Friday before. Still, Gunn didn’t just receive bad news - he described one moment that was “one of the best days of my life.” It was kind of a film-self-involvement I’ve learned to avoid since, but needless to say it was not an exceptionally good day.”

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I also read everything written about the movie online, by, like, anybody, including bulletin board folks. “These days I might glance at the occasional review (admittedly, mostly only good ones), but back then I read EVERY. “So what do I remember from 15 years ago? I remember being bummed out that the reviews were pretty terrible,” he recalled.

However, Gunn did face another setback once “Scooby-Doo” was released. “The cast, a few members of the crew, and I, had massive games of Nerf gun tag throughout the house trying to kill each other fours,” he said. While “Scooby-Doo” ended up becoming a more family-friendly film than what Gunn originally envisioned for his story, he insisted that the cast enjoyed every moment of making the movie, even when cameras stopped rolling. And I was able to eat, buy a car, and a house because of it.” I had a lot of fun making this movie, regardless of all that. “And yes, the rumors are true - the first cut was rated R by the MPAA, and the female stars’ cleavage was CGI’d away so as not to offend,” he wrote. Gunn added the film would have looked completely different if he had it his way. Neil Fanning did the voice of the beloved canine. “Scooby-Doo” starred Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini, and Matthew Lillard as Shaggy. “Yes, it was not exactly what we planned going out - I had written an edgier film geared towards older kids and adults, and the studio ended pushing it into a clean cut children’s film.”

“I had loved the character of Scooby-Doo since I was a kid and was excited at the prospect of making a live action film with 2002’s cutting CGI technology,” wrote the 50-year-old in a lengthy Facebook post. Screenwriter James Gunn confirmed on the 15th anniversary of the 2002 premiere of “Scooby-Doo” that the film was originally an R-rated comedy.

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