James Gunn has said he initially wrote Scooby Doo character Velma to be ‘explicitly gay’ when working on the 2002 live-action Scooby Doo movie.The 53-year-old filmmaker, who is better known nowadays for directing the Guardians of the Galaxy films, claimed that film studio Warner Bros ‘watered down’ Velma’s sexuality in Gun’s script – with the character then getting a boyfriend in the 2004 sequel.In an online question and answer session with the director, one Twitter used asked: “Please make our live-action lesbian Velma dreams come true.”Gunn responded: “I tried!
In 2001 Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script. But the studio just kept watering it down and watering it down, becoming ambiguous (the version shot), then nothing (the.
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