{"id":2056134,"date":"2025-09-28T20:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2056134"},"modified":"2025-09-28T20:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:01:17","slug":"matthew-lillard-says-hes-waiting-for-that-invitation-from-james-gunn-to-join-the-dcu-i-have-wanted-to-be-in-a-superhero-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/matthew-lillard-says-hes-waiting-for-that-invitation-from-james-gunn-to-join-the-dcu-i-have-wanted-to-be-in-a-superhero-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Lillard Says He\u2019s \u2018Waiting For That Invitation\u2019 From James Gunn to Join the Dcu: \u2018I Have Wanted to Be in a Superhero World\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6200483\/\">Mathew Lillard<\/a> is hoping to go from Mystery Inc. to the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0974015\/\">Justice League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent appearance at Los Angeles Comic-Con (via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0758149\/\">ScreenRant<\/a>), Lillard spoke about his interest in reuniting with director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0348181\/\">James Gunn<\/a> on a potential DC project. The two previously collaborated on \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0267913\/\">Scooby-Doo<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0331632\/\">Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed<\/a>,\u201d where <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11874338\/\">Gunn<\/a>, now the co-head of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1064049\/\">DC Studios<\/a>, served as the screenwriter. Lillard played <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0787404\/\">Shaggy<\/a>, one of the amateur detectives who leads alongside the titular talking dog.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a long time. I have wanted to be in a superhero world,\u201d Lillard said to the audience at Los Angeles Comic-Con. \u201cI\u2019ve wanted to be in [the Dcu], if anyone\u2019s curious. If you run into James Gunn, tell him I\u2019m available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the panel, Lillard spoke about his past experience working with Gunn. \u201c[He\u2019s] one of my dear friends,\u201d said Lillard. \u201cI keep waiting for that invitation. I don\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathew Lillard is hoping to go from Mystery Inc. to the Justice League. In a recent appearance at Los Angeles Comic-Con (via ScreenRant), Lillard spoke about his interest in reuniting with director James Gunn on a potential DC project. The two previously collaborated on \u201cScooby-Doo\u201d and \u201cScooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed,\u201d where Gunn, now the co-head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2056135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2056134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Matthew-Lillard-Says-Hes-\u2018Waiting-For-That-Invitation-From-James.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2056135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}