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It\u2019s been more than two decades since Matthew Lillard played Shaggy in James Gunn\u2019s pair of \u201cScooby-Doo\u201d movies. But now that Gunn is in charge of DC Studios, the actor says he\u2019d love the chance to join the \u201cSuperman\u201d director\u2019s new universe.<\/p>\n
Lillard was asked about the chance to join DC by a fan at Los Angeles Comic-Con, where he was part of a panel alongside his co-stars from the 1996 horror classic \u201cScream,\u201d Jamie Kennedy and Skeet Ulrich.<\/p>\n
More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time, I have wanted to be in a superhero world,\u201d Lillard told the crowd. \u201cI\u2019ve wanted to be in [DCU]\u2014If anyone\u2019s curious, if you run into James Gunn, tell him I\u2019m available.\u201d<\/p>\n Lillard is already set to jump into his first superhero project with the upcoming second season of Marvel\u2019s \u201cDaredevil: Born Again,\u201d though his role is still currently under wraps. If he were to add DC to his career resume, he would join the likes of Michelle Pfieffer (\u201cAnt-Man and the Wasp\u201d and \u201cBatman Returns\u201d) and Ryan Reynolds (\u201cGreen Lantern\u201d and \u201cDeadpool\u201d) who have been on both sides of the comic book divide.<\/p>\n Of course, Gunn himself is also on that list, having taken over as co-chief of DC Studios after completing his \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d trilogy. In his short time at DC, he has already recruited a few of the stars of the \u201cGuardians\u201d films for his DC projects, like Michael Rooker in the opening of \u201cThe Suicide Squad\u201d and in a brief voice role in \u201cSuperman.\u201d Bradley Cooper and Pom Klementieff, who played Rocket and Mantis in the \u201cGuardians\u201d films, also had cameo roles in \u201cSuperman.\u201d<\/p>\n So it\u2019s not out of the question for Gunn to call on prior collaborators for future DC films, and Lillard is definitely onboard.<\/p>\n \u201cJames is one of my dear friends. I keep waiting for that invitation, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s lost in the mail,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n Lillard will next appear in \u201cFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2,\u201d reprising his role as the villainous William Afton. It will hit theaters December 5.<\/p>\n The post Matthew Lillard Would Love to Reunite With James Gunn on DC Film: \u2018Tell Him I\u2019m Available\u2019<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s been more than two decades since Matthew Lillard played Shaggy in James Gunn\u2019s pair of \u201cScooby-Doo\u201d movies. But now that Gunn is in charge of DC Studios, the actor says he\u2019d love the chance to join the \u201cSuperman\u201d director\u2019s new universe. Lillard was asked about the chance to join DC by a fan at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2063353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[320697,41332,385114,22693,382467,376039,385113],"class_list":["post-2063352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-dc-studios","tag-james-gunn","tag-jamie-kennedy","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-comic-con","tag-matthew-lillard","tag-skeet-ulrich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Matthew-Lillard-Would-Love-to-Reunite-With-James-Gunn-on.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063352","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=2063352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063354,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063352\/revisions\/2063354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2063353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}