Scoob! Holiday Haunt
Warner Bros. cancelled its Scooby-Doo Christmas film while it was nearly finished; the crew completed the work anyway, but the studio never released it.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- near release
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A completed but unreleased animated feature intended as a seasonal prequel to Scoob!.
A younger Mystery Inc. would visit a holiday resort, meet its owner and confront a snowman-like monster during Christmas.
Existence timeline
Warner Bros. schedules a streaming holiday feature.
Cast, directors and crews complete most of the film.
The studio removes the near-finished project from HBO Max plans.
The production team completes remaining material after cancellation.
An orchestra records the finished musical score.
No authorised public version receives general access.
Why it ended
Warner Bros. Discovery cancelled release in August 2022 as part of a strategy change and tax-related content write-downs.
Last confirmed trace
Finished scoring sessions, crew posts, promotional stills and interviews confirm that a completed internal version exists.
What it left behind
The film joined Batgirl as a defining example of a nearly finished studio feature withheld for corporate accounting and distribution reasons.
How we classified it
The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.
The strongest verified milestone maps to near_release under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.