News from iFMagazine.com:
“At the tail end of this winter’s television critic’s event, Rob Thomas announced that he’s currently working on a VERONICA MARS feature film (based on his short-lived UPN/CW show). “That means I have time to write the VERONICA MARS movie,” he says. “But my writing the movie is half the battle. Someone else has to pay for it. Joel Silver does have a certain pile of money. He called on me saying ‘Can we do this now?’ Kristen wants to do it. Joel wants to do it and I want to do it. For me, that’s the next project.”
Although he wouldn’t reveal exactly what the story would be, he did tell iF, “it’s 70 percent broken in my head.”
“I’ve been struggling with this one plot point and I’m hopeful to figure that out,” he adds. “I watched the final episode of the series a few weeks ago and there were a lot of gaps and the plotting for the original came to me. I mean for the movie, I’m feeling like I’m on the right track now. But I don’t want to give that away yet.
In terms of cast, Thomas says he’s talked with Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni and Kristen Bell. “Obviously,” he says with a smile. And while there were always talks of the character of Veronica Mars ending up at the F.B.I., he says that’s not where the movie will be heading. “The one thing that I will say is where it will pick up,” says Thomas. “I know we did that F.B.I. ‘what if’ thing, but we would not go to that place. I think it would open just days before the Hearst College Graduation. So Veronica would be sort of at the end of her college career.”
Veronica Mars is one of my all-time favourite shows and I was sad to see it cancelled. The “FBI” teaser on the third season DVD would’ve seen the show go in a hugely different direction, so it makes sense to stick to the college setting for the first (fingers crossed) movie as this would bring new viewers up to speed on what VM is all about. Hopefully if the movie is made (if you read the interview closely you’ll notice that Rob Thomas is currently only at spec script stage, with zero studio backing) and it’s a success, this could kick off a “Veronica Mars P.I.” movie franchise…
If you haven’t caught the series yet, or you’ve missed out on some episodes, the complete three-season series is available on Region 1 DVD at Amazon.com
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