Since it was mentioned on the live UnCut show this evening I thought I would dig it up and it turns out hte rumour wheels are running. An impromptu meeting with Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell took place and the subject on the plate was a Veronica Mars Movie.
The creator of Veronica Mars was sitting down with his beloved, lamented series’ star, Kristen Bell, to discuss bringing the cult hit to the big screen.
Seriously.
The impromptu powwow took place last week in the offices of Thomas’ Hollywood-based production company, which just so happens to be located on the same lot where Bell is shooting Heroes. “Kristen and I ran into each other, and we did discuss a Veronica movie,” confirms Thomas, who says he has also had “a few conversations” with Mars executive producer Joel Silver.
Now they were going to pass each other sooner or later, so it makes sense that they would talk a little shop about the show they worked on for 3 years. Maybe he was just testing the waters.
I would LOVE to see more Veronica Mars, but personally I would love to see more of it on TV. The show was awesome and it was taking a good direction right near its end.
Typically when a teen based show skips up to the college years, it jumps the shark. Veronica slid smoothly into that role. The teen sleuth made the appropriately logical transition from private investigator kid to actually making it count. She studied criminology.
Originally she wanted to follow in daddy’s footsteps running the Mars Agency (Enrico Colantoni was awesome) but gets a highly covetted internship with the FBI. Then the show is cancelled. Craptastic!
The plan was to fast forward the story to Veronica’s graduation and her first day on the job as an FBI Agent. I was really looking forward to seeing this progression of the show. The first episode was filmed and portions were conveniently leaked out to the net (to rally fan support no doubt) and I have to say I loved where it was going.
Too bad it never went. I would imagine if they do get around to making a Veronica Mars movie it might be a TV Special at best, and maybe if its a big enough hit, the show will see new light. Sadly TV doesn’t seem to work that way.
