With Kristen Bell making a go of it on the big screen, talk of a movie version of her popular, cancelled teen sleuth TV series Veronica Mars has fallen to little more than desperate whispers.
But series creator and exec producer Rob Thomas has confirmed that the Veronica Mars movie isn’t quite as dead as recent reports would suggest.
Said Thomas to EW:
“There is a bit of a ticking clock [because] Kristen Bell does continue to age. And doing ‘teen detective’ [is a] dicey proposition.
“But frankly, I think Veronica Mars as a 30-year-old noir detective at some point in the future would still be interesting to me.”
Thomas shepherded his movie script to Warner Bros and producer Joel Silver, but they turned him down, believing interest in the film was too minimal to give it the go ahead.
Not that Thomas is going to give in that easily. His show was cancelled after just three seasons (mostly thanks to its poor third year), but Thomas had plans for Veronica to graduate into a fully-fledged FBI agent in a proposed fourth season.
Which is an idea that could quite easily carry over to a movie.
No doubt Thomas is waiting for Bell’s profile to hit its zenith (i.e. when she has a massive movie hit), when studios will be begging to have her head up anything for them. Let’s just hope the wait isn’t too much longer.
Fancy a Veronica Mars movie? Or should we all just move on?
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AlannaM
Apr 8th 2010, 9:27
I love Veronica Mars and was sad that it ended at the point that it did, I felt there was a lot more to her story. I would love to see a Veronica Mars movie; it would be easy to move the story on a few years to cover up Kristen Bell's ageing since the last series was filmed. Come on studios... listen to the movie-going public!
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Amelie
Apr 18th 2010, 22:50
A Veronica Mars movie would make my day. It was such an awesome show and there's still so much potential to make into a full-blown movie. They have some great characters, so who cares if its a couple of years on? Its not like she's turning wrinkly yet! It was a real shame that they cancelled it quite early on because it had an edge that was different to other teen-based shows. And i can't seem to find any Region 2 dvds of the show online, so im not sure if they even released it over here or not :( Bring on a movie!!
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