Veronica Mars - Veronica Mars Movie S&S #1: $5.7 million was raised for the #VeronicaMarsMovie! We did it, marshmallows! Is it 2014 yet?

**mockingjay** · 06-01-2013, 03:01 PM

thanks for making the thread!

still cant believe we're actually getting a movie!

AlwaysCB · 06-01-2013, 03:02 PM

Me neither

I think this thread should be topped, what do you think?

courtneybangelcakes · 06-01-2013, 03:08 PM

yay so happy we have an official movie thread!

**forever yours** · 06-01-2013, 03:09 PM

OMG, can't believe this is happening.

AlwaysCB · 06-01-2013, 03:09 PM

soooo exciited!

**forever yours** · 06-01-2013, 03:11 PM

Hopefully, we get pics on set and some spoilers and such.

**mockingjay** · 06-01-2013, 03:22 PM

think the thread should be topped too

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Wired: So in terms of the film’s plot, what’s happened to Veronica since the last time that we saw her at the end of Season 3?

Rob Thomas: Not only that was the last time she worked a case, but she left Neptune shortly there after. She ruins her father’s career as an officer of the law, and he gets indicted.

Wired: No!

Rob Thomas: Yes. Veronica transfers to Stanford, graduates, and goes to Columbia Law School. And as we pick up the movie, it’s sort of like Tom Cruise at the beginning of The Firm. She’s finished law school, is waiting to take the bar, and interviewing with law firms. But then something happens in Neptune that pulls her back, and makes her metaphorically pick up her magnifying glass again.

Wired: A lot of Veronica’s appeal came from this sense that she was an underdog, but presumably in the adult world she’s getting recognition for her talents in ways that she didn’t from her cliquey high school classmates. Has her character outgrown that underdog status, or is that something you wanted to continue in the film?

Rob Thomas: It was certainly what I was working towards at the end of season 3. If we’d had a season 4, I wanted to get Veronica back into an underdog state. I think we liked Veronica best as a pariah of sorts.

Wired: How do you think fans’ attitudes and expectations about the show have changed since the show ended? Do they’re looking for nostalgia or growth in Veronica and the rest of the cast?

Rob Thomas: I think they’re looking for both. I know there’s something just automatically hook-y about a 17-year-old girl who’s a private eye. There’s less of a hook when it’s a 27-year-old woman. It’s a little more normal, a little more inside-the-box. … You have to make it work as a PI movie. And I understand the cons of nostalgia, but there are some Veronica Mars pleasure zones that I want to hit. If there were a [James] Bond movie and there wasn’t a martini scene – there are just certain things where I’d be cheating the audience if I didn’t include them. But I want it to work as a standalone movie as well for people who have never seen Veronica Mars, and just heard buzz about it and want to check it out finally when it’s a movie. I had never watched Firefly, but I’d heard the buzz so I went and saw the movie. I hope there are plenty of people who will give the Veronica Mars movie that chance.

Rob Thomas on His $5M Veronica Mars Kickstarter and the Future of Fan-Funded Film | Underwire | Wired.com

AlwaysCB · 06-01-2013, 03:26 PM

Thanks for that!

**mockingjay** · 06-01-2013, 03:44 PM

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Set a decade after the show’s third and final season, the plot has Veronica returning to her hometown of Neptune, California, after much schooling (a bachelor’s from Stanford; a Columbia Law School degree) when she gets a distress call from ex-boyfriend Logan: His pop-star girlfriend has been murdered, and he’s the prime suspect.

Veronica Mars Movie Plot Details Reveal A New Murder Mystery - CinemaBlend.com

**Mason30** · 06-01-2013, 03:45 PM

its official. this is the best thread in the world. the fact that it exists makes me unbelievably happy

AlwaysCB · 06-01-2013, 03:56 PM

**Something Special** · 06-01-2013, 04:39 PM

this thread makes me happy. like really.

AlwaysCB · 06-01-2013, 05:08 PM

Have you heard the news? Danielle Stokdyk and Dan Etheridge will rejoin Rob Thomas as producers for The Veronica Mars Movie!

'Like' if you're excited that the gang is back!

Photo by theveronicamarsmovie • Instagram

**mockingjay** · 06-01-2013, 05:24 PM

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So do you basically have plans for every significant character, if in theory you can get them? Or does it become unwieldy at a certain point?

Rob Thomas: Or if they didn't die. Ryan Devlin, who played our rapist in season 3, is one of my favorite actors, but I don't think I could explain away how he got out of prison. Though Ryan did send me an entire pitch from his dad on how he got out on good behavior.

Frankly, I want to see Corny in the show, I want to see Madison Sinclair in the show. There was a real internal debate, for me, about what kind of movie I wanted to make. Just by way of example, I really enjoyed "Side Effects," and that sort of noir thriller that I could see Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars in something like that. I liked the plotting of that movie. I had some desire, as a filmmaker, to take Veronica in a slightly new direction and do something adventurous with her. Or, there's the "give the people what they want" version. And I think partly because it's crowd-sourced, I'm going with the "give the people what they want" version. It's going to be Veronica being Veronica, and the characters you know and love. Certainly, I think I can make a fun, great movie out of that, and I'm excited about that, but it was a creative debate I had with myself, and I finally made the decision that I'm happy with it, to go with, "Let's not piss people off who all donated. Let's give them the stuff that I think that they want in the movie."

Exclusive: Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas on the wildly successful Kickstarter movie campaign


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