With the planned Veronica Mars movie now approaching the $4 million mark on Kickstarter, people are beginning to wonder what the film will actually be about. In other words: What's happened to our V. Mars over the last decade? We know that the film will center around a 10-year class reunion for the graduates of Neptune High. In a recent chat with TV Line, series creator Rob Thomas said that, “Fans want to see those all those characters back together again, and the reunion set piece allows me to do that.”
After the incredible show of fan support his worst fear at this point is crafting a film they will not be pleased with. “If we turn in a lousy movie, that would be a sad ending to the story,” he says. True, but we have faith that that is a highly unlikely outcome. To prepare for the film, take a look at what Thomas has planned below.
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“She transferred away from Hearst college after that freshman year and went up to Stanford and finished her undergraduate degree. And then she went to Columbia Law School. She’s certainly been back to Neptune from time to time to see her dad and Mac and Wallace, but she hasn’t worked a PI case since the last one we all saw in the final episode of Season 3. She ruined her dad’s chance for re-election and she decided that that path had caused too much chaos in her life. And so she hasn’t worked a PI case in nine years. And when we meet her, she’s sort of like where Tom Cruise was in the beginning of The Firm. She’s between having graduated and taken the bar and she’s interviewing at various law firms in New York.”
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“I want to avoid getting deep into the Veronica Mars mythology. We’re not going to get ghost visits from Lilly, as much as I joked about having Amanda Seyfried in it. We’re not going to get into Veronica’s backlog of cases. I want to make the movie accessible for people who haven’t watched Veronica Mars before. All you need to know is that Veronica was a teenage private eye and she’s given it up. And there will be a moment early in the movie that will bring her back to Neptune and make her give being a private detective one more shot.”
They have an official green light from Warner Bros., but only Kristen Bell is signed on thus far. As Thomas told EW, “I want [all the actors] in the movie. The assumption is they’ll all be in the movie. We’re in negotiations with everyone. It’s one of those things where everybody wants to do it, I want everybody in it — just deals need to be made.” The creator did stress to TV Line that the film, like the show, will focus on the relationship between Veronica and her dad Keith Mars (Enrico Colantoni) - so we assume that he will be back at the very least. Who are we kidding, though? Logan will be there as well!
“Veronica will survive the movie,” Thomas told TV Line. “I can’t promise anyone else does, though. But there will be an opportunity for Veronica do to her thing again.” When the outlet asked if he was referring to something along the lines of a 10-episode Season 4 on Netflix, Thomas replied, “I’d be lying if I didn’t say I didn’t think of those things. I am hopeful it is the birth of [much more] Veronica Mars.” Who dies, though? Who dies?
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As we've noted, there's been a good amount of controversy surrounding Kickstarter being used to help fund a studio owned property. Here's what Thomas had to say to EW about the public discourse about the campaign: “I’m watching a lot of the buzz on this, and it seems to me that the people who complain the most, and the complaint is, ‘Why am I giving money to a studio to make a movie?’ as though there’s no return on that money. I think that before people look at it, their sense is, ‘Hey, I’m just throwing money at something.’ They’re not understanding that they’re getting a product in return. That’s where the disconnect is. Those people who are complaining about that, I want to say, ‘If you’re a Veronica Mars fan, you’re getting cool stuff.’ You’re getting stuff I think you would pay for anyway; you’re just pre-buying it, and by pre-buying it, you’re showing the studio that there is enough market interested in making this movie worthwhile.”
As to this being a payday for them (the cast and crew), he added, “For doing the movie, I am taking the guild-minimum. So no one is getting big upfront money. Trust me, Kristen is not getting paid close to her quote, or anywhere near. We’re all working for labor of love prices.”
Thomas also said that they're aiming for a PG-13 rating for the film, adding that Veronica would have an adult relationship at the start of the story. He did stress that the man in question will not be her old flame Logan, who she has not seen in 9 years. Oh, and for those who were wondering: Backup was a wonderdog, but sadly, Thomas feels that it would stretch the bounds of realism to assume he's lived to the present day...Maybe V. Mars will have a new girl's best friend, though.
Roth Cornet is an Entertainment Editor for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @RothCornet and IGN at Roth-IGN.
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