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20Jan2009

Inching Towards a 'Veronica Mars' Movie

DateTuesday, January 20, 2009 at 1:01AM
We may be getting that Veronica Mars movie, after all. Last month, show creator Rob Thomas said he was mulling over script ideas for a big screen version of the Kristen Bell series, but that he was too committed to his new series, Cupid, to really work on it.

But now Thomas tells iFMagazine that because the order for Cupid episodes has been cut from 13 to 8 by ABC, "That means I have time to write the Veronica Mars movie."

Thomas cautions, however, that writing a script doesn't mean the movie will be in theaters anytime soon. "Someone else has to pay for it," he says, adding, "Joel Silver does have a certain pile of money. Kristen wants to do it. Joel wants to do it and I want to do it. For me, that’s the next project."

And from the sound of it, Thomas has really given the structure of the film a lot of thought.

"I’ve been struggling with this one plot point and I’m hopeful to figure that out. 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."

"The one thing that I will say is where it will pick up. 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."

There are an awful lot of recent TV shows in various stages of development. We hear that Pushing Daisies might go big screen, and there's talk about Jericho and a few others, as well. I think you can trace this current wave of spin-offs back to The Simpsons Movie, which was basically a more expensive episode of the TV show. I'd use Serenity as my example, but that wasn't exactly a windfall for anyone.

I doubt Veronica Mars could hope for a $150 million payday, either, but if nothing else, it would allow the producers to sell more copies of the series on DVD, which is such a huge part of the process these days.

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