Don’t worry – we’re one of those twelve people.
According to an interview with the New York Post website’s Pop Wrap column, “Veronica Mars” creator Rob Thomas (no, he has nothing to do with Matchbox 20), has more or less said that the teenage sleuth (played by “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” cutie Kristen Bell) has been put to rest permanently.
For those of us where fans of the whip smart, super suspenseful show, this is a crushing blow.
“While the pitch [to producer Joel Silver] went well and I don’t think the movie’s dead, right now it’s looking depressing,” the site says. Pop Wrap talked to Thomas while he was out promoting his new Starz series, “Party Down.” (He also has a reboot of his late-1990’s comedy-drama “Cupid” coming to ABC later this spring.)
He continued: “I think honestly if we would have had the pitch ready a year earlier, it would be a go project. The hope that we would get a quick greenlight didn’t materialize. This is the least optimistic I’ve felt in a while.”
Those of us who don’t have healthy sex lives will remember that, while the Veronica Mars series ended on a bit of a cliffhanger, the final season’s DVD set contained a 20 minute mini-pilot for a new series featuring the Veronica Mars character. In this proposed set-up for season 4, which jumped ahead several years, Mars was a young, Clarice Starling-style crime whiz studying at the FBI’s training faculty at Quantico. It was very cool, every bit as sharp and involving as the series proper. One wonders if the proposed movie would have kept Veronica in college or flash forwarded to her Quantico days or (gasp!) beyond, showing Mars as a full fledged F.B.I. Agent. Who knows. If you hold your breath for this one, you’ll probably turn blue. – Drew Taylor
