In this blog post by Michael Ausiello, he talks about how a Veronica Mars movie might still be a possibility. Apparently Rob Thomas (the TV dude--not the Matchbox 20 frontman) has a pitch and a treatment and everything.
And, as Thomas points out, the franchise does have an expiration date. Read: Kristen Bell ain't getting any younger. He does talk about how he would be interested in seeing Mars as a grownup which, I suppose, extends the movie's shelf life a little bit.
I don't usually recycle links from the interwebs on my blog, but I wanted to toss this one around a little bit. I loved the first season of Veronica Mars. If you've never seen it, you should. For me, it was the freshest, most inventive show with a teenage lead since My So-Called Life or Freaks and Geeks. Veronica was complex, troubled, and snarky. And I loved her.
I felt way less strongly about Seasons 2 and 3. Without getting all spoilery up in here, I basically felt like Mars was way more detached from both of those "mysteries" than she was with the one in Season 1. Season 2 gave us Mac, played by the lovely Tina Majorino, so it wasn't a total loss.
The idea of a Veronica Mars movie kind of turns my stomach. If I knew it could be as interesting and engaging as Season 1, I'd be down for it. But if it's going to be a good-in-concept trainwreck like the rest of the season, I'd rather just leave the Veronica Mars gang in the past and see Thomas bring a new set of characters to the big screen.
