With the recent news that ...
Question: With the recent news that Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas discussed a
Veronica Mars movie (which would be great, but I'm not holding my breath), my question is do you think this would be a good idea creatively? I mostly agree with
your opinion that the
Sex and the City and
X-Files movies both could have been much better and/or better off not being made. For the record, I am still a huge fan of both shows and couldn't wait to go see both movies when they came out. But those shows were able to tell their story during their TV run and had just about as much closure as one can expect to get from a TV series. But I feel that the fact that Rob Thomas decided to leave things open-ended so it would be "harder" for the network to cancel the show puts
VM in a different situation. While I know I should just be happy we got three seasons of
Veronica Mars, I can't help wanting to know what happened to Veronica, Keith, Logan, Wallace, etc. And as far as a recent movie based on a short-lived TV show goes,
Serenity seemed to do well in
Firefly's case. Do you think a movie could work in
Veronica's?
Answer: This is clearly a story some people won't let die, and with all due respect, I wish they would. I'll be happy to eat my skeptical words, but in what universe could a
Veronica Mars feature film fly? I'm not doubting the producer's and star's statements, but it sounds to me like hollow pandering to the fans. The show is over, and I still think Rob Thomas was nuts to leave unanswered questions in the finale since it was so obvious at the time that it wasn't going to be part of the CW's future.
Serenity at least made sense (although the news of its resurrection took me by surprise) because it belongs to a genre, the action-oriented space opera, where a smartly budgeted movie can be guaranteed a decent amount of interest by sci-fi fans, even those who may not have seen the original series. And there was a justified feeling that
Firefly never got its due during its truncated time on Fox, whereas
Veronica Mars had three entire seasons to make its case. And its odd hybrid of coming-of-age drama with detective mystery makes it a bit of a hard sell for feature distribution, or even straight-to-DVD release. But if you're selling me the idea of a TV-movie (for the CW or elsewhere) in which Veronica finally makes it to the FBI, tying up loose ends while giving us a sense of her future, I'd buy that. I just wish the networks were in that business (see today's opening question).
