Veronica Mars: The Movie

The pieces are all there. Sex and the City made a very successful jump to the big screen from TV. There is all sorts of talk about the cult favorite low-rated TV series Arrested Development making that same transition. Kristen Bell has broken out big as the titular star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. So it’s perhaps no surprise that Joel Silver has gotten Rob Thomas to write a screenplay for a movie adaptation of his low-rated cult favorite TV series starring Kristen Bell called Veronica Mars. Thomas says Silver and Bell both want to do it, and he’s talking with Jason Dohring and Enrico Colantoni as well.

Bell starred as the title character on the UPN/CW show for three seasons, a high school girl who becomes a social pariah when her father, the sheriff of Neptune, California (Colantoni), is disgraced after accusing the richest man in their rich town of killing his own daughter (Mamma Mia’s Amanda Seyfried), who was also Veronica’s best friend. This inspires Ms. Mars to become a dogged reporter for her high school newspaper, and over the course of three seasons, she graduates high school, college and heads off to join the FBI thanks to her crack detective skills. Thomas, however, insists that the FBI notion, which ended the series, would not be where his screenplay would pick up, but rather he’d start it shortly before her graduation from Hearst College.

This show was smartly written with a pop-culture-heavy Buffy The Vampire Slayer sort of sensibility, and had a strong cult following - the kind that write angry letters to networks for canceling their shows - so this should come as joyful news to the Veronica faithful. Anything that give us more of Bell is a positive development, and a TV series turned into a movie seems to have franchise potential built right in, to boot.

Watch full episodes of Veronica Mars right here, right now on Fancast.

Check out the pilot episode of Veronica Mars right here.