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> Exclusive Veronica Mars movie update: It's close
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> Feb 9, 2009, 02:17 PM | by Michael Ausiello
>
> Categories: Veronica Mars
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> Veronica Mars fans, if you pray, pray hard. And if you don't,
> start, because the cult fave's long-rumored movie version is about
> to enter the anxiety-producing phase known as do-or-die-time.
> "I'm preparing the pitch now -- literally now," Mars' main man, Rob
> Thomas, told me this morning. "I hope to go in and talk to
> [executive producer] Joel Silver and [Warner Bros.] in the next
> week or two to see if they're interested."
> But first, Thomas has to iron out the endgame of the plot, which,
> as I first reported last fall, focuses on Veronica solving a crime
> in college rather than as an FBI agent. "I haven't figured it out
> yet," he says of the final act. "That's what I'm working on now.
> It's close. A few key details left to solve."
> Thomas is quick to caution, however, that completing an outline and
> pitching the studio are just two steps of a much larger, more
> daunting process. "I have some fear that Veronica Mars fans believe
> that the chief hurdle in getting the movie made is my writing it,"
> Thomas confesses. "Unfortunately, that's only one of several
> hurdles. I'm going to give it my best shot and let the chips fall
> where they may.
> "It's entirely possible I won't have an answer at the end of the
> pitch," he continues. "They will want to consider [the pitch], look
> at some numbers -- whatever it is people on the business side do --
> and then they'll give me some sort of response. Then, if they want
> to move forward, there's the deal-making that'll need to go on."
> Surprisingly, one of the project's primary selling points won't be
> tagging along to the meeting. "Kristen [Bell] will not be joining
> me," he says. "I'm sure she has no desire to see how the sausage is
> made."
> Perhaps not, but I think I know what K. Bell would like to see: a
> comments section overflowing with messages of support and
> encouragement for Thomas as his Mars mission approaches stage:
> critical. That's your cue to get busy writing!


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