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I actually felt kinda sad when the first Lamb died.
 
I wasn't so much sad as just shocked. The death felt weirdly unceremonious in an age where TV shows tend to blow as much smoke over major characters dying as they can.
 
http://tvline.com/2013/07/19/veronica-mars-comic-con-2013-movie-spoilers/
Veronica Mars @ Comic-Con: Movie Sneak Peek Reveals Punchy V and Hot, Wet Logan, Piz & Dick
BY VLADA GELMAN

As hardcore fans know, the plot of the upcoming Veronica Mars film finds Veronica “getting pulled back into this life that she thought she had left behind,” series creator and movie mastermind Rob Thomas told fans during Friday’s Comic-Con panel, which also featured a sneak peek at the flick.

But what even the toastiest Marshmallow may not know is that it’s ex-boyfriend Logan who says, “I need your help, Veronica.” Her reply: “I don’t really do that anymore.” Yeah… that’s not going to fly.

LoVe ‘shippers will be happy to know the two share plenty of screen time in the preview, which showed them riding in Logan’s car and talking in someone’s (Veronica’s?) digs. But the scene that will make fans squeal the most? The guys of the film – Logan, Dick, Piz, Weevil, etc. – wearing soaking wet dress shirts and marching forward.

Other highlights from the sizzle reel included: Madison tauntingly asking Veronica if she’s going to taze her, until V finally punches her enemy and quips, “Original enough for you?”; True Lies star Jamie Lee Curtis (!) reeling off the P.I.’s accomplishments; and a Neptune High reunion fight that prompts Piz to remark that the school “actually does sit on a hellmouth.” (Way to earn some points with that Buffy reference!) Oh, and Weevil’s married!

The panel discussion — in which Thomas was joined by stars Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Ryan Hansen, Jason Dohring, Tina Majorino, Chris Lowell, Percy Daggs III and Francis Capra — revealed a (Neptune) pirate’s plunder of goodies. Among them:

HAPPY REUNION | The film “has a Godfather III theme to it,” shared Thomas, who wasn’t worried about balancing fan expectations with his own desires. “I think the story that I wanted to tell is the one I think fans wanted to see. I wanted to get the old gang back together.”

‘SHIPPER WARS | Lowell sported a “Team Logan” shirt, while Dohring’s said “Team Piz.” “I wore this shirt today so I wouldn’t be shot when I stepped on stage,” joked Lowell. The actor added that when Thomas announced Piz’s inclusion in the film, Lowell’s reaction was, “The death threats have almost stopped. Why now?!”

TOGETHER AGAIN | Bell’s first scene on the movie shoot was with Dohring. “We just kept staring and going, ‘Are we really here right now?’” recalled the actress. Speaking of the couple, when a fan asked who taught Dohring how to smolder, Bell replied, “The heavens?” The actor also got props from co-star Hansen, who was a novice when the show first started. “Jason was like my acting coach,” Hansen said of those early days.

NO FAMILY AFFAIR | Alyson Hannigan’s Trina isn’t in the movie, and series characters like Duncan and Beaver won’t get mentions, either. “A lot of thought went into that,” explained Thomas. “I wanted to write the movie in such a way that for the fans, there’s plenty of Easter eggs… that you will appreciate because you watched the TV series.” But the EP noted that people who are new to the project will be able to understand it, too. “I wanted the movie to be the start of something.” Dohring also teased that there are “lots of other surprises that people don’t know about that will be cool.”

CHEMISTRY ALERT | Thomas reminisced that Veronica and Logan’s first kiss in Season 1 got him choked up. “I rewound it and rewound and rewound,” he said. “Then my wife entered, and I had tears in my eyes. It was an embarrassing moment that I was watching my own work, a kiss. It just felt so earned to me.”

TO THE BIG SCREEN AGAIN | Thomas said he hopes the flick — which will likely be released in early 2014 — is only the first of many films. “I want to be a Bond franchise. I hope to make a ton of money on this movie and we get to do it [through] the normal channels. If we’re a huge hit — I don’t think Kickstarter is meant to fund huge hits.”
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Comic-Con: VERONICA MARS Panel Recap; Kristen Bell, Rob Thomas and the Cast Talk Kickstarter, New Story and Plot Points, Reprising Their Characters and More

by Matt Goldberg Posted 2 hours ago

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I’ve shared my skepticism in the past about the Veronica Mars movie, but that’s been related to how it relates to funding in Hollywood rather than the content of the picture itself. I’ve seen all three seasons, and while I felt it was diminishing returns, I can see it’s appeal, and it’s a world that could reasonably be adapted into a feature film. At today’s Comic-Con panel, we got a brief glimpse at the film, but it left me cold. Perhaps appropriately, this panel was for the fans rather than anyone else in Hall H even though Thomas stated that they want to open the property up to newcomers. Based on what we saw and heard, they still have a way to go.
Hit the jump for my recap of the Comic-Con panel. Veronica Mars is eyeing an early 2014 release.


Moderator Jeff Jensen brings the panelists on stage: Francis Capra (Weevil), Enrico Colantoni (Keith Mars), Percy Daggs III (Wallace), Ryan Hansen (Dick), Tina Majorino (Mac), Chris Lowell (Piz), who was wearing a “Team Logan” shirt, Jason Dohring (Logan), who was wearing a “Team Piz” shirt, creator Rob Thomas, and Veronica Mars herself, Kristen Bell.

We then lead off with a featurette and trailer. The featurette briefly goes through the Kickstarter campaign, shows some behind-the-scenes stuff (including some Kickstarter backers on set), some brief scenes, and then we lead into a teaser trailer. It opens with Bell in a job interview, which allows the picture to provide exposition about her character, but then we launch mostly into seeing the cast at a reunion. In terms of plot, it didn’t provide much. It was coasting mostly on fans just being excited to see the characters again, and I’m sure they got a thrill and laugh when Dick comes along and breaks out his belt-buckle flask. There was nothing particularly revelatory, and I hope it’s released online because this should be for everyone who backed the film, not just those who backed the film and had the money to come to Comic-Con.

Rob Thomas talking about the story and plot:

  • “It’s a weird reference,” he says, but it has a Godfather III theme. We find Veronica not having worked as a P.I. since we saw her in season 3, so part of her is getting pulled back into her old life. He also feels that the story he wants to tell is the story that fans will want to see.
Bell recalling the show’s cancelation:

  • Says she suffers from a bad memory and has probably “blocked it out”, but then she remembered she found out the day before she shot the scene in Forgetting Sarah Marshall where her character said her show had been canceled.

The feeling of coming back to the role:

  • There were jitters especially her first scene with Dohring because there was a sense of disbelief of it actually happening. Her first line back was: “Charming drink names. I can’t decide between ‘the beast between two backs’ and ‘donkey punch’. Ooh! Do you think they’d let me order a ‘virgin de-virginator’?’”
Majorino’s thoughts on reprising her role as Mac:

  • - On her first day back, she was in the makeup trailer wondering when she was going to see everybody again. She got to see Kristen first, then Ryan, then Chris, then Percy, and so on. “Every day on the set has been so appropriate because this movie is about reuniting…so to come back to set and living as yourself and as your character simultaneously has been really exciting and fun.” Capra adds that it was unforgettable to reunite with everyone and thanks the audience, “You all brought my family back together.”
Colantoni on reprising the father-daughter relationship between Keith and Mars:

  • It was easy since Kristen and he hang out a hockey games, and it’s easy for him to have a paternal feeling, and now that she’s a mother, there’s more for them to talk about.


Hansen talking about reuniting for the Kickstarter video:

  • They shot it at Kristen’s friend’s house. They put it together quickly even though no one had asked them to put them together. Dax Shepard (Bell’s husband) then built her a little puppet set over the weekend with stuff he bought from Home Depot, and then she, Thomas, and others got together to create the puppet show (which was an interesting experience for Thomas when he brought the puppets through airport security).
On the expected fan reaction to Piz’ return and the fans’ animosity because he broke up Veronica and Logan, Lowell felt he had to prepare himself. He also says the character name has kind of stuck to the point where his friends rearranged the letters on his Prius so it would spell “Piz”.

Audience Q&A:

If Bell did anything special the other day on set to celebrate her birthday:

  • They shot until 5:00am on Wednesday, and at about 12:20 or so, Thomas made the whole crew sing Happy Birthday. “Other than singing and celebrating with people…that makes it sound really un-special, but it was really fun.”
How do you jump back into a character who is ten years older?

  • Bell doesn’t feel like she struggled with getting back because there’s a very strong connection between her brain and Thomas’ brain. She says she’s never had that experience anywhere else. But something about Veronica’s voice has always been easy for her to jump into.
Their favorite moments from the show:

  • Thomas was re-watching the first kiss between Logan and Veronica, and he kept rewinding it and rewinding it to the point where he started to cry because he felt that they had earned that moment.
  • Hansen finds a way to swing this topic by revealing his “Team Dick” shirt, but he also says that he learned to cry by working with Dohring. “He hit me nuts,” says Hansen.
  • Colantoni has a fond moment of watching seasons one through three with his daughter, and he kept catching his daughter looking back between her father and for Kristen. “And she’ll never have a dad like Keith Mars in her life,” deadpans Colantoni.
They finish shooting in two days. Thomas goes on to say that in terms of the budget, and the smart way would have been to do very few sets and guest starts, “and that’s not what we did. We made an incredibly ambitious, sprawling low-budget movie.” They had to move so fast that they only got three to four shots at a line reading, so they were always racing the clock in their 20-day-shoot. The moderator asks if they could get an extra million dollars, what would they get that’s not in the movie now? “More shooting days,” says Thomas.



Don’t expect to see any dead Echolls family members, but there will be some surprises.

“Who taught Jason how to smolder?” “The heavens,” Bell responds.
Regarding a question about improvising, Bell says there’s value in it, but a really good writer should be militant about his words. 99% of the time, Bell feels like she has an instinct for how Thomas wants the line read. “Our job as actors isn’t to try to 1-up what Rob has done, because it simply doesn’t need it. It’s already perfect on the page.”
Is there going to be any mention of characters who died during the show?

  • “The big answer is no,” says Thomas, but there are plenty of Easter eggs for fans of the series. However, he didn’t want to weigh the film down with old references because he wants “the film to be the start of something” so it needs to appeal to the uninitiated. The most essential element is that newcomers understand Veronica’s odd job in high-school, and not get bogged down in “mythology.”
If the people on the panel could play any other character in the series, who would they play?

  • Lowell: “Logan. Logan. Logan. Logan.”
  • Hansen “Dick”
  • Lohring: “Dick
  • Percy: “Weevil”
  • Colantoni: “Vinnie Van Lowe”
  • Bell: “Dick”
  • Thomas: “Principal Clemens”
The movie will come out in early 2014. The first of the new Veronica Mars books will come out soon after and pick up where the movie left off.

Closing thoughts:

There’s nothing wrong with appealing directly to the fans, especially at Comic-Con, and by that metric, the panel for Veronica Mars was a success. Personally, I wanted them to get a little deeper into the film’s creation via Kickstarter, but that only extended as far as everyone saying how great it was to be back together again, which is obvious. However, fans will share in the joy of that reunion. The big question is if the film will be a big party everyone can come to, or if only fans are invited despite Thomas’ stated wish that the movie will open the doors to everyone.
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Sawyer said:
I wasn't so much sad as just shocked. The death felt weirdly unceremonious in an age where TV shows tend to blow as much smoke over major characters dying as they can.
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Well, I loved all the *****ey back and forths he'd have on the show. And yeah, his death pretty much came out of nowhere for me.
 
SDCC Sneak Peak...

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:atp:

"I've been growing this Dick hair for my whole life." :lmao:
 
The only thing about the series I didn't like was that it didn't spur Kristen Bell onto greater heights. I was convinced the show would catapult her to bigger and better things, but maybe that was the heart talking not the brain. :( I still love her though. :hrt:
 
jmc said:
The only thing about the series I didn't like was that it didn't spur Kristen Bell onto greater heights. I was convinced the show would catapult her to bigger and better things, but maybe that was the heart talking not the brain. :( I still love her though. :hrt:
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Agreed.
 
I didn't really get into the show, but I definitely liked Veronica and Logan. And the movie does look like fun... have to check it out.
 
I was at the Comic Con panel, and I loved how the cast have such a great bonding.
 
Eh, I'm still Team Veronica/JMC.
 
Of course Veronica should choose Logan, they are meant for eachother. Piz is fine but come on, he doesn't compare.
 
LOL at them acting like there was ever a Team Veronica/Piz.

That said, I kinda hope there isn't too much focus on the "love triangle." Veronica's love life was never the reason I tuned into this show, and I feel like when the show started focusing more and more on that is when it really started to go downhill.
 
God, I hate shippers. :o

Just let **** happen.
 
flickchick85 said:
LOL at them acting like there was ever a Team Veronica/Piz.

That said, I kinda hope there isn't too much focus on the "love triangle." Veronica's love life was never the reason I tuned into this show, and I feel like when the show started focusing more and more on that is when it really started to go downhill.
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There's a Team Veronica/Piz, because there's a Team Anyone/Anyone Else for any show of the last 20 years, but I can't imagine that Team is too large, because there's not much there.

I'm with you on the rest, the romances were never really a draw for me, and the liveliest one was Veronica/Logan, but the Veronica/Logan of season two, after their first break-up, consistently and wonderfully sniping and sparring.
 
Homer J. Fong said:
There's a Team Veronica/Piz, because there's a Team Anyone/Anyone Else for any show of the last 20 years, but I can't imagine that Team is too large, because there's not much there.

I'm with you on the rest, the romances were never really a draw for me, and the liveliest one was Veronica/Logan, but the Veronica/Logan of season two, after their first break-up, consistently and wonderfully sniping and sparring.
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Thing about Veronica Mars was that it was never a typical teen drama, the romances were never a big part of the show. It was very much a detective show that just happen to feature a teenage girl. The first two seasons have very much a classic noir vibe, especially season one. I still recommend the series to this day, in fact it's probably one of the last genuinely good network TV show to hit before all the good stuff started heading over to HBO and other premium cable channels.
 
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