Big news Veronica Mars fans. Your favorite detective is going to find its way back to TV eventually. Joining co-star Ryan Hansen in Facebook Live conversation with IndieWire, Kirsten Bell revealed that Veronica Mars revival will happen.
“We are willing to put the effort in — I mean, if I have to do it as ‘Murder She Wrote’ at 80, we’re going to do it,” said Bell to IndieWire. “It’s going to happen.”
Bell also revealed that she is talking and exchanging emails with Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas constantly and that there is willingness to bring back the series. There is a small twist however since the format will be miniseries.
“… you can’t do two television shows at the same time. So we’d have to do like a miniseries.” said Bell. “Rob and I email about it every couple of months or so. And personally I think, and I think Rob probably agrees, is that a) we’ll never make the fans pay for it again and b) the format works better as an episodic [series].”
Veronica Mars premiered on UPN in 2004 and ran for 2 seasons before moving to CW for the third and final season. The show was put on hiatus in January 2007 and officially canceled in June. In 2013, Bell and Thomas launched a Kickstarter campaign in order to raise the funds for Veronica Mars feature film. The goal of $2 million was reached 10 hours after the start of the campaign. The campaign ended a month later, with 91,585 donors raising $5,7 million. It broke several Kickstarter records including the one for most money raised for a feature film. The movie was released a year after the campaign ended, and was met with positive reviews from the critics and audience. The movie, however, was not a commercial success, opening in only 347 theaters in the United States and took $3.5 million at the box office.
