I was not an original "Marshmallow" as Veronica Mars herself, Kristen Bell, likes to refer to us. I was converted while laying flat on my back after my cancer surgery. My good friend Deb not only did my laundry during that time, but she gave me the wonderland of Neptune, CA and the sassy Veronica Mars on DVD to help pass the time.
It was there I discovered the UPN/CW Network short-lived series about a high school girl who sidelined as a private detective. Veronica came by her obsession honestly, her dad was the local sheriff. Keith Mars (Enrico Colantoni) was a single dad to a very unwieldy teenaged girl. Veronica did her best to take care of her dad despite her penchant for trouble. I liken their relationship to that of Molly Ringwald and Harry Dean Stanton in the John Hughes 80's classic Pretty in Pink, except Keith Mars wasn't a loser drunk. Veronica's best friend Lily Kane (Amanda Seyfried) is murdered and Veronica dives in head first into the nefarious doings of her small town to find out who her killer is. All the while, Veronica is still a high school student wending her way through the usual challenges of boys, and classes, and expectations, and well, more boys. There's the bad boy Logan (Jason Dohring), all his smoldering looks and misunderstood ways, Veronica's best friend and fellow investigator, Wallace Fennel (Percy Daggs III), the resident gang banger Eli (Francis Capra) and many many more. I was truly upset that I never made this show a part of my regular viewing and thereby helped to kill it, perhaps before it's time.
Now, however, I have taken part in breathing life back into this show. You see, this movie isn't being made because the studios thought it would be a good idea. This movie is being made because the people who watch TV and movies thought it would be a good idea. Writer/creator Rob Thomas and Bell took it to the people through the Web site Kickstarter. Kickstarter is a site that does what is referred to as crowd-sourcing. If you have a project, whether it be creative, business, or charitable, Kickstarter allows you to collect funding for the project. The goal to get the movie made was $2 million. The site went active on March 13, 2013, and took all of 11 hours to fully fund the project. At the moment I am writing this 50,312 people have backed the movie and $3,3210,038 has been raised. And every time I toggle over there, it goes up and up. Check it out here http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-mars-movie-project
I know, it seems kind of silly and shallow. Can't that money be given to feed the poor or support something important? The answer is yes, yes, it could. But, it's also kind of exciting to see we are in era where anything is possible and that the voice of the people can matter. So, if we can raise $2 million to make a movie, then maybe other more important things can be brought to the forefront and funded.
In the meantime, I am waiting patiently for my T-shirt, my shooting script, and my glimpse of what Neptune is like in 2013.
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