The TV show Veronica Mars won new life this week when fans decided to fund a new movie via Kickstarter, a funding platform for creative projects.
From the LA Times
And so there will be a "Veronica Mars" movie, because on Wednesday some 30,000 fans (and counting) pledged $2 million (and counting) via Kickstarter, the popular crowd-funding website, to make it so.
. . . the show ... was created by Rob Thomas ("Party Down") and starred Kristen Bell as a teenage girl detective in fictional, coastal Neptune, Calif. (It was canceled in 2007 after two seasons on UPN and one on the CW, into which UPN had been folded.)
. . . By 9 a.m. Thursday, Thomas had exceeded his stated goal — the amount a Kickstarter project has to reach or the pledges are voided — by nearly $700,000, with 29 out of 30 fund-raising days left to go. By Sunday morning, nearly 55,000 backers had signed on, pledging more than $3.5 million.
Lucky them! Of course the fans of Firefly immediately wondered if they could contribute to the same type of fund to resurrect their favorite show, but Joss Whedon had to put the brakes on the endeavor for now:
Via Den of Geek
Buzzfeed talked to Whedon, a long-time Veronica Mars fan, and he admitted that he was thrilled to see the movie project funded, and funded in the way it's been. "It feels like a real game-changer", he admitted.
And then the obvious question. Is this something he'd consider to get more Firefly off the ground?
"I've said repeatedly that I would love to make another movie with these guys, and that remains the case. It also remains the case that I'm booked up by Marvel for the next three years, and that I haven't even been able to get Dr Horrible 2 off the ground because of that".
He added that "I don't even entertain the notion of entertaining the notion of doing this, and won't. Couple years from now, when Nathan's no longer [working on] Castle and I'm no longer the Tom Hagen of the Marvel Universe and making a giant movie, we might look and see where the market is then. But right now, it's a complete non-Kickstarter for me".
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