TVSquad Talks To Enrico Colantoni on the "Veronica Mars" Movie

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Enrico Colantoni Talks About "Veronica Mars" Film
by Chris Harnick
posted Jun 4th 2010


Colantoni spoke with TV Squad about interacting with "Veronica Mars" fans and his hopes for a "Mars" feature film.




I spoke with "Veronica Mars" creator Rob Thomas a couple of months ago and he said he still wants to do a "Veronica Mars" movie.

I hope he does.








But, Joel Silver [an executive producer on "Mars"] came out a few days ago and said there's no way it's going to happen.

What's your stance on this? Would you do it? What do you think?

Of course I would do it. I would want it to happen, it just seems like -- I don't know, maybe Joel crunched some numbers, but it seemed like he was interested a year and half ago.


I don't understand what changed in the business, or maybe that's just it, the business changed. Maybe putting $20 million into a four million-viewer show on television isn't worth the gamble?

I think it would make an outstanding movie. I know Rob had some great ideas.








Now, "Veronica Mars" has some pretty intense fans. I may be one of them.
But, have you had a really crazy fan interaction?

No, nobody's crazy. [Laughs]

What's crazy -- what I define as crazy -- is how intensely passionate "Veronica Mars" fans are. More so than any other fans because it's like a "Just Shoot Me" fan will come and pat me on the shoulder and say, "Hey, that's fun stuff," but you can see in the fan base of "Veronica Mars" that there was an actual connection to those characters. A real appreciation at a soul level. An understanding -- an intimate understanding of those people.



It gets very intimate when I meet them on the street, it becomes very, very intimate because we shared something. I know that any fan of "Veronica Mars" is hardcore and loyal, so I give them the time, we spend time talking about because it warrants that. It's like somebody is recovering from a drug addiction or alcoholism, it's like they're in recovery, they demand time and I think that's what that show was.

After so many years it still resonates. There's nothing crazy about that. Just normally intense and intimate, they just bring that, "You're Keith Mars. You don't understand, you're Keith Mars," you know?

It's like, "Yeah, let's talk about it." [Laughs]

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