Exclusive: 'Veronica Mars' creator Rob Thomas on the wildly successful Kickstarter movie campaign.

It's a good read.

There was a real internal debate, for me, about what kind of movie I wanted to make. Just by way of example, I really enjoyed "Side Effects," and that sort of noir thriller that I could see Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars in something like that. I liked the plotting of that movie. I had some desire, as a filmmaker, to take Veronica in a slightly new direction and do something adventurous with her. Or, there's the "give the people what they want" version. And I think partly because it's crowd-sourced, I'm going with the "give the people what they want" version. It's going to be Veronica being Veronica, and the characters you know and love. Certainly, I think I can make a fun, great movie out of that, and I'm excited about that, but it was a creative debate I had with myself, and I finally made the decision that I'm happy with it, to go with, "Let's not piss people off who all donated. Let's give them the stuff that I think that they want in the movie."

I hope fanservice doesn't get in the way of the story. I would have liked to see a "cool noir thriller"! Oh, Rob, such a Soderbergh fan. He took some inspiration from Bubble for season three.

I'm glad he's going fan-friendly with his fan-sponsored movie.

And hey, in a perfect world the movie makes a kajillion dollars and he can make another one that's a dark noir thing.

Frank- I wasn't trying to derail the discussion (though I admit I started skimming after the first 50 posts) so much as give us something additional to talk about for those so inclined. I just didn't really have anything to add to that debate that wasn't already said, and hey, Joss said something relevant.

I watched The Five Year Engagement yesterday, and no matter how much I like Emily Blunt, a lot of the movie was spent thinking "who is friends with these people for five years, especially douchelord Tom?" Hell, at least Alex was funny, and I had been informed by the internet that no one likes Chris Pratt.

But the end was sweet--it just would have been sweeter, I guess, if I'd been rooting for them at any time over the past half hour.

My exposure to Jason Segel hasn't found a character of his I like yet. For some reason (not negative!) he reminds me of bob bob, so I edit him in as a replacement to pass the time.

I had been informed by the internet that no one likes Chris Pratt.

Wait, what? Who doesn't like Chris Pratt??

I hope fanservice doesn't get in the way of the story.

That's the only part of the interview that gave me pause. Stick with your original version of noir, Rob! I just know what he thinks fans want is the whole Veronica/Logan 4ever stuff and that is NOT what this fan wants.

I had been informed by the internet that no one likes Chris Pratt.

Yeah, whichever part of the internet you were speaking to was smoking some monkey crack. He plays Andy Dwyer from Parks and Rec! Hating Andy would be like hating puppies and rainbow. And he played Bright in Everwood and boy, I loved Bright.

IO9 was totally hating on him! I had never watched P&R, so had no opinion, but I don't see what the horror was based on that fairly irritating movie.

Hating Andy would be like hating puppies and rainbow.

Seriously.

Also, I really liked him and Anna Faris and their families on Top Chef.

John Rogers on Veronica Mars and Kickstarter: [link]

That is a guy who's good at saying things.

Which I mean on a few levels.

That was great. I'm only confused about one thing: what does he mean by IP?