Veronica Mars Dvd

Veronica Mars is a 2014 American neo-noir mystery film produced and directed by Rob Thomas, who co-wrote the script with Diane Ruggiero. It is a continuing film adaptation based on the television series of the same name created by Thomas. The film stars Kristen Bell as the titular character, alongside a supporting cast that includes Jason Dohring, Francis Capra, Krysten Ritter, Percy Daggs III, Tina Majorino, Ryan Hansen, Chris Lowell and Enrico Colantoni, each reprising their roles. Set nine years after the events of the series finale, the plot follows Veronica Mars returning to her hometown in Neptune to investigate the death of a former classmate allegedly murdered by Mars’ ex-boyfriend, Logan Echolls.

After the series’ cancellation in 2007, Thomas wrote a feature film script, continuing the story. However, Warner Bros. declined to fund the project. On March 13, 2013, Thomas and Bell launched a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter to produce the film. It attained its goal of $2 million in eleven hours, breaking several Kickstarter records, including being the largest successful film project on the website. After raising a budget of $5 million by the end of its run, principal photography began in June 2013 in Los Angeles, and concluded in July 2013. An additional day of shooting took place in December 2013.

Plot

Nine years after the events of the show’s third season, former teenage sleuth Veronica Mars has left the fictional town of Neptune, California, and moved to New York City, where she is in a relationship with Stosh “Piz” Piznarski and has a job offer from the prestigious law firm Truman-Mann and Associates. She is contacted by her ex-boyfriend Logan Echolls, now a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, who has been accused of murdering his girlfriend Carrie Bishop, a fellow Neptune High graduate who became a self-destructive pop star under the stage name “Bonnie DeVille”. He is being bombarded for offers of representation from lawyers, and Veronica agrees to return to Neptune and help Logan find one who will best represent him. She reunites with her father Keith Mars, Neptune’s former sheriff-turned-private investigator, who shows her how corruption and classism are rife under Sheriff Dan Lamb.

Veronica investigates the circumstances of Carrie’s death. During her investigation, she is dragged to her ten-year high school reunion by friends Wallace Fennell and Cindy “Mac” MacKenzie. There, she learns that former outlaw biker Eli “Weevil” Navarro is now a reformed family man. During the reunion, Veronica realizes Carrie’s murder is connected to the death of Carrie’s best friend, Susan Knight, who disappeared off a boat at sea nine years earlier. After Veronica’s nemesis Madison Sinclair plays a copy of Veronica’s college sex tape with Piz, a fight breaks out. The reunion comes to an abrupt end as Veronica sets the sprinklers off. She attends an after party and speaks with Dick Casablancas; Luke Haldeman and his fiancée Gia Goodman; and Stu “Cobb” Cobbler, all of whom were with Susan and Carrie on the boat the night Susan disappeared. Meanwhile, while driving home from the reunion, Weevil stops to help a driver being harassed by bikers, only to be shot by the driver, a nervous Celeste Kane. The sheriff’s department plants a gun so that Celeste can claim self-defense, and Keith agrees to prove Weevil’s innocence. Veronica then regretfully makes some decisions that threaten her and Piz’s relationship.

Veronica concludes that those on Susan’s boat nine years ago covered up the circumstances of her death and that someone killed Carrie because she threatened to confess. Compromising videos of Carrie are posted online, and Veronica traces them back to Vinnie Van Lowe, who has been planting spyware on celebrities and selling the footage. Veronica uses Vinnie’s footage to prove Gia lured Logan out to Carrie’s home the night of her murder, suggesting that she and Luke killed Carrie and framed Logan. Lamb ignores her evidence and refuses to follow up, but unbeknownst to him Veronica records the conversation. Having stayed in Neptune longer than planned, Veronica calls Piz in New York to explain that she cannot return yet, and Piz breaks off their relationship. Truman-Mann rescinds their job offer, which results in an argument between Keith and Veronica about what she’s doing with her life.

Keith has a clandestine meeting with Deputy Sacks about Weevil’s case, but they are attacked by an unknown driver in a truck who slams into Sacks’ car, killing him and leaving Keith in critical condition. Veronica and Logan sleep together, reaffirming their relationship. Veronica sends bugged flowers to Gia’s apartment and calls her, playing recordings of Carrie’s voice, hoping to scare Gia into confessing to being the mastermind behind Carrie’s death. Gia panics and calls Cobb, revealing his involvement. Veronica goes to Gia’s apartment to confront her, where Gia reveals that Cobb is the mastermind of Carrie’s death and framing Logan: Susan overdosed, and he took photos of a panicked Carrie, Gia, and Luke dumping Susan’s body and has been blackmailing them. Veronica’s bug broadcasts everything via a radio frequency which she believed to be unused but is actually that of a local radio station. Cobb hears their conversation over the radio from his apartment in the building opposite, then shoots and kills Gia through the window before coming after Veronica. She calls the police and lures Cobb to the basement before beating him unconscious with a golf club.

Logan returns to active duty in the Navy but promises to come back to Veronica. Cobb’s photo and the secret recording of Lamb refusing to investigate Veronica’s claims leak online, forcing Lamb to arrest Cobb, with calls to oust Lamb from office. Keith and Weevil recover from their injuries, but Weevil returns to the criminal lifestyle. Veronica takes over her father’s private investigator business with Mac as her assistant, resolved to help fight Neptune’s corruption.

Cast

Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars
Jason Dohring as Logan Echolls
Krysten Ritter as Gia Goodman
Ryan Hansen as Dick Casablancas
Francis Capra as Eli “Weevil” Navarro
Percy Daggs III as Wallace Fennel
Chris Lowell as Stosh “Piz” Piznarski
Tina Majorino as Cindy “Mac” Mackenzie
Enrico Colantoni as Keith Mars
Gaby Hoffmann as Ruby Jetson
Jerry O’Connell as Sheriff Dan Lamb, brother of the late Sheriff Don Lamb from the series.
Brandon Hillock as Deputy Jerry Sacks
Martin Starr as Stu “Cobb” Cobbler
Ken Marino as Vinnie Van Lowe
Max Greenfield as Leo D’Amato
Amanda Noret as Madison Sinclair
Daran Norris as Cliff McCormack
Andrea Estella as Bonnie DeVille/Carrie Bishop, replacing Leighton Meester in the role.
Sam Huntington as Luke Haldeman
Duane Daniels as Principal Van Clemmons
Jonathan Chesner as Corny
Jessica Camacho as Martina Vasquez
Kevin Sheridan as Sean Friedrich
Lisa Thornhill as Celeste Kane
Christine Lakin as Susan Knight
Jamie Lee Curtis as Gayle Buckley
Cameo appearances
Ryan Lane as Slick Fellow Applicant
Ira Glass as himself
Harvey Levin as himself
Justin Long as Drunken Wingman
Kyle Bornheimer as Heliskier
Dax Shepard as Overconfident Club Boy
James Franco as himself
Eden Sher as Penny
Dave “Gruber” Allen as 60 Year-Old Rocker
Alejandro Escovedo as a busker.
Eddie Jemison as JC Borden