Veronica Mars (film)
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| German title | Veronica Mars |
| Original title | Veronica Mars |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Rob Thomas |
| script | Rob Thomas |
| production | Rob Thomas, Dan Etheridge , Danielle Stokdyk |
| music | Josh Kramon |
| camera | Ben Kutchins |
| cut | Daniel Gabbe |
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Veronica Mars is an American feature film from 2014. It is based on the television series of the same name from 2004 to 2007. It was directed by Rob Thomas , who also wrote the script and co-produced the film. The eponymous main character is again played by Kristen Bell . The premiere took place on March 8, 2014 at the South by Southwest festival and was shown in American cinemas on March 14, 2014. The film opened in Germany on March 13, 2014.
action
Nine years have passed since former teenage detective Veronica Mars left her hometown of Neptune, California and moved to New York City . There she leads a normal life with her boyfriend Stosh "Piz" Piznarski and is about to get a job at the renowned law firm Truman-Mann under the leadership of Gayle Buckley. Shortly thereafter, she receives a call from her ex-boyfriend Logan Echolls, who is now in the Navy, and asks her for help. Logan is charged with the murder of his girlfriend Carrie Bishop, a former Neptune high school student and pop star who goes by the stage name Bonnie DeVille . Believing in his innocence, Veronica returns to Neptune to help Logan find the right lawyers. She also meets her father Keith Mars, former sheriff and now private investigator in Neptune, who shows her that the city has been ravaged by corruption.
Although Veronica only wanted to stay briefly in Neptune and she got the job in the law firm, she begins to investigate the murder of Carrie Bishop. Her trail leads her to the ten-year class reunion of her year. There she meets her old friends Wallace Fennell and Cindy "Mac" MacKenzie, as well as the former biker Eli "Weevil" Navarro, who is now a family man. During the event, Veronica realizes that Carrie's murder had to do with events nine years ago. At that time Carrie was with her friend Susan Knight as well as Dick Casablancas, Luke Haldeman and his fiancés Gia Goodman and Stu "Cobb" Schuster on a boat from which Susan disappeared without a trace. After Veronica's enemy Madison Sinclair plays a copy of her college sex tape with Piz, a fight breaks out and the reunion comes to an abrupt end. Veronica then goes to an after party and talks to Dick, Luke, Gia and Stu about what happened on the boat. Meanwhile, Weevil drives home and sees a biker group attack Celeste Kane. When he tries to rush to her help, he is shot by her. He is later arrested for possession of weapons. Keith then decides to end corruption in the city.
Veronica decides that Carrie has been killed so she couldn't comment on Susan's disappearance. When Carrie's compromising videos hit the internet, her trail leads to Vinnie Van Lowe. He provided spyware to all tablet PCs that stars like Carrie received as a gift at the MTV Music Awards. This leads Veronica to track down Gia and Luke, who lured Logan to the scene the night Carrie died. With the evidence, Veronica and Logan go to Sheriff Dan Lamb, who ignores the evidence and continues to present Logan as the perpetrator. Little does the sheriff know that Veronica is recording the call. Later she calls her friend Piz to explain that she has to stay in Neptune longer. Piz is disappointed and ends the relationship with her. In addition, her job at Truman-Mann is withdrawn, which leads to an argument between her and Keith. After talking to his daughter, Keith has a secret meeting with Deputy Jerry Sacks, who is ready to testify against the corrupt police officers. However, the two are hit by a car. Keith is badly injured while Sacks dies. After these events, Veronica and Logan get closer again and the two sleep together.
The next day the two set about convicting Gia and Luke. Veronica sends Gia flowers with a bug in there. She also calls Gia in Carrie's voice. Gia panics and calls her accomplice. This is not Luke, but Cobb. Veronica then pays Gia a visit and confronts her. Gia admits that Susan died of a drug overdose and that she, Carrie, and Luke tossed the body overboard. They were photographed by Cobb and then blackmailed with the pictures. Carrie couldn't live with that anymore and wanted to confess everything. With Gia's help, Cobb got into Carrie's apartment, killed her, and knocked Logan down to suspect him. Since Veronica uses an old listening device that runs on the same frequency as a local radio station, Cobb overhears everything from the apartment across from Gia. He shoots Gia through the window and tries to kill Veronica too. She calls the police and manages to knock Cobb down with a golf club.
After the murder is solved, Logan returns to active duty in the Navy, but promises to return to Veronica. After the recording was published, Sheriff Lamb was publicly criticized and had to arrest Cobb. Keith is slowly recovering, and Veronica decides to stay in Neptune to fight corruption in the city.
Cast and dubbing
The German synchronization produced the synchronous company Interopa Film GmbH in Berlin under the dialogue director of Stefan Fredrich on.
backgrounds
Production development
After the television series Veronica Mars was canceled in 2007, Rob Thomas wrote a script to continue the story as a feature film, but the producing film studio Warner Bros. was not interested in funding the project. A few years passed, but in March 2013 Thomas and leading actress Kristen Bell announced that a Veronica Mars film was being planned. The film is to be financed through the Internet platform Kickstarter.com . Within a day the target of 2 million US dollars was exceeded and thus set some records. The campaign broke the one- and two-million-dollar barrier faster than any other and also had the most supporters (91,585 in total). Veronica Mars is thus the largest ever realized film project that has been financed through crowdfunding. By the end of the Kickstarter campaign on April 13, 2013, the project had raised $ 5.7 million. After the campaign was successful, Warner Bros. joined the project and increased the budget to 6 million US dollars.
In April, series creator Rob Thomas finished the script and took over the position of director. In the same month Jason Dohring signed for the film and slipped back into the role of Logan Echoll . Even Enrico Colantoni , Percy Daggs III , Chris Lowell , Francis Capra , Sam Huntington , Amanda Noret , Daran Norris and Tina Majorino announced their return to feature film and will be shown again in their series roles. On July 14, 2013, Rob Thomas announced that Leighton Meester would not be returning to her role as Carrie Bishop due to scheduling conflicts . Her role was taken over by the musician Andrea Estella . Jerry O'Connell , Christiann Castallenos and Eden Sher joined the cast .
Filming
The film was shot on 23 days between June 17 and July 23, 2013 in Los Angeles . Other locations were Santa Monica Pier , Vincent Thomas Bridge , The Edison at the Higgins Building, the Los Angeles Arts District and Long Beach , California. After a test demonstration in October 2013, Warner Bros. decided to re-shoot some scenes in December 2013.
music
Josh Kramon, who also worked for the television series, wrote the music for the film. A soundtrack for the film was released on March 14, 2014 and contains the following track list:
- We Used to Be Friends - Alejandro Escovedo
- Go Captain and Pinlighter - Emperor X
- Holding My Breath - Twin Sister
- All Around and Away We Go - Twin Sister
- Criminal - ZZ Ward feat. Freddie Gibbs
- Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
- Stick Up - Max Schneider
- Never Give In - Mackintosh Brown
- Prosthetic Love - Typhoon
- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls
- Second Chances - Gregory Alan Isakov
- We Used to Be Friends - The Dandy Warhols
- Mug Shot (bonus track) - Max Schneider
marketing
The first scene images were shown on July 19, 2013 at the San Diego Comic-Con . The first trailer was released on January 2, 2014. After the cinema release, the first of two planned books appeared.
reception
Reviews
At Rotten Tomatoes , 78 percent of the reviewers gave the film a positive rating. Otherwise the film received mostly positive reviews.
James Berardinelli of Reelviews.net was delighted and said the film would be "a lovely fan service, an oversized TV reunion for the cinema". Sheri Linden judged that Rob Thomas gives the film "a lot of self-assurance", "especially with the bad guy roles." Linden criticized, however, that it has "no real quality".
Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times was critical of the film, saying that it came out "like a glorified TV series, with acceptable message and average acting and a not very innovative story such as has been seen a hundred times on television." . Even The Guardian judged rather critically, on the grounds that "this (r) Fan-funded revival of teen series (...) it is not a real film" creates.
Grossing results
On the opening weekend, the film grossed just under $ 1.98 million in US cinemas. With a budget of $ 6 million, the worldwide box office revenue of theatrical release is $ 3.49 million. In the US, the film grossed 3.32 million.
The film was seen by 7,282 visitors in Germany and generated sales of 58,235 euros.
Web links
- Veronica Mars in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Veronica Mars atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Official website for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Veronica Mars. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on July 30, 2014 .
- ↑ Jeff Jensen: 'Veronica Mars' movie: Kristen Bell says it's finally happening. In: EW.com. Inside TV, July 30, 2014, accessed July 30, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Veronika Mars: Kickstarter records without end . In: Filmstarts.de . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
- ^ The Veronica Mars Movie Project by Rob Thomas. In: kicktraq.com. Kicktraq, March 2013, accessed on July 30, 2014 .
- ↑ Josh L. Dickey: $ 2 million for 'Veronica Mars' Breaks Kickstarter Records, Gets Greenlight . In: Variety.com . March 13, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
- ↑ Mandi Bierly: Jason Dohring returns for 'Veronica Mars' movie . In: EntertainmentWeekly.com . April 3, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
- ↑ Kimberly Nordyke: Leighton Meester 'Unavailable' for 'Veronica Mars' Movie; Replaced by singer Andrea Estella . In: TheHollywoodReporter.com . July 14, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
- ↑ Richard Verrier: 'Veronica Mars' film wraps in LA, and fans get a lot of credit . In: LATimes.com . July 24, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
- ↑ Jeff Jensen: 'Veronica Mars' returns: Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell on reshoots and the future of the franchise . In: EntertainmentWeekly.com . February 13, 2014. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
- ↑ Veronica Mars (2014). Rotten Tomatoes , accessed July 30, 2014 .
- ↑ James Berardinelli: Veronica Mars. In: Reelviews.net. March 13, 2014, accessed July 30, 2014 .
- ↑ Sheri Linden: Veronica Mars: SXSW Review. In: HollywoodReporter.com. March 9, 2014, accessed July 30, 2014 .
- ^ Richard Roeper: 'Veronica Mars': Not quite ready for the big screen. (No longer available online.) In: ChicagoSunTimes.com. March 13, 2014, archived from the original on August 8, 2014 ; Retrieved July 30, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mike McCahill: Veronica Mars review - 'More footnote than fresh start'. In: TheGuardian.com. March 13, 2014, accessed July 30, 2014 .
- ↑ Veronica Mars . In: BoxOfficeMojo.com . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
- ^ Veronica Mars - Visitor numbers and sales (Germany) . In: Kino.de . Retrieved July 30, 2014.
