‘Veronica Mars’ Movie’s Kickstarter Success Could Change Everything

Early on Wednesday morning, “Veronica Mars” creator Rob Thomas realized that when he started a Kickstarter campaign for a movie version of his cult TV hit that he may have just transformed the definition of what is possible in the entertainment landscape. Thomas asked fans to donate a staggering $2 million dollars – the highest movie total ever set on the platform – so he could shoot a Veronica Mars movie this summer, set to be released in early 2014. In less than five hours it hurdled the $1 million mark, and was completely funded about ten hours after the campaign began. So what could this mean for the film industry? “Veronica Mars” was a small scale, cleverly-written and extremely well-acted detective noir television show that ran for three years on The WB (and subsequently The CW) before it was cancelled, and Thomas and his star Kristen Bell have been attempting to get a feature film version made every since it …