Breaking news!  (By way of EW’s Michael Ausiello - seriously, can I have this guy’s job?  I’d be totally awesome at it!)

Series creator Rob Thomas has been chatting with Miss Mars herself, Kristen Bell, about the possibility of bringing the canceled show to the big screen.  It seems like there has only been a little bit of chatter about it, and Thomas is working on two other shows at the moment.  It’s probably not worthy of super-intense speculation at this point, because I’m sure anytime a TV show has been canceled, every show-runner and star have at least entertained and talked a little bit about the possibility of a movie.  Still, it’s good to know that they’re considering it and would both be enthusiastic about the project and don’t have that “I’m over it, we told the story we needed to tell, I want to move on with other things and not be remembered for just one show despite the fact that it was awesome” mentality.

The show definitely worked well in the format of a TV show, playing with a few long running mysteries that take a full year for Veronica to work through while new easier cases pop up weekly.  I would guess that in a single two-hour movie there would be a larger focus on one overarching conspiracy, but I’m confident that the writers would make it work.

P.S. I do realize that it may be weird for me to be jonesing for more VM when I still have another season of the show to go through, but I just can’t help it.  I’m just that sure that when we finish season three (whenever that may be), I’ll still want more Veronica, Keith, Logan, and Wallace.

And while we’re on the subject of canceled shows becoming movies, what’s up with the Arrested Development movie?  Everyone in the cast has said they’d sign up for it, and I think the latest was that series creator Mitchell Hurwitz was working on a script. That would also be a damn safe bet to be an amazing movie. (Remember when George Michael and Maeby were on an episode of Veronica Mars?  That was awesome.)