Upcoming Veronica Mars Revival [Hulu]

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Veronica Mars Revival at Hulu Confirmed by Kristen Bell!

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Source: ComingSoon
The Veronica Mars revival has gotten a direct-to-series order for 8 one-hour episodes from Warner Bros. Television. As part of the deal, Hulu has also struck an agreement with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution for SVOD rights to all past episodes of the original Veronica Mars. Fans can stream seasons 1-3, as well as the 2014 feature film, beginning in summer 2019.
 
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When we first glimpse Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) in the upcoming, eight-episode revival of the critically adored UPN/The CW series that bears her name, it seems like she might be in a good place. The crafty PI is banking a fat check for Mars Investigations, which she now runs with Best-Dad-Ever Keith (Enrico Colantoni), and is lustily welcoming back her hunky boyfriend, Logan Echolls (Jason Dohring). But the lightest scratch of the surface reveals her financial struggles with the former and the emotional cracks with the latter. And then someone starts killing spring breakers in her sunny-but-sinister seaside hometown, and you’re reminded that Neptune, Calif., can indeed be a bad place.

No one is happier to be back in the land of stark income inequality and shockingly high murder rates than Bell, her costars, and creator Rob Thomas, who have been plotting a return since 2014’s Kickstartered Veronica Marsmovie. “Every time Kristen and I talked about the possibility of doing it, this was the format that we wanted to do—a miniseries with one big detective case that was creatively exciting to both of us,” says Thomas, whose The CW series iZombie signs off after its current season.

When the series returns July 26, longtime fans (a.k.a. Marshmallows) will note that recurring themes from the original three-season run from 2004-2007 remain intact and, sadly, fresh. “[Rob] originally wrote about the haves and the have-nots,” Bell says of Neptune’s class warfare. “None of us could have anticipated it would be almost more appropriate, more topical, more necessary now, to discuss the gap between the two.” (Hulu will make the first three seasons and the film available in the run-up to the new episodes.)

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(Daran Norris returning as attorney Cliff McCormack visiting new cast member Patton Oswalt, who plays a pizza delivery man, in the hospital.)

There are many familiar faces in Neptune—including Veronica’s BFF Wallace (Percy Daggs III), frenemy Dick Casablancas (Ryan Hansen), and lovable ambulance-chasing attorney Cliff McCormack (Daran Norris)—as well as new folks like a quirky pizza delivery guy (Patton Oswalt) and a badass local bar owner (Kirby Howell-Baptiste, or “Simone” to fans of The Good Place), who figure into the season’s central mystery. And if you ship “LoVe” (Logan and Veronica), Dohring promises you’re in for a ride. “They are grown up and they do have more interesting relationship issues,” he says. “We can show their intimate lives a little bit more.”

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(“LoVe” on a couch.)

But the real lovefest is behind the camera. “The reality is we know these characters, these characters love each other, we as human beings adored each other from the moment we met,” says Colantoni. “Over time, you just get more and more comfortable. Everything is better than it was five years ago, and twice as better as it was 15 years ago..”

via EW