{"id":27864,"date":"2013-04-22T19:32:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T23:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=27864"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:26:21","slug":"thomas-recruits-veronica-mars-writer-diane-ruggiero-to-co-author-movie-screenplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/22\/thomas-recruits-veronica-mars-writer-diane-ruggiero-to-co-author-movie-screenplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Recruits &#8216;Veronica Mars&#8217; Writer Diane Ruggiero To Co-Author Movie Screenplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kristen-bell-veronica-mars.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27865\" alt=\"kristen-bell-veronica-mars\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kristen-bell-veronica-mars-300x224.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>As Rob Thomas moves to bring his television series<em> Veronica Mars<\/em> to the big screen following his successful Kickstarter campaign to get the project funded, he has tuned to one of his former staff writers to help write its screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas has told HitFix that his underestimation of the workload involved with running the Kickstarter campaign that led him to call in some help.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had the outline and the first act of the movie written when we launched Kickstarter. I had no idea the craziness that would ensue once we launched. I was under the naive impression that I&#8217;d be able to handle knocking out the script while handling the sundry demands of running the fundraising &#8212; the press, questions about T-shirt artwork, etc. The day we launched we received 20,000 emails. The press requests and questions that arose about the specifics of the campaign was almost a full time job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For Thomas, Ruggerio was the only phone call he could make for assistance, noting that she wrote what he considers to be the series &#8220;high-water mark,&#8221; the first season episode &#8220;A Trip To The Dentist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She was really my right hand writing the series. and it felt good to have someone who knew the voices as well as I did. We were both in a comfort zone, both writing this show and writing with each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With a projected start of filming set for this summer, I can see where Thomas is starting to feel the pressure to bring it all together. And if that means that he brings in his right-hand woman from the series then I don&#8217;t think fans have any reason to be worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A reunion behind the cameras.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/22\/thomas-recruits-veronica-mars-writer-diane-ruggiero-to-co-author-movie-screenplay\/\" title=\"Thomas Recruits &#8216;Veronica Mars&#8217; Writer Diane Ruggiero To Co-Author Movie Screenplay\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1313],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-veronica-mars"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27864"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=27864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}