At this time, Rob Thomas, who had been harvesting nothing year after year, remembered the two novel titles he sold to publishers a few years ago, which should have become his next two novels, one called "Seattle and Back". Tell the story of a growing band; and the other has no name but can only be called "the story of an unnamed young detective of Rob Thomas". The story tells the story of a boy who was rejected by his classmates because the police chief’s father messed up a case. The boy will start to help his father’s private detective. He named the boy Keith Mars. This idea came from his early career as a teacher, and in the subsequent TV production work, he would often think of the story of this young detective and modify the protagonist to be a woman, and Keith became a father. Now he wants to make it into a teen drama.
This is not a good idea. TV stations always follow the trend to produce popular dramas. After ER, everyone does emergency dramas, after CSI everyone does crime dramas, and after Lost everyone becomes an "out of box without police, doctors, and lawyers." "drama. At that time, even Rob Thomas's favorite teen drama was going downhill. He contacted several TV networks including WB, but they were not interested. So he decided to write it anyway. As a professional writer, he has never written without pay. This makes him excited because he can create according to his own ideas, regardless of the opinions of any TV station. . And if there are TV stations involved, they will never allow Veronica to be raped, nor will they allow Veronica to put a cigarette in the Logan cabinet, nor will they allow Veronica to steal evidence.
Rob Thomas realized that it was difficult for him to sell this story to public television. The story was too dark and the characters were too edgy. He intends to persuade cable TVs like FX or HBO to give it a chance. At this time, he had an informal meeting with UPN's top executives. This kind of meeting was generally useless, but this time, Maggie Murphy, the head of UPN's drama department, told him that they wanted to engage in a play with a young girl. So the girl detective's script was handed over to Maggie, and on Monday two days later, Maggie Murphy bought the script. In the later production of the pilot episode, UPN hardly made any comments on the script.
Subsequently, Rob Thomas began to select actors. Regular actors are hot in competition, and almost all the best actors are among them. There were 500 people who came to try the lead role of Veronica Mars, and many of them performed well. However, the 23-year-old Kristen Bell stood out. Although she thought it was due to her luck, Rob Thomas said that he could not think of anyone more suitable for Veronica's actor than Kristen. . But things can't be finalized. Producers such as Rob Thomas are only responsible for the preliminary test, and the top ones selected by them will participate in the next round of auditions for the TV station. At this time, a high-level executive thought that Kristen' might be more suitable for the role of a good friend (lily) than the protagonist. 'So they began to persuade the TV station to use Kristen Bell as the protagonist. If there is any difference, the scene will not exist.
In addition to Kristen Bell, 22-year-old Jason Dohring and Teddy Dunn also came for the interview. Jason Dohring's interview role is Veronica's Romeo-style ex-boyfriend Duncan Cane, and Teddy Dunn's interview role is Duncan's jackass friend Logan Echolls. Jason's interview was not satisfactory, and the producer told him that his performance was a bit excessive.' It's dark, That's not really right. The producer asked him to re-read the line of the character logan, and performed a scene where logan smashed Veronica's car lights in the pilot episode. Jason later said that he was holding the script and waving it as a sled in the play, and the producers in the audience were all inexplicable, with an expression of'what the hell is this kid doing'. In both rounds of auditions, Jason played against Kristen, and at the time, he acted in the background of Logan's fandom and Veronica. In the end, Jason and Teddy both got the role, but Teddy Dunn will play the Prince Charming Duncan Kane, and Jason will play the campus king Logan Echolls. At that time, Logan Echolls was just a guest role in the pilot episode, and it is not certain whether he will appear again later.
At the same time, Percy Daggs III, who played the role of Veronica's good friend Wallace, was also confirmed after many interviews, and the tacit understanding cultivated with Kristen Bell during the audition was used in subsequent performances. The audition of Amanda Seyfried, who played Lily Kane, was undoubtedly the biggest surprise of the year for Rob Thomas. Because Lily Kane, as a murder victim in the play, can only appear occasionally as a'Dead girl', the average quality of the audition is mediocre, and Amanda won with a'nearly a hundredfold' advantage.
The pilot episode then entered production, Rob Thomas had to make countless life-and-death decisions every day, and every mistake could completely ruin the show. After the production was completed, UPN again had doubts about the story line of Veronica's rape, but it was eventually retained, because after all this reason was lost, all of Veronica's motives became vague and lacking meaning.
After the pilot episode was produced, Rob Thomas took his girlfriend to travel from Athens to Istanbul. On the day he arrived in Athens, he proposed to his girlfriend to marry him, so when he left Istanbul, he was already sitting next to his fiancée. They will fly directly to New York to participate in the announcement of UPN's autumn program. He told his fiancée that Veronica Mars is his most successful work. If he does not succeed this time, he will abandon his TV career and return to Texas.
Every year, the drama department of the US TV station will get more than 100 episodes of ideas, of which 40 can be written as scripts, 10 out of 40 can be made into pilot episodes, and 3 out of 10 can be selected as episodes. , One of the three can get the second quarter. Veronica Mars filmed for three quarters, which is an out-and-out miracle for the playwright.
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