Many had been launched to Kristen Bell from Veronica Mars, the thriller drama that aired from 2004 to 2007. However the actress wasn’t executed with taking part in the title crime solver, as she and a number of other of her co-stars returned for the theatrical movie continuation launched in 2014, adopted by the Hulu subscription-exclusive Season 4 in 2019. Sadly, Veronica Mars Season 5 by no means ended up occurring, and once I requested Enrico Colantoni, who performed Veronica’s father Keith, about this, he shared an important reply with me about what creator Rob Thomas had needed to take this saga subsequent.
Along with speaking about his visitor look on Fits LA and why he considers Galaxy Quest to be a “badge of honor,” Colantoni opened up about Veronica Mars once I requested him if he was content material with the place the present ended or if he would have favored to return for Season 5. He answered:
I am such a fan of Rob Thomas’, and I do know what he needed to do. I wish to see him fulfill that imaginative and prescient. He all the time needed to return to Veronica being on her personal and being the outlier and never being hooked up to something. So we had been hoping that after that one season on Hulu, we might have explored what that regarded like, however I am afraid that killing off a really beloved character may need shot ourselves within the foot. I’d love to return and see the place his thoughts actually needed to finish and are available to fruition for him, however I do not assume he bought that.
Although it’s been half a decade since Veronica Mars Season 4 hit Hulu, I’ll be courteous and put a SPOILER WARNING to be protected.
Logan Echolls is the character Enrico Colantoni is referring to, whom Jason Dohring performed as a essential solid member throughout the whole lot of the present and the film. Colantoni and Kristen Bell had been the one different actors who shared that distinction, however by the point Veronica Mars Season 4 was over, Logan was no extra. Instantly after he and Veronica had been married and on the point of go away for his or her honeymoon, Logan was blown up by a automobile bomb left by Patton Oswalt’s Penn Epner, who was the copycat Neptune Bomber.
It was a daring transfer for Rob Thomas to kill off Logan, however as Colantoni knowledgeable me, it was all a part of the inventive imaginative and prescient he supposed to discover in a fifth season. Season 4 ended with Veronica leaving Neptune to resolve instances whereas driving throughout the US. That premise jogs my memory of of the Natasha Lyonne-led sequence Poker Face (which will be streamed with a Peacock subscription), and it might have been fascinating to how see the sequence would have delving into this format.
Alas, as Enrico Colantoni mused, Thomas selecting to kill Logan may need gone a bit too far and turned Hulu off from greenlighting Season 5. Granted, contemplating that Veronica Mars was revived twice following its preliminary cancellation, perhaps there’ll come a time when Hulu decides to present it one other shot or it finds a brand new residence on a special platform. For now, Colantoni is conserving busy starring in English Trainer, which airs on FX and can be streamed on Hulu.