Post by marie on Feb 5, 2009 1:22:29 GMT -5
* The lead character was originally going to be in a novel written by show creator, Rob Thomas.
* The theme song is "We Used to be Friends" by the The Dandy Warhols.
* In the original project notes and the original pilot script for the show, there were some name changes. Lilly's name was Samantha, Lianne Mars's was Rebecca, then Abbie, Wallace's last name was Collier, Logan's last name was Hewitt and the Kanes' last name was Cain, then Caine.
* The character of Meg was created specifically for Alona Tal. She auditioned for Veronica, and was Rob Thomas's second choice for the role. He liked her so much he made a recurring role for her.
* Amanda Seyfried initially auditioned for the role of Veronica Mars.
* UPN, the network that airs Veronica Mars, were concerned during early episodes that viewers would confuse Teddy Dunn and Jason Dohring, who play Duncan and Logan, respectively. A color code was created where Dunn wore blues, and Dohring wore earth tones (greens, browns, etc). The color code still stands today.
* The only two actresses considered for the role of Kendall Casablancas were Heather Graham and Charisma Carpenter. Graham was working on "Emily's Reasons Why Not" (2006), and Carpenter was an actual fan of "Veronica Mars", so she ended up being cast in the role.
* Jason Dohring initially auditioned for the role of Duncan while 'Teddy Dunn' initially auditioned for the role of Logan.
* The car that Veronica drives for seasons one and two is a convertible Chrysler LeBaron. In season three, she drives a silver Saturn VUE.
* Concepts included in the original project notes for the show that were later dropped include Veronica being 13 when Lilly was murdered, Keith being fired because of evidence disappearing from the police station, with hints that Don Lamb was behind it, Strom Jenkins, a character who called in the Abel Koontz tip, and Veronica finding that Strom Jenkins, Don Lamb, and Jake Kane were part of a larger conspiracy to cover up Lilly's death.
* Logan drives a yellow Nissan XTerra S for seasons one and two. He drives a black Range Rover for season three.
* After the second season, the show was picked up by The CW because UPN merged with The WB to form The CW.
* In an attempt to keep the struggling show on the air after its third season, creator Rob Thomas filmed an extended pitch for the fourth season that advances the show's timeline considerably. Instead of being a college undergraduate, as she was at the end of season three, in the spec season four, Veronica has graduated from college and the FBI Academy and is starting her first day as a FBI agent. The pitch contained a whole new cast of heretofore unseen characters, and, except for Veronica herself, none of the characters from the show's previous seasons. The CW failed to pick up this new version of "Veronica Mars," and the show was canceled.
* The character Piz in season three is named after the director of the pilot episode of Veronica Mars, Mark Piznarski.
* Amanda Noret, the actress who plays Madison Sinclair, has a real-life cousin named Shelly Pomroy, which is also the name of the character at whose party Veronica is drugged.
* Both Sam Huntington (Luke) and Aaron Ashmore (Troy) went on to play the character "Jimmy Olsen" in different adaptations of the Superman comics. Huntington portrayed Olsen in the feature film Superman Returns (2006) while Ashmore took over the role of Olsen on the small screen in "Smallville" (2001).
* Rob Thomas, the creator of "Veronica Mars," says on the season 3 DVD extras that Ryan Hansen's character thingy Casablancas was not originally meant to be a series regular. He was first cast for the second episode, as a nameless, rich Neptune resident with one line ("Logan!"). Thomas said that they read many young actors for the line, and when it came down to a choice between Hansen or another actor, they cast Hansen purely because he had "good hair."
>>> WARNING: Here Be Spoilers <<<
* SPOILER: Originally, according to creator Rob Thomas, Veronica and Duncan were going to be related. After it got picked up by UPN, a network channel, and not by HBO, Showtime, or FX, they decided not to push it into ""Twin Peaks" (1990) territory".
* The theme song is "We Used to be Friends" by the The Dandy Warhols.
* In the original project notes and the original pilot script for the show, there were some name changes. Lilly's name was Samantha, Lianne Mars's was Rebecca, then Abbie, Wallace's last name was Collier, Logan's last name was Hewitt and the Kanes' last name was Cain, then Caine.
* The character of Meg was created specifically for Alona Tal. She auditioned for Veronica, and was Rob Thomas's second choice for the role. He liked her so much he made a recurring role for her.
* Amanda Seyfried initially auditioned for the role of Veronica Mars.
* UPN, the network that airs Veronica Mars, were concerned during early episodes that viewers would confuse Teddy Dunn and Jason Dohring, who play Duncan and Logan, respectively. A color code was created where Dunn wore blues, and Dohring wore earth tones (greens, browns, etc). The color code still stands today.
* The only two actresses considered for the role of Kendall Casablancas were Heather Graham and Charisma Carpenter. Graham was working on "Emily's Reasons Why Not" (2006), and Carpenter was an actual fan of "Veronica Mars", so she ended up being cast in the role.
* Jason Dohring initially auditioned for the role of Duncan while 'Teddy Dunn' initially auditioned for the role of Logan.
* The car that Veronica drives for seasons one and two is a convertible Chrysler LeBaron. In season three, she drives a silver Saturn VUE.
* Concepts included in the original project notes for the show that were later dropped include Veronica being 13 when Lilly was murdered, Keith being fired because of evidence disappearing from the police station, with hints that Don Lamb was behind it, Strom Jenkins, a character who called in the Abel Koontz tip, and Veronica finding that Strom Jenkins, Don Lamb, and Jake Kane were part of a larger conspiracy to cover up Lilly's death.
* Logan drives a yellow Nissan XTerra S for seasons one and two. He drives a black Range Rover for season three.
* After the second season, the show was picked up by The CW because UPN merged with The WB to form The CW.
* In an attempt to keep the struggling show on the air after its third season, creator Rob Thomas filmed an extended pitch for the fourth season that advances the show's timeline considerably. Instead of being a college undergraduate, as she was at the end of season three, in the spec season four, Veronica has graduated from college and the FBI Academy and is starting her first day as a FBI agent. The pitch contained a whole new cast of heretofore unseen characters, and, except for Veronica herself, none of the characters from the show's previous seasons. The CW failed to pick up this new version of "Veronica Mars," and the show was canceled.
* The character Piz in season three is named after the director of the pilot episode of Veronica Mars, Mark Piznarski.
* Amanda Noret, the actress who plays Madison Sinclair, has a real-life cousin named Shelly Pomroy, which is also the name of the character at whose party Veronica is drugged.
* Both Sam Huntington (Luke) and Aaron Ashmore (Troy) went on to play the character "Jimmy Olsen" in different adaptations of the Superman comics. Huntington portrayed Olsen in the feature film Superman Returns (2006) while Ashmore took over the role of Olsen on the small screen in "Smallville" (2001).
* Rob Thomas, the creator of "Veronica Mars," says on the season 3 DVD extras that Ryan Hansen's character thingy Casablancas was not originally meant to be a series regular. He was first cast for the second episode, as a nameless, rich Neptune resident with one line ("Logan!"). Thomas said that they read many young actors for the line, and when it came down to a choice between Hansen or another actor, they cast Hansen purely because he had "good hair."
>>> WARNING: Here Be Spoilers <<<
* SPOILER: Originally, according to creator Rob Thomas, Veronica and Duncan were going to be related. After it got picked up by UPN, a network channel, and not by HBO, Showtime, or FX, they decided not to push it into ""Twin Peaks" (1990) territory".