There are few things that bring us as much joy as Veronica Mars news, so the Dose.ca offices are filled with confetti and limbo contests today as Rob Thomas – the Veronica Mars creator, not the Matchbox 20 frontman - revealed that he is working on a script for a film adaptation of his brilliant television series.

Thomas has been dancing around the idea since the show's untimely demise in 2007, but once ABC decided to resurrect another one of his old TV shows, Cupid, it looked like the Veronica Mars movie was little more than a distant dream. Lucky for us, ABC then reduced Cupid's episode order from 13 episodes to eight.

"That means I have time to write the Veronica Mars movie," Thomas told iF Magazine last week. "But my writing the movie is half the battle. Someone else has to pay for it. [Producer] Joel Silver does have a certain pile of money. He called on me saying 'Can we do this now?' Kristen [Bell] wants to do it. Joel wants to do it and I want to do it. For me, that’s the next project."

Veronica Mars – starring Bell as a smart, wise-cracking teenage detective who solves murders in her spare time – premiered to rave reviews in 2004 but never earned great ratings. The show managed to survive until the end of its third season, when the CW gave it the axe, breaking the hearts of the die-hard Veronica Mars fan base.

Thomas is currently in talks with old Veronica Mars cast mates Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni and (natch) Kristen Bell about reprising their roles in the movie, and as far as the plot goes, he also revealed that he has the story "70 per cent" figured out. Despite the ten-minute "Veronica joins the FBI" pilot he and the rest of the crew made near the end of Season 3, the film will probably eschew that idea and, instead, open a few days before Veronica's college graduation. Will she solve the mystery of – dun dun DUNNN – who stole her graduation cap?!

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