Uh oh. Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas got everyone's hopes up back in February, when he said he was about to pitch a movie based on his cult classic teen sleuth series. And while he did the pitch, and producer Joel Silver apparently liked it, Thomas told the NY Post that the movie still probably won't be happening.

""While the pitch [to producer Joel Silver] went well and I don't think the movie's dead, right now it's looking depressing. I think honestly if we would have had the pitch ready a year earlier, it would be a go project. The hope that we would get a quick greenlight didn't materialize. This is the least optimistic I've felt in a while."

Given that Thomas has been almost relentlessly positive about the fate of this movie, this is definitely a bad sign. So bad, in fact, that he told the Post was his plans for the movie are-- speaking about it in past tense. "If we were going to do a movie, I would want to put Wallace and Logan and Mac and Weevil in it. We would have picked up just prior to Veronica's graduation, it would have been the college years."

Now the last thing Rob Thomas wants anyone to do is to give up hope. But this is definitely not a good sign for a movie that seemed like a longshot to begin with.