Few films are closer to my heart than the two Bill and Ted movies, I’ve said as much in one of my first posts on HeyUGuys and I can almost recall the script to Excellent Adventure should the need arise.
When we spoke to Keanu Reeves earlier in the year when the actor was promoting Henry’s Crime we did talk about his future projects and the rumours surrounding a third Bill and Ted film have been flying around for a while, and today brings a small amount of clarification to the status of the project.
Speaking to MTV Reeves revealed that the writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson were close to completing the script, six weeks away to be precise, and then I guess Messrs Reeves and Winter will get their hands on it and a decision will be made. The ending of Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey had our heroes begin their journey to save the world through their music and by being excellent to each other, what is being talked up now is that we would return to the two, now nearing their fifties, to see how far they have (or have not) lived up to the prophecies of George Carlin’s Rufus.
Here’s a snippet of what Reeves had to say,
When we last got together, part of it was that Bill and Ted were supposed to have written the song that saved the world, and it hasn’t happened…So they’ve now become kind of possessed by trying to do that. Then there’s an element of time and they have to go back,
Like the proposed third Ghostbusters film the notion of returning to characters instead of remaking or rebooting them is something Hollywood is coming around to, Oliver Stone did it recently with Gordon Gekko and Spielberg had Harrison Ford dust off his fedora, and there is a nostalgia and innocence to the Bill and Ted films that would mark it out in today’s self referntial Mobius strip of ideas and imagery.
Whether it’s a rock and roll roadtrip or a return to the high school based slackerdemia so endearing in the first film we don’t know. I’m hoping in six weeks time the delivery of the script kicks the project into motion – the world needs Bill and Ted.
Here’s the video,
And if you’re new to the world of San Dimas – here’s something to help you out.
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