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Keanu Says BILL & TED 3 Is Being Written...Sorta...
Merrick here...
The great Alex Winter recently indicated to me (via my Twitter stream) that all the recent talk of a third BILL & TED movie was "nothing more than a lark for now" - which is true, but that fact doesn't seem to stop the notion from inching tentatively, albeit minutely, forward.
Keanu Reeves sat down with MTV for a discussion which turned to another BILL & TED picture. Echoing Winters' recent comments (HERE), Reeves alludes that he Alex, and Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon (the writers of the previous two films in the series) have been talking through ideas for a third installment, and reveals that Solomon and Matheson are developing a script for the proposed project. My understanding is (and it's important to remember) that this is happening (more or less) as an arrangement between the four partties involved, and is not necessarily related to the involvement of a studio or production entity.
"They're gonna try and see if they can write something. To me, I would love to play the role and I'd love to work with Alex and Chris and Ed again...
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And we'll see what they do..."
...says Keanu in the MTV chat, which you can see for yourself via the emebed below...
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I can't see this actually happening.
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Excellent.
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wait, a new sequel to a long-dead franchise? i can't believe it!
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Solid. Say what you will about his recent movies, acting skills, etc., but you can't deny that he's one upstanding muthafucka...
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BOGUS JOURNEY is one of those rare sequel that's truly better than the first.
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link the audio from the 1st 2 and his stand up. MAKE IT HAPPEN NEO!
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Can't Wait For Missy! I mean mom...
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it'll just be a montage of Carlin on Campus
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SHUT UP TED!
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...Keanu totally looks like he could still play that character.
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I shall now pray to the movie Gods to make this happen and not tottally suck.
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This needs to happen.
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I'm so in for a third one.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 11:06 a.m. CST
...I want Bill and Ted to step out of the phone booth...
by FlickaPoo
...and right into a blue lit TERMINATOR war of the machines, and be like...uh...<P> ...and just get back in and leave.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 11:07 a.m. CST
...speaking of which, Bill and Ted will have to go back...
by FlickaPoo
...in time just to FIND a goddamn phone booth.
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The beard, man, the beard...
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The first is classic, the second not bad, don't do a third.
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One album, touring issues, label dropped them, did not restructure society. Then a Benjamin-Button ancient Bill & Ted come back from the future (in a Delorean, in a nod to BTTF) to explain what went wrong, and why it's important to fix it) because in the new timeline, Biff Tannen is the dark overlord of an army of merciless machines). Or something like that.<br><br> Anyway, I think they need to work in a Delorean time machine.
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Although when it's full grown and scraggly, it's pretty odd looking, but his vibe that comes through still prevents it from being a pedo beard.
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Do it all Rocky Balboa. Just call it "Bill and Ted". Then have them debating subtitles for it, ala an Aintitcool talkback, all through the opening title sequence.
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Nice they might get Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon back again, those two can balance a good mix of scifi fantasy with comdedy, Evil Alien Conquerers, Mom and Dad Save the World and What Planet are You From? weren't flukes, those are underrated comedy gems. Hope they stay true to the mythology so far.
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The military could find the parts of the 'evil robot us's' and create a so called war of the machines making an alternate future.
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Bill & Ted in separate interviews, facing the camera the whole time
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Sept. 20, 2010, 11:29 a.m. CST
...perfect! Just let BILL & TED be the next TERMINATOR...
by FlickaPoo
...flick. Can't get any worse than the last one.
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NOT.
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no doubt about it
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I tihnk you're good enough for the part, and Spike isn't really that deep level a character, but you got the fight in you and if you tried your hardest we could get away with a decent Spike Spiegal. BUt in any case don't let the studio screw up that project. I expect to see you put on your shades, fly into the sky and go straight through Hollywood leaving chaos and destruction in your wake to kick some suits asses at the slightest hint that they're gonna ruin that project!
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Bogus Journey came out in '91.
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I know he's not a brilliant actor, but I love the dude, and c'mon, POINT BREAK, SPEED and the first MATRIX are a pretty great action triple to have on your resume.
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I still would.
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dude
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This MUST be made. Keanu Reeves hardly needs the money so it isn't a cash in or career boost, it's for the fun of it. I mean the guy played Neo in the Matrix, he isn't short of a copla bucks.
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But I really think this is one of those cases where another sequel could take away from the films already out there.<p>I don't care how unrealistic it is, when I watch Excellent Adventure or Bogus Journey I want to believe that Wyld Stallions changed the world into some ultra-cool futuristicc utopia. I don't want to see a third film where this hasn't happened.
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Ah, who cares?
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The guy is like the Highlander or something.
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Sadly Keanu is still a retard.
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Sadly Keanu is still a retard.
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Part of me feels without Carlin it's not quite the same, but somebody like Ricky might be able to fill his shoes ever so slightly.
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Make it so.
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to twitter each other to get it to work. Some chick asked me how often I twitter. I told her every morning before work baby- I gotta concentrate.
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is a spam ad for shoes.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 12:37 p.m. CST
MAKE IT AN R-RATED SCI-FI COMEDY/ADVENTURE ALA HEAVY METAL!!!
by CreationistTechnophobicManiacs
Without the suck.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 12:43 p.m. CST
Can't Keanu just make this as he made squillons..
by therootstheroots
on the matrix sequels.
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by real metal heads. It was definately the wanna-be metal Celine dion doing AC/DC of it's time. Now that Metallica and all metal has proven itself to be timeless and better than any bullshit we've gotten since. Scrap this idea and go all out with a Brutal Legend movie. Know what fuck that. I'm just gonna go buy Brutal Legend right now. The fucking thing got rented and should never have been returned.
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I hope it happens though Bill and Ted 2 had nice closure already, it'd be nice to have another adventure!
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Too many. Tonight, I drink to you, brother.
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the guy might be a wooden actor but he was born to play Spike.please make it so mr Reeves.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 1:11 p.m. CST
Old Bill and Ted travel to the future to help teenage Rufus.
by Chewtoy
There... age problems and missing George Carlin dealt with.
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...or there's little point to doing it at all.
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They've been dead, already. So, wouldn't they have been ghosts when they were playing with Death?
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Keanu's a good lad.
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I mean seriously, WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK!?
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In 2015, 1985 will be as long ago as 1955 was when Back To The Future was in cinemas. I'm sure I saw a trailer for the original film being released again, is that to see if the franchise still has any legs? I'd rather see a new Back To The Future film than a new Bill and Ted film. I mean Bill and Ted was fun and everything, but it's rather dated by now, and suited its time just fine. Back To The Future is an ageless classic.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 2:22 p.m. CST
thing is, youth colture didn't change as much since 85
by David Cloverfield
as it did since 55 to 85. I can't really think up good "Whoa, different times!" jokes for a BTTF remake. The major change is in communications (Internet, cellphones, mp3s) but you can only make lame jokes about that in a movie.
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Nobody gives a flying fuck whether metalheads accepted bull OR shit. They suck and Bill & Ted is excellent.
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and he's getting the hair back! i would definitely watch this, no matter how awful it is.
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It was definately the wanna-be metal Celine Dion doing AC/DC of it's time.
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How does one become 'true' metal then, UltraTron? Or is that decided by...you?
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head office for review by Our Glorious Master Lucifer Morningstar and his minions, Ronny James Dio and Randy Roads
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holy hell. god I feel old now....
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the mark of a true meatalhead <p>who are you, andy buczko jr? <p>douche
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Is that these films (and Wayne's World and Beavis & Butthead which were clear rip-offs) are beloved by metal heads....and they were MAKING FUN of them!
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Imagine spending over twenty years believing you are going to change the world and live an awesome life, only to end up at a job getting paid minimum wage with a name tag on your' shirt...<br><br>Wait, that is the story of millions of people (who most likely didn't go to college).
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Sept. 20, 2010, 3:13 p.m. CST
Well put it this way you little nerds. If you think the movie is
by UltraTron
"Metal" in any way. You were never metal in any way. There. Is that clear?
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Actually, just combine the two. Wouldn't be hard to do.. just have Bill and Ted show up as guests on Wayne's World, and then adventure starts there, so Wayne and Garth tag along. I know most people would think that's lame, but it'd be worth it to see Wayne and Garth travel to different time periods... their reactions would be like the chroma key scene in the first Wayne's World.
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That he needs to go back to the well with this one? I agree with one of the above posters: I would rather see a third Wayne's World movie than this.
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spot on keanu. haaaaaaaa
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I live in San Dimas btw.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 3:42 p.m. CST
Stargate Universe --- EPIC SEASON 2 BEGINS ON SEPT. 28 !!!!!!!
by DioxholsterReturns
September 28th!!!!
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News to me.
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which is to say never.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 3:43 p.m. CST
SCREW THIS -- WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH "THE THING" PREQUEL???!!!!!!
by JonChambers
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I clearly remember reading something about the budget needed would be too high, so they scrapped it.
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not much box office success with that shitty name.
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Why would a film franchise that already has its own established time travel equipment (the phone both, itself a nod to Doctor Who, one presumes) want to reference a different time travel story's imagery? Isn't that a bit like suggesting that Return of the Jedi should have called Luke and Vader's weapons "phaser swords" in a reference to Star Trek?
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...but seeing him do his impression of Werner Herzog just won me over.
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...what we call phone booths here in Canada.)
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They kinda painted themselves in a corner with the last movie. If it would've just ended with them winning the battle of the bands and the world watching them, it would've been fine, but all the magazine/newspaper covers at the end kinda puts you in an odd place for the 3rd movie. It basically said that Bill & Ted have become what they were supposed to be. Now, I guess you can have it set in the future and society is crumbling and basically Bill & Ted need to get the band back together. I actually liked the one idea that was thrown around where Bill & Ted were supposed to be old and fat and basically a lounge act in Vegas. And I hope they don't try to recast Rufus. Just leave that alone. Say that Rufus is dead. I mean people die in the future.
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Well ask and you shall receive... <p> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieZn3LYMBDc
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@dailysports and Keanu They should definitely call it that. Not only the most fitting follow-up to the trio prior film's subtitling, but something I think studios might actually go for with its psuedo-edgy factor. And Herzog should actually direct. He seems pretty open-minded these days.
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bitchin'
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I just made a 'Blackest Night' joke. <P> There is something wrong with me.
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Have you heard what passes for metal, these days? If you judge based on today's popular "retardscreamcore" sound, Megadeth isn't metal.
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they seem to be creeping up to old man territory.
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You can't get around that they're going to be 50 years old. They just have to make it part of the future. A new adventure for the old dudes who united the world with their music. They could emulate their favorite old dude, and go back in time to help some kids do the right thing. Kids from today, who have some important role in future history. The story has to stay focused on Bill & Ted though...lets the kids screw it up and Bill & Ted have to fix it, or something like that.
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It was called Bio-Dome. Not that it was any GOOD, mind you, but it's already been done.
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How hard can it be to come up with a good sequel idea?
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I want it, make it happen...then Constantine 2... That is all Keanu.
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i think he has some type of neurological disorder.
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McFly changed the future we saw in BF2 by not crashing into the rolls royce. So basically if he'd gotten into the accidenet we'd have flying cars and hoverboards. What a shame :)
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This has got to be made.. It's my biggest film want outside of Ghostbusters 3!
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I'd say Carlin aint quite the same seeing as how he's dead.
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He was a dick.
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And that, Ted my friend, is what the title most definitely should be! Or maybe Outstanding instead of Awesome...or not. Whatever, I'm extremely up for this movie! Bill & Ted approaching 50 would make this more interesting. We should see Ted basically becoming his father and threatening to send his own son (Ted jr.) to military school. We find out that the famous saviours from the future are/were in fact Ted's son, Ted jr. and (wait for it) Bill's daughter, Bill(ie) played by Dakota Fanning!
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There was even a comic book series.
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I honestly thought he was spending the last 20 years or so trying to ESCAPE Bill & Ted.
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Sorry.
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...as a young Rufus.
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Where the hell has he been?
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behind Keanu in that interview?..Santino Corleone! in da house!
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Have the Matrix be reset but different this time. Neo can come back to be the architect, or the Oracle. Have Zion and the machines working together until a new version of Agent Smith comes forward.
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How can so many bands that sound exactly the same except with different lame ass names (The Devil Wears Prada? Really?) all be so successful? Or am I just getting old?
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Sept. 20, 2010, 8:16 p.m. CST
Remember that Tales From the Crypt with Sadler in it?
by DanielKurland
As his Bill and Ted character, dueling with the Cryptkeeper?
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Best of seven...?<BR><BR>DAMN RIGHT!
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not if I had a name like "Disco"
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My screen name is not (necessarily) from the music, but from a movie by the same name starring the late, great Rudy Ray Moore (better known from "Dolemite".) See Harry's DVD review thread from last week for more info.
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It's got to be a really good script to succeed at this point so many years later. It's got to be on par with BTTF in terms of script and plot complexity... but most importantly it's got to flow naturally ... that's the real magic of BTTF, nothing ever feels like a stretch.( 2 and 3 however suffer from this a bit ) <BR><BR> B&T 2 is actually far better than I remembered it when I saw it in the theater. The death stuff is brilliant. <BR><BR> I don't think you can do the future angle... it won't work. The magic of Bill and Ted is that they are basically bringing history and literature down to the "common man". They're telling the audience that you can learn high minded concepts and history without having to be an uptight douche. ( taken with a bit of creative license ). It's an inclusive film because everyone knows a tiny tiny bit about the historical figures of the first movie and the literary and traditional cultural references of heaven and hell in the 2nd movie. <BR> A 3rd movie will have to preserve that feeling IMHO
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Yes. Yes it's horrible, this idea. Although I would like to see a 3rd movie, assuming they did a good job with it. Which they almost certainly wouldn't.
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Really. I think the first is a great film, and pitch perfect. The second has moments, but makes some big missteps too. A third? Well, I think it has the same kind of problem as Ghostbusters 3: the second was not really as good as the first, and it's a long time after to be thinking about another sequel. I really don't know... I guess I'm hoping they could do it, but on the other hand, I don't know what's left for them to really say or do. And no Carlin is a huge hurdle to overcome. Plotwise, the first and second films implied a certain destiny, and showed how it came about... what can be said now to make a 3rd film worth it? Something about their kids screwing up the most excellent future maybe???
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Even between the first film and the second you could notice a shift in the type of music featured in the movie. Would the new film have B&T heavily into today's music? That just wouldn't work, but what else would the studio want (demand) from a film like this? UGh, I am thinking this should just be abandoned. Maybe those four guys should collaborate on some new movie premise if they really want to work together again. I don't want to see a nuke the fridge type deal with Bill and Ted.
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These monkeys are either writing this piece of shit or they're NOT. Knock off the fucking sorta nonsense. We gotta godamn epidemic of sorta these days, you twits.
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The best concept for a new Bill and Ted movie is that the Wyld Stallyns have changed the world and created perfect utopia, etc... but now their kids, Little Bill and Little Ted, have taken typical teenage rebellion to the next level. They find a time machine (or maybe they're even aided and goaded on by an evil anti-utopian time traveler) and decide to re-write history, using their own crappy punk emo music as the foundation for a new civilization. Now Bill and Ted need to smack some sense into them and prevent "Be excellent to each other" from being replaced with "Burn everything because dad won't buy me an XBox."
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give Mohamed Atta a Melvin. Too soon?
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Its so simple and yet so subtly brilliant.
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Keanu's a bad motherfucker! Awesome Herzog impression.
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..but now we're metal, SO GET OVER HERE AND PUT OUT!!
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OH WAZZUP HOMEY...FO' REAL THO' DAWG....WORD TO THAT!...I mean, their idiotic surfer language is obselete now...so will they black up?
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Alex Winter wrote some great stuff.
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They couldn't possibly do a worse job than the Wackowski Bro... er, that is,... Siblings.
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I'd like to see them start off in the utopia we saw in the other films... we see too many films that accidentally ruin the happy endings of their predecessors, it'd be cool to see them actually living the life that was destined for them! Then on the day that Rufus was meant to go back and help younger Bill & Ted, Death (being a clutz) accidentally kills Rufus (doesn't sound funny now that I write it, but still...). Then the utopia crumbles around them, leaving Bill & Ted (immune because of their time-travelling) stuck in a world like today, where they have to figure out how to travel back in time and stop Death... probably isn't that good an idea to be honest... I should probably be working now instead of writing crap like this.
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Make it the same story as in "Kill Bill" but with Ted being "The Bride".
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Jeez
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Alex Winter is praying to many gods right now that this happens. Also, make it about time traveling rather than visiting Hell and being chased by friggin'bunnies.
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did one of the brothers really get his junk snipped? Movie would be pretty cool, if they don't fuck it up like another ghostbusters.
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