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BILL & TED 3 Pulls The GALAXY QUEST Director Into Their Phone Booth!!
The Kidd here...
We've been hearing talk of BILL & TED 3 for quite some time, with both Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter discussing all the work they've been putting in writing the sequel in order to make sure they've got the characters just right at this point in their lives and consistent with EXCELLENT ADVENTURE and BOGUS JOURNEY. Well, BILL & TED 3 moved from being just talk today to being a lot closer to action, now that Vulture reports that GALAXY QUEST director Dean Parisot is attached to direct.
Strange things indeed are afoot at the Circle K.
Reeves and Winter have been a lock to return, but BILL & TED creators Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson are also involved, having worked to hammer out the script with Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan.
MGM owns the rights to the original BILL & TED, but that doesn't particularly mean they'll be entirely behind the sequel. Right now, the new film is being shopped around everywhere else, in the hopes of setting up a co-financing deal between MGM and whomever, since MGM is still recovering from their previous financial troubles.
But there's plenty of time for those deals to be arranged as Dean Parisot is set to shoot the RED sequel, so production for BILL & TED 3 would need to wait for those committments to be fulfilled, but that doesn't sound like much of a problem. BILL & TED 3 looks like it's really going to happen, and...
SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!!!
-Billy Donnelly
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It shouldn't cost a lot of money and he made a shit load of dough from The Matrix sequels. He should pay for it.
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*air guitar*
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Aug. 10, 2012, 11:53 a.m. CST
I recently watched Side Out with C Thomas Howell
by Clarence_Boddickers_Optometrist
Again and it struck me midway through how perfect it could translate to the Broadway stage.
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This is truly epic. In fact, that word needs to be in the title. Bill & Ted's Epic _______
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Hope they can pull it off.
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nah don't surrender either... either
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Aug. 10, 2012, 11:59 a.m. CST
bill and ted's bromantic fistpumping and sexting adventure
by EyeForgiveMelGibson
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He actually gave away tons of that money to the below the line crew of the Matrix sequels. Of all the billionaire actor/directors trying to get some obscure passion-project of the ground, I don't think some generous actor like Keanu should have to pitch in for an addition to a notable franchise.
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George Carlin RIP legend of comedy and culture and language ect all we are is dust in the wind. I read this book about movies and they mention Death playing chess and I'm like Bill and Ted's bogus journey but it is from an Igmar Bergman's classic Seventh Seal. Bill and Ted went over my head as a child not till I was older did I get that reference/ parody.
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He would really mean "I'll be Bach!"
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Aug. 10, 2012, 12:10 p.m. CST
Keanu showing up for his friend to make Freaks is enough for me.
by DarthBlart
He also came for the read through.
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Aug. 10, 2012, 12:12 p.m. CST
And might as well go with...Bill & Ted Get Married..with LOTS of product placement from Chick Fil A..
by openthepodbaydoorshal
Wild Stallyns indeed.
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The new regime is just rebooting and remaking their catalog titles. Really, lowest common denominator creatives.
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...Blues Brothers 2000?
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Just checking.
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But one of these days you are going to dance with the reaper!
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It's kinda nails on the chalkboard when you watch the first two now and they let fly with with it. Still... love those films
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Aug. 10, 2012, 12:45 p.m. CST
warsinthesun: So someone fucks up the timeline which turns Rufus black and destroys rock and roll with Nickleback?
by kindofabigdeal
Bill and Teds Non-Heinous Voyage Bill and Teds Radical Quest or Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure: Not
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Aug. 10, 2012, 12:45 p.m. CST
LOUIS CK OULD BE PERFECT FOR THE NEW RUFUS. GREAT CALL JEDIROB!!!!
by gruemanlives
As for Samuel L. Jackson, he's in enough movie already. Louis CK would be a much better choice anyway.
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... I mean Mom ... I wonder how she's holding up?
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...is if they're, somehow, inserted into the original films. As if their future selves are assisting their past selves while, at the same time, realizing how stupid they were as kids. Or something. And, yeah, whatever happened to Amy Stock-Poynton?
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... and party on dudes!
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Aug. 10, 2012, 1:41 p.m. CST
Got to say, I'm nervous about this, even with everyone on board. The first ones are a perfect two-parter.
by Mr Nicholas
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Galaxy Quest II !!
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Aug. 10, 2012, 1:49 p.m. CST
You could be a King or a little street sweeper....
by Nasty In The Pasty
...but sooner of later YOU DANCE MIT DE REAPER!
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Even though the story made no sense at all, it had a stellar cast. Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, the always awesome Alan Rickman... It was even a project that Tim Allen was in that didn't piss me off. And the black haired alien girl was hot (in her human form). Do a sequel to that.
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Aug. 10, 2012, 1:53 p.m. CST
so little Bill and little Ted are about 20 now and are rebelling against their fathers' legacy?
by coz
tell me their kids will be the villains
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Has Galaxy Quest come around for it's due "Princess bride"-esque cult Resurrection, I know I hear less and less negative things about it these days compared to when it was originally released but have people in general rediscovered that gem?
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sure he will partially. he does so in "47 ronin"
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Aug. 10, 2012, 2:11 p.m. CST
Galaxy Quest was supposed to be Rated R...so bring that!
by future help
http://io9.com/5892200/somewhere-there-exists-an-r+rated-version-of-galaxy-quest This odd bit of trivia comes from John Carter producer Lindsey Collins, who told Collider that Galaxy Quest's own Sigourney Weaver let the info slip: We had lunch with Sigourney [Weaver] who was telling us that there actually used to be an R-rated version of that movie which was awesome. It was the director's cut and it was R-rated and everybody was swearing and there were sex scenes, and the whole thing. They didn't know what to do with it, so they had to re-edit the whole thing and made it what it is today. We were like, ‘How do we get our hands on the R-rated version of Galaxy Quest?' She said ‘I don't know!' and we were like, ‘Come on, Sigourney!'
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Aug. 10, 2012, 2:12 p.m. CST
One of the movie's writers is Richard Matheson's kid.
by idonotseekabanning
There's a bit of trivia that'll almost certainly never be of any use to you.
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Aug. 10, 2012, 2:31 p.m. CST
This is brillant. Well done I say!!! "Party ON Dudes!!!" - Abraham Lincoln
by Dogmatic
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Aug. 10, 2012, 2:35 p.m. CST
I should have specified that one of Excellent Adventure's writers is Richard Matheson's kid.
by idonotseekabanning
I didn't, though, and now the whole world has gone to shit.
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Some movies don't 'age well' with me, while others are always good. Bill and Ted....still make me happy. I'm a much bigger fan of Carlin than Winter and Reeves combined, even though he doesn't have a ton of screen time. These are just two goofy little films that work. I hope that the third film doesn't ruin the 'goodwill' of the first two. Encouraged, but not convinced by the Director choice since I also loved (and still do as well) GalaxyQuest. We'll see...
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It'll be Bill and Ted meets Tron. You heard it here first.
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insert Sam Rockwell here
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now that's some happy news. sounds like a great appropriate choice for director too.
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maybe "bill & ted's epic middle-life crisis"? heh!
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bill and ted invented the MILF before the internet!
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their kids start a boyband that will destroy the universe, and whoever the new carlin is shows up to tell b&t they have to stop them. somehow i take it as a given that they did not end up taking the world by storm with "wyld stallions" and the future is tearing apart as a result, but i don't know what to expect from this. someone once wrote it'd be interesting if they "role-reversed" for the movie and make bill the now successful businessman (or maybe even better, a politician) and have ted be down-and-out, perhaps the one contacted from the future that they "have to get their shit together" - i don't know; that's stuff i would guess at as possibilities for a script. lots of interesting possibilities though. i'll probably be guessing at this one as much as i did "tron 2."
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now if we can somehow get a "buckaroo banzai 2" or something going... who's with me on that?
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...a vast, underground high-speed railway network ferrying wage-slaves between the UK and Australia. Oh, wait. We just got one of those, didn't we? Pretty sure I read about that somewhere on the internet. Okay, cool, the world needs 'Bill and Ted 3'.
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They should go back in time to the first Bill & Ted and insert them into the background of the original footage like that DS9 episode.
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Bill & Ted's Epic Win
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Aug. 10, 2012, 3:55 p.m. CST
Bill Murray for Rufus -- Fuck you, Ackroyd and Ramis!
by Julius Dithers
You know it would work.
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Aug. 10, 2012, 4:16 p.m. CST
Time Travel, The Afterlife, ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSES????
by DukieMichaelNamondRandy
Seriously, if these guys were supposed to save the world via Rock and Roll, and we still haven't seen that world, perhaps we somehow entered an alternate timeline? I know that idea was pretty much overdone with "Star Trek", but it's a possibility. Who's to say, though? Tatoosh may be on to somethin' too.
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American accent, and you have it!
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Eddie Van Halen.
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Aug. 10, 2012, 5:50 p.m. CST
Keanu has been really quiet for the last couple of years
by rakesh patel
where is that dude?
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Anything else I can get for you fuckers?
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Not Rufus but his brother Ralphus http://bit.ly/NQXEud
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...a movie I've somehow never seen, even though I've known all these years that it is loved by maney. I must correct this blip in my timeline.
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Is my new indy rock band
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There shall be no other.
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You made a funny legacy, let it go, Do something new.
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Aug. 10, 2012, 7:27 p.m. CST
**BILL & TED'S EPIC WIN** That should be the title of the movie.
by GibsonUSA Returns
And get Bruce Willis to be the mentor guy. Heck, he's willing to play a supporting part in Expendables and G.I Joe, so why not?
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he sounds alot like george, then just do a tron legacy creepy cgi GC. if not then louis ck is the best idea! great great choice. and if they do a young ted they can use james duvall.
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He should be rufus!!!
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Aug. 10, 2012, 7:46 p.m. CST
How about an ALTERNATE UNIVERSE Bill & Ted that never got famous?
by GibsonUSA Returns
UNIVERSE #1 (The first two movies)<BR> Bill and Ted pass their high school project...and save the world with Kiss music. (as we saw in the original movies) <BR><BR> UNIVERSE #2 (Bill & Ted 3)<BR> In this timeline, Bill and Ted never become a famous rock band and now they are 40 yrs old and living boring lives, having long given up on their rock ambitions. Alternate Rufus visits them, and uses the phone booth to show them the successful Bill and Ted of Universe #1 (the first two movies). This gives Universe #2 Bill and Ted new energy and motivation to live their dreams in their timeline.
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Need to check up IMDB on Dean's filmography...surprised his career hasn't gone A - list. A fine director. Wonder how they will adapt Bill and Ted's late 80's sensibility with today's current times...things have changed a lot in music the last 25 years and just about all for the worse. A new crusade perhaps? Against the Beibers, Perrys and Gagas of this world. Whatever the case i cross my fingers they pull this off. Franchises that bring in a sequel with such lengthy gaps in between installments are risky and hard to do. Aliens succeeded after Alien (1979-1986), what else has?
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Aug. 10, 2012, 8:55 p.m. CST
Don't know how I feel about Bill and Ted in their 40's.
by Christian Sylvain
Bogus Journey rocked, but it definitely brought a sense of closure to the series. It's hard picturing how they could continue on with the franchise.
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Will no doubt be WAY BETTER than Ghostbusters 3.
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Although it may be one of those things like Space Balls. Better they never made a sequel. I'm surprised with the hit of the latest Trek film they didn't pull one out. Maybe dealing with the show being rebooted. Although I kind of think, after the first films story. Maybe make it a bit less earth based to start with. Where they aren't necessarily just hanging out on earth after the whole space adventure.
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Choose your own! You fag!
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Totally!
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Could you imagine if there was a Galaxy Quest TNG who had no idea about what happend prior and you get the same steller like case mirroring the personas of the ST:TNG. Comedy Gold.
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:You have a name, Guy. : "Do I, DO I!!
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Aug. 10, 2012, 11:49 p.m. CST
Keanu Reeves is the cruelest, most patient, completely diabolical practical joker on the face of the Earth.
by MCVamp
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Louis Black.
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I can kind of see that. It was heavily implied that Tony Shaloub's character was on drugs and there was plenty of room for raunchy humor.
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A true gem of a film. Took my sons to the cinema one wet Saturday afternoon, it was showing, knew nothing about it at all and went in totally blind and came out knowing it would forever be in my top films list. That there has never been a sequel is a crying shame. I'd sooner that was in production that a third Bill and Ted, much as I enjoyed the two.
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I laaarve showbisssnessss
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That has my vote! Should have happened already. I think it was marketed badly, because the love for the film has exploded over the years. It's a classic.
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the movie was a flop.
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Aug. 11, 2012, 5:10 p.m. CST
Galaxy Quest would be lessened by a Sequel. Kinda like if firefly ran for 9 seasons.
by Arcadian
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It's always painful watching his scenes in these films. And good call, JediRob - you managed to think of another standup comedian with a beard.
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It cost 45 million to make and made 90 million worldwide, not to mention DVD sales and rentals. Do some basic searching before you make an asinine comment based solely on your opinion.
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Noise, Noise, Noise
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For throwing out the "San Dimas High School football rules" quote.
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look of utter disbelief that there is ANYONE who thinks that another film after this long is a good idea"
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Honestly, how cool would it be to see a lightning storm, a phone box appear, and ANTHONY FUCKING HOPKINS step out wearing a snappy suit and super cool shades? He'd probably do it too!
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Aug. 12, 2012, 5:53 a.m. CST
They should call it "Bill And Ted's Difficult Third Movie"
by ChickenStu
It would be refreshingly meta.
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