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Whoa!! Keanu Reveals BILL & TED 3 Tidbits!!
LAST WEEK, we learned that the GALAXY QUEST director Dean Parisot had been attached to a third BILL & TED script, authored by returning writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. Said script would return Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter to the roles they originated in Stephen Herek's BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE back in 1989, which they reprised in BILL & TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY two years later.
Now, in an interview with GQ (GQ as in Gentleman's Quarterly, not Galaxy Quest), Keanu Reeves hints at the project's storyline.
We have a nice story. We'll see if anyone else wants to make it.
[EDIT]
One of the plot points is that these two people have been crushed by the responsibility of having to write the greatest song ever written and to change the world. And they haven't done it. So everybody is kind of like: "Where is the song?" The guys have just drifted off into esoterica and lost their rock. And we go on this expedition, go into the future to find out if we wrote the song, and one future "us" refuses to tell us, and another future "us" blames us for their lives because we didn't write the song, so they're living this terrible life. In one version we're in jail; in another we're at some kind of highway motel and they hate us.
You can find more HERE at GQ. Personally, I really hope they make this film. Between my insatiable desire for more BILL & TED movies with Reeves and Winter, and my vast respect for director Parisot's work on GALAXY QUEST, this project is very high on my "most ant to see" list.
Here's hoping...
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As in being too old for this film?
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Can't wait.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 2:43 p.m. CST
The sould team up with the D - they already have the greatest rock song in the world (tribute)
by KillaKane
This is going to be most excellent if the script is there, by all acounts it is - Party On Dudes...
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You can't make a Bill and Ted movie without George Carlin as Rufus!!!!!
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Aug. 13, 2012, 2:45 p.m. CST
Aren't their future selfs long bearded men with babies on their back?
by Ricardo
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The movie seems to be a lot better than I remember upon viewing it again (not epic, but a doable intro to an eventually good series--a la Blade).
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At the end of the second film. They changed the world right? I mean in the credits they show all the magazines and stuff about how they changed the world. So did that stuff not happen? They went to the future to learn how to play then came back and one the battle of the bands and changed the world right? Or am i lost?
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what a load of rubbish!
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sorry dude your 'nice' story sucks donkey balls. Here's an idea - buy the rights to The Matrix and do the sequels as they should have been done and not like the masturbatory shit that was made.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 2:55 p.m. CST
Bill Sykes was in a film. Was Annie a remake of Oliver!
by elviszombie78
Bill is Bill, Ted is Ted. Groovy ants walk in my bed. I like Bill and Ted films and think they should make more. Why not? Its not like we all wear the same clothes everyday. Be a man Frank!
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The second movie tied things up nicely. Anything more at this point is just jerking off.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 2:56 p.m. CST
isn't it about time for the Matrix Prequel with the Wachowski Sisters?
by cozy
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would that be the song that everyone does the air guitar thing to? and wast that guy clarence clemens? hes dead too they better not get tyler perry to play him.
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you kids....you had potential!
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Sorry to get off point but does anybody know who the character being cradled in the chopper at the end of Predator is. You can barley see anything just whisps of dark hair. Look for yourselfs its there. I like to think its Billy I think he may have survived his spine rip and was just lying low. Bring back De Nomolos ! Diplomatic imunity.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 3:08 p.m. CST
Good luck replacing the great late George Carlin
by RedLeaderStandingBy
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This is one time i want a movie to come back from obscurity and finish what it started. I love both Excellent adventure and Bogus Journey and so do my kids, there was something so special about these films. When I was a kid watching them I thought I too had some sort of special destiny to fulfill. Family members always said I'd be the one to succeed where others fell to the way side. A funny thing happend on the way to the future though... I became a father and I have loved every minute of it. It wasn't the grand destiny I had envisioned for myself it was so much better. A Bill and Ted movie where they wake up much like I did and realise this isn't the future Rufus told them about. There are many pathways to our destiny but sometimes we have to enjoy the journey and not always be so set on the future. Keanu knows what he's doing and I sure as hell hope this gets done.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 3:23 p.m. CST
so they're going to sit around with eachothers others and be all bummed out. and then realize the future's what you make of it, dude.
by DarthBlart
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Aug. 13, 2012, 3:24 p.m. CST
i thought time travel was able to be invented because of the their musics overcoming powers
by DarthBlart
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Aug. 13, 2012, 3:25 p.m. CST
i can't wait for this nomatter what I love the franchise.
by DarthBlart
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Aug. 13, 2012, 3:25 p.m. CST
I love Faith No More and hope they return. So does De Nomolos although he is a shy guy.
by elviszombie78
I also like scott speigel. I had lunch with him once, he bought me four potato skins and a small pepsi.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 3:27 p.m. CST
What the fuck is a "most ant to see" list? Jesus, PROOFREAD people!
by Trying_It_Again_Part_2
For fuck's sake, at least TRY to come across as semi-intelligent!
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Aug. 13, 2012, 3:31 p.m. CST
they need to make a triumphant video with eddie van halen.
by DarthBlart
while theyre at it, other dead rock stars , hendrix, morrison, beethoven, tupac, joplin
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Aug. 13, 2012, 3:34 p.m. CST
Sounds like a good premise. The transcendant power of a rock song is probably at its all-time low at the moment, with an industry of derivative trash and downloaders devouring the soul of music.
by kevred
So yes, please, bring back the sense of goofy wonder that carried the first two films. We need it, badly.
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... the storyline was continued for at least one season via the "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures" Saturday morning cartoon series (see also: the "Back To The Future" cartoon series, which aired around the same time and lasted exactly as long.
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Note to Hollywood: If something was great in the 1980's, it does not mean that you need to put out another sequel years later. Whatever magic was present back then has probably faded, and it ends up feeling like a cash grab.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 3:45 p.m. CST
it will just be a load of lowest-common-denominator crap.
by Scrunchie-Scroochie
Instead of an actual Bill&Ted film we'll just get some embarassing bollocks full of YouTube and Facebook and iPod references, loads of shitty 2000's/2010's teeny "rock" music, and probably other cringe-inducing internet SHIT aimed at todays teenagers like Lolcats, or rage memes or whatever the fuck. Fuck you, fuck me, fuck this planet, and FUCK HOLLYWOOD.
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or something? I'm looking forward to this, I like the idea that they've had their destiny passed to them on a plate and that they've taken it for granted as not chased their rightful future.. Only thing is, wasn't "God made Rock & Rol for you part 2" in bogus journey the song that changed the world already?
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Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann onto the stage during the height of the Republican Convention. Sarah and Michelle (while striding to the podium microphone): "Thanks, Bill and Ted" Bill and Ted: "Catch you later, Old Babes"
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needs attachable jpegs in the talkback more than ever
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Aug. 13, 2012, 4:03 p.m. CST
they need to go back in time to see events from the first two movies
by Jubba
like what happened in BTTF2...that's the best way to tie this into those movies. youngify them with CG to film those scenes if necessary.
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I hope that they were the world's greatest band, like the end of bogus journey shows, and that now they're washed up addicts who just hallucinate their adventures while wandering in a park during amphetamine psychosis. Completely serious. Anything actually trying to be done in the spirit of the first two would be total nostalgic shit.
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However, I really enjoyed GALAXY QUEST. If anyone can pull it off, it is the director of that film. I think that it would be vital for the director/writers to play on the nostalgia and just how stupid the original films were.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 4:31 p.m. CST
darthblart, EVH aint dead and he can still wail with the best of 'em
by KillaKane
...although his guitar tone died back in '84
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Stupid like a fox.
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WYLD STALLYNS!!! :D
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Oh well.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 5:03 p.m. CST
How come my only problem with the matrix sequels was Roy Jones Jr? I must be different than others.
by UltraTron
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Aug. 13, 2012, 5:04 p.m. CST
Better. Stronger. Faster. Smarter. Able to fuck longer. The works.
by UltraTron
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Aug. 13, 2012, 5:10 p.m. CST
One of the best gags right there. Shows how high they've been all this time. Show that they have a pound a day habit since medical became available
by UltraTron
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Alex Winter is the other guy from Bill and Ted. I imagine Alex Winter living in a trailer park begging Reeves who lives in a mansion to make this movie. I too would like to see a tenacious D crossover since my username is a D song lyric. I would like to see a past doctor or current Doctor Who play Rufus type. I mean Bill and Ted is doctor who with surfer doods right? Why not have Cheech and Chong meet Bill and Ted meet Jay and Silent Bob meet the Flintstones meets the Anna Farris from Smiley face movie? Works for expendables and avengers
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Aug. 13, 2012, 5:18 p.m. CST
Thanks for remind me of "internet Experts" Because that's a great story! Here's how it works
by locater16
So here's how this works. They get two teenaged/early twenties dudes that LOOK like Bill and Ted. These guys play earlier "original" them. They say "hey dude, I'm having trouble writing this awesome song." "Totally. Hey, let's just go into the future, and ask ourselves how we wrote it." "Radical!" So they use the phone booth to do so. The Bill and Ted that did write the song, and change the future, won't tell them. Because otherwise, they'll have never written the song and the future won't happen. So the younger Bill and Ted keep searching, and find a bunch of other future Bill and Ted's where they didn't write the song, and so the future totally isn't radical. It works perfectly. You have a bunch of roles for Keanu and Alex, and you get the "original" Bill and Ted in the mix as well too, as well as good time travel story. Oh, and Louis CK should totally take the place of radical time traveler that guide them along.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 5:35 p.m. CST
George Carlin was great but at the end he was just a grumpy old man
by Transhuman
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1 - the bill and ted nes game was fun in the worst way possible, but i kept playing that crap. 2- tribute is not the greatest song in the world, it is a tribute to the greatest song in the world. 3- besides the bill and ted cartoon (horrible - ran for 2 seasons with the movie cast doing the voices for the first season and then a horriblererer drop off for the second season) wasnt there also a live action show??
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keen for this.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 5:46 p.m. CST
Well no, George Carlin was spot on about everything he said
by Mugato5150
Now Galaxy Quest, that's a franchise that needs to be explored. The Scream franchise was all about the progression between the original, the sequel, the trilogy and the remake. A Galaxy Quest franchise could be about the Original, the Next Generation, the spin-offs and the Reboot. Jesus Christ, this shit writes itself. But nobody will ever do it.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 5:49 p.m. CST
I always thought Reeves was out of his element EXCEPT for Bill and Ted
by Queefer Sutherland
The guy can't act, but that isn't required in Bill and Ted. He's essentially playing himself. Believe me, I know.
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A snarky contrast to Carlin's optimistic Rufus.
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These talkbacks have turned into parodies of themselves.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 5:57 p.m. CST
@tell_your_mom_i_said_hi "How about Constantine sequel instead"
by Gabe Athouse
You get hit a lot, don't you?
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Always trumpeting the same complaint. Apparently he doesn't notice all the movies that AREN'T sequels or remakes. There are really quite a few.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 6:01 p.m. CST
While I, of course, am a complete parody as well.
by Queefer Sutherland
And choose to be such.
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We NEED a Bill & Ted movie. Way too many movies around trying to be 'dark', 'brooding' and fucking vampire-inspired fuckup, or HUGE comic book fare. Bill & Ted are out-and-out fun, comedy adventure, the perfect example of genre-fusing. The characters are universally relatable and honest. Two normal guys caught up in an adventure. Way easy to relate to Bill & Ted than the likes of Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark!
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Aug. 13, 2012, 6:47 p.m. CST
bill and teds live action tv show had like 1 good episode. it's on youtube ...
by DarthBlart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxGXwiXIuRY there's a couple back to the future episodes of the cartoon that are worth the whole rest of the series. the dinosaur humanoid future and the salem witch trials springt to mind.
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As much as I loved this franchise as a kid this sounds terrible. The first movie was an adventure through time. The second was an adventure through the afterlife. This one is what, inter dimensional? I don't think this is necessary. But I hope they pull it off!
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Like an insatiable desire for more Gremlin movies??
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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are both 47. If they started recording and performing music in their early 20's (as depicted at the end of Bogus Journey), then they'd be firmly in the Steel Wheels phase of their career by now. All their best work would be behind them and they'd be playing nostalgia shows to aging Gen Xers with setlists full of songs from their first few albums with occasional tedious forays into their newer, more "mature" work. Bob Dylan wrote Blowin' in the Wind when he was 21. Paul McCartney was 25 when Sgt. Pepper came out. The Rolling Stones had released over a dozen classic albums before Mick Jagger even turned 30. A couple of 47 year olds who haven't made it big, even after a bizarre worldwide concert broadcast 20 years earlier, are never going to succeed in the music industry. So the entire premise of this screenplay is flawed.
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So if they were in their 20s, the premise would be acceptable? Time travel and all? I mean, really, if you're going to use some kind of criteria to judge one part of the movie, you have to extend it to the rest. Otherwise you just look like an idiot - which is just what you did. I saw the first film and was entertained, but never saw the second and certainly won't see this one, so I'm no big supporter here. Criticize away, but be consistent in your approach.
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Time travel is a conceit that any time travel movie automatically earns. It doesn't have to be plausible. But in the history of popular music, there is literally no artist that has ever made it huge out from out of nowhere while in their late 40's. We don't have real-world knowledge of how time travel would work, so it falls cleanly into the fantasy realm. But we do know how the music industry works, and the premise of 47 year-olds writing a relevant hit song that could change the world violates the established rules of the music industry. Also, since Bill and Ted looked like they were in their 20's during the montage at the end of Bogus Journey, and since that montage showed them saving the world with rock (via magazine covers all dated from the 90's and early '00s), this premise also contradicts the established continuity of the universe.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 8:13 p.m. CST
This movie needs to take some notes from 21 JUMP STREET
by GibsonUSA Returns
Bill & Ted need to be out of their element at some point...fish out of water when coming into contact with today's music and vocabulary. At some point Bill needs to vent about the quality of today's mainstream rock.<BR><BR> And call the movie "BILL AND TED'S EPIC WIN"
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Bill and Ted are at the peak of their game. Rockin the world and bringing peace to all civilizations. The out of nowhere they are on tour and their song has the adverse effect on people. It cause chaos and mayham in a mega arena. People, news, heck the world turns on them. What happened? They have been playing this song for years. they go into hiding when future bill and Ted appear looking like zz top bill and Ted and they tell them that a rival band from San Demos has stollen their licks and hash reverted Thierry song. It cannot be changed. The only solution is to find a new son that station can encoad a protection on for them to dehorn the anaracy that this rival band is using to destroy the world. The they are presented with a portotype of the first time machine and go back to the circle k after their second appreaemce there. And they the tell old Bugus journey selves that a rival band member who loses the completion will one day Sabatogage their song and soon and they will be views ans non non non righteous to the world. Old I'll and Ted along with death seek out the band Leader, and bill and Ted deside that the best way to find what song will be unify the world will be to to take the phone both and travel to different worlds to sample their music with alien instruments. Meeting some funny aliens along the way. Eventually they find the planet of rock. A planet that lives in totally harmony. a planet where all the rock Gods of the past came from. They learn it all, bring it back to earth and with alien technology ans stations help put one a show that lines up earth with all the galaxies from across space and time. Call it Bill And Ted Save the Galaxy!
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They actually wrote the song years ago and put it in a drawer. When they get older they find it and release it. That way you can have a "young" song even though they're much older now. (Or better yet, they find 3 or 4 songs they wrote years ago and merge them together to make the greatest song ever.)
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Aug. 13, 2012, 8:57 p.m. CST
the sequel should have bill and ted fight the illuminati and reptilians and find out why justin beiber and lady gaga are nwo robots.
by ChiefChirpa3000
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All the magazines and newpapers lead us to believe that they made it. They played Mars for crying out loud. And air guitar cured smog. I'm still up fot B&T3. I think them being older and a little sadder is a good thing. Plus Keanu playing Ted again wil be so funny, cause he hasn't done that character in so long, most of his character have been very stone-like and wooden, that seeing him play Ted will be a lot of fun.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 9:24 p.m. CST
Interesting film in pre production called "Lust Deception"
by Clarence_Boddickers_Optometrist
Granted its DTV but with Zachary Ty Bryan, Elizabeth Berkley and Brad Dourif, should not be discounted. The short summary is it's about a psychologist who finds out a little TOO much about a client during sessions, and the tables are turned in a visceral, deadly way. Directed by newcomer Bill E. Trevane: only info on him online is his involvement with an Oingo Boingo concert DVD. Still, intriguing stuff...
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this might be hard to pull off with the younger crowd.
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Aug. 13, 2012, 9:52 p.m. CST
am i the only damn person who wants to see a remake of EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY, same cast?????????
by Balkin Flabgurter
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you know the drill.
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BRING BACK BILL SADLER!
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Answer: Only as asshole
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Gold
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Aug. 13, 2012, 11:18 p.m. CST
People need to pull their dicks out of Crystal Skull's ass already
by wcolbert
Get over it. It wasn't THAT bad. It just had some really bad shit in it - namely anything with Shia and too much CGI -but the parts involving Harrison were all fine.
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but damn, "god made rock n roll" is such a feel good song to end a movie about rock n roll (and god)
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Aug. 13, 2012, 11:24 p.m. CST
One thing they need to stay FAR away from that a lot of late-coming updates to movie series do...NO MODERN POP CULTURE REFERENCES!
by wcolbert
It really puts a giant time stamp on the movie when you stick things like Jersey shore references into it (3 stooges, anyone?) ...and instantly makes it feel stale and out of date just a few years down the road when that fad ends. Movies like Bill and Ted were steeped in the music and style of the times, true, but it worked because they weren't throwing in references just for the sake of having them to pop culture phenomena that would now be obscure as hell. Realize that movies are forever. Don't limit the range of appeal to 3 to 5 years.
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the Disney ride has better effects, and is more Indy than CS.
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Appy polly-logies if someone else said it (too lazy to check). But it needed to be said.
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Otherwise I won't watch.
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Aug. 14, 2012, 4:17 a.m. CST
In unrelated news...the new ROBOCOP evidently has him "transforming" into different modes e.g. social mode, police mode...ahhh shit here we go
by wcolbert
Can't they rape the corpse of some other beloved character please? Oh wait. They are.
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Aug. 14, 2012, 8:53 a.m. CST
Should have a gag where Bill was killed and replaced by a double like Mcartney. The double could look hilarious and nothing like Bill just like Mcartney's double.
by UltraTron
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Aug. 14, 2012, 8:54 a.m. CST
Could just be a short gag that they go back in time and fix.
by UltraTron
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Aug. 14, 2012, 8:57 a.m. CST
If you did that gag you could show a death cameo when they retrieve Ted from the afterlife
by UltraTron
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Forget about Freddy vs. Jason. Kill Bill & Ted! Uma taking the heads of the two idiots. Quentin, make it happen!
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Bill and Ted, we're all gonna be wearing gold plated diapers!
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Because he played with the band and you can't replace Death. :P
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Aug. 14, 2012, 10:44 a.m. CST
Get Billy Connolly to play an equivalent character to Rufus?
by bubcus
Or as Keysersoze mentioned Walken... or even Denis Leary. There are options. I like this plot description by the way.
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Aug. 14, 2012, 1:08 p.m. CST
Re: Why A BILL & TED Sequel Couldn't Work Today:
by ArmageddonProductions
(from the script):</p><p> BILL and TED are speaking to TODAY'S YOUTH about something.</p><p> BILL</P><p> Excellent!</p><p> He mimics playing a righteous guitar solo via air guitar. We actually HEAR the SOUND of an electric guitar screaming out a solo!</p><p> The members of Today's Youth stare at him in utter confusion. One of them speaks up:</P><P> TODAY'S YOUTH</p><P> What are you doing?</P><p> BILL</P><P> Dude, I'm playing a guitar solo!</p><p> TODAY'S YOUTH</P><P> What's a guitar solo?
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BILL</p><P> We gotta save the world with rock!</p><p> TED</P><p> Awesome! We'll throw a huge concert and get every big rock act we can find in this time period! TODAY'S YOUTH</p><p> Cool! I'll Tweet around and see if I can find somebody who knows Vampire Weekend, My Chemical Romance, the White Stripes, Limp Bizkit, Wilco, Archers of Loaf and Maroon 5!
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There's enough video/audio of him to piece together a CGI Rufus... at least for a cameo. As long as his estate gets a cut... why not? We can rebuild him... we have the technology.
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Death was the best part of Bogus Journey. "you sank my battleship" Hillarious
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I'll have to remember to be nicer to myself in the future.
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Aug. 14, 2012, 3:20 p.m. CST
Who gives a shit about today's "kids" and whether or not they get it?
by Darth Macchio
That's why they get Transformers and "Vampires Suck" type movies and us cobweby types B&T's excellent adventure part 3 and Drive, and so on... Was the recent live action versions of Marmaduke for kids? Kids who's parents wouldn't have even had hair one between their legs when Marmaduke was in syndication in the sunday funnies? And Smurfs? When was the last time that show was on the air as a series? The 90s? And they just got around to a movie? I mean really - have you even tried to listen to that Beiber kid? Is he even a musician or the unspeakable organic by-product of the collective navel-gazing angst of millions of teenage girls? I can't even tell the difference between youth "singers" and youth "actors" anymore (what the hell is Miley Cyrus? a singer/pop-star or an actor? no clue. And the Kardashians? Are they even human? Or are they "PR"-pod people?). I used to think I'd never be be a cobweby (read: old) dust-farter type who talked shit about young artists and their "art" but like anything else, there's true genius here and there in youth art and tons and tons (and more tons) of pure mindless idiotic tripe. Just like we had it as teenagers, like our parent's did, and just like todays teens' future spawn will have it in 25 years. There's no catering to mass positive opinion unless you give up your soul. There's simply no room in the human psyche for both. Even then, it's still probably impossible. Sigh
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Aug. 14, 2012, 3:36 p.m. CST
you guys totally are missing the obvious: They will cast a 'young Rufus' due to all the time travel shenanigans. And they should get David Cross to do it.
by Arcadian
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Actually, the guy is doing okay for himself. He directs instead of acting, so... that's why you don't see him. Looking forward to him getting The Gate 3D off the ground. That would be nuts. And this movie could be a lot of fun. But what do I know? I'm old.
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...is the worst idea of all time, especially with so much time having gone by. Not interested!
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And still thought they sucked.
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