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Par­ty on dudes!! The Bill & Ted come­back is final­ly on

04 Apr 2018

Words by Eve Jones

Two men with arms raised, performing on stage with dramatic lighting.
Two men with arms raised, performing on stage with dramatic lighting.
The total­ly excel­lent news of a new sequel comes after a recent cast and crew reunion.

Near­ly 30 years after mak­ing their big screen debut, Bill, Ted and their excel­lent air gui­tars may final­ly be mak­ing a come­back. In a recent reunion for Enter­tain­ment Week­ly, Alex Win­ter and Keanu Reeves, along with screen­writ­ers Ed Solomon and Chris Math­e­son, made clear their desire to return for Bill & Ted 3.

With time trav­el, Abra­ham Lin­coln and death already tack­led, the only thing Bill & Ted haven’t yet faced is real­i­ty – and it sounds like they’re set to do just that in this sequel. Titled Bill & Ted Face the Music, the film’s script report­ed­ly sees the now mid­dle-aged duo deal­ing with the pres­sure of the unful­filled poten­tial of their rock music, which was proph­e­sied to bring about uni­ver­sal har­mo­ny’ at the end of Bogus Journey.

You’re told you’re gonna save the world,” says Math­e­son, and now you’re 50 and you haven’t done it. Now they’re mar­ried, and it affects their mar­riages, and it affects their rela­tion­ships with their kids, and it affects their everything.”

Solomon, mean­while, has con­firmed that there will still be space with­in the mid-life cri­sis sto­ry­line for the slap­stick hilar­i­ty which char­ac­terised the first two films. I think it’s kind of like A Christ­mas Car­ol with Bill and Ted. Look­ing at their lives, and real­ly kind of redis­cov­er­ing what they’re about.”

Although Bill & Ted fans have been frus­trat­ed by the stop-start pre-pro­duc­tion process, this peri­od has allowed Solomon and Math­e­son to assem­ble an impres­sive cast and crew. Along­side orig­i­nal pro­duc­er Scott Kroopf, Steven Soder­bergh is also signed on to pro­duce, while Galaxy Quests Dean Parisot has been named as director.

As well as Reeves and Win­ter, Bill Sadler is back, return­ing as death, and a few deli­cious cameos by peo­ple to be named anoth­er time” teas­es Solomon. We are hop­ing to close a deal with some financiers. Hope­ful­ly with­in the next month or so, we’ll have news that will stick.”

What would you like to see from a Bill & Ted sequel? Let us know @LWLies

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