Anyone who lived through the ’90s probably remembers the Bill & Ted movies – Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991). If, by some chance you, haven’t seen them, the movies revolved around Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan, two time-traveling slackers who first kidnap historical figures to help them with a history test, and then come back to life after being killed by their evil robotic counterparts from the future (and give The Grim Reaper a “melvin” along the way).
Needless to say, the wacky humor and surprisingly clever plots of the Bill & Ted movies have made it one of the more beloved franchises of the late 1980s/early 1990s. In fact, the films were so popular, that fans have been clamoring for a third installment for years. Fortunately for them, Bill & Ted 3 is currently in the works, and star Keanu Reeves recently revealed some of the plot details.
With the twenty-year gap between the movies, many fans are wondering how the third movie will tie in with the other two. Keanu Reeves told GQ:
“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.”
In Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, we learned that the music of Bill and Ted’s band, The Wyld Stallyns, is responsible for creating a Utopian future where people live in harmony by adhering to commandments such as “Be excellent to each other.” As with any good time travel movie, though, things are always in flux.
From the sound of it, this new film will be exploring multiple timelines, which is always fun. After all, what would Back to the Future 2 be without the alternate reality 1985?
It’ll be interesting to see how the writers weave in the plot from the first film into this new one. Cameos by past characters – pun intended – are pretty likely, but I wonder if we’ll see the current Bill and Ted interacting with younger versions of themselves from the original footage.
Bill & Ted 3 (to be directed by Dean Parisot of Galaxy Quest fame) is expected to hit theaters in 2013.
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Source: GQ
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One thing that will suck is no George Carlin(Rufus)
the only way they can include Rufus is if a younger version of his helps the guys (I guess…). Get someone who can do a carlin impression and they’re all set. I wonder if the could age them like in the opposite way of x-men 3.
I still say Bill & Ted’s Outrageous Ending. anyone else got an idea for a title?
Bill & Ted’s Radical Return?
Triumphant Return!
Outrageous Ending does have a ring to it.
I think so too. Plus – it kinda gives it a trilogy feel. I doubt we’d get apart 4 anyways lol
Or maybe, Bill and Ted Most Triumphant (as in more triumphant than the alternate us, us’s).
Outstanding Opus…
Bodacious Beginning
I don’t mind Bill & Ted’s MOST Excellent Adventure either… I can’t get the cartoon show theme out of my head lol been singing it for weeks haha
Do you remember when they changed the cartoon? I think the second season had a new theme and different people doing Bill and Ted’s voices.
That ruined my enjoyment of that cartoon. It used to be awesome!
The second season has the guys fromt he live action tv show doing the voice and a diff animation studio – so yeah it sucked. But the first season is awesome! Everyone fromt he movie reprises the voice roles and they do a little “Forrest Gumping” during their time travels – where they’re responsible for certain historical events lol plus that theme song is kick-ass!!
“Bill and Ted’s most excellent adventures”…”Most triumphant!” lol Keanu’s line are pretty much always funny int hat show…
Righteous Expedition
Bill and Ted’s Awesome Odyssey
I would like to see Jane Weidlen and Fee Waybill in it.
Anyone else read the Keanu Reeves quote in Ted’s voice?
Haha yep.
Me too ha ha, I even put ‘be excellent to each other’ on the end
Dude I thought I was the only one. LOL
STATION!
Wonder if we find out what Station’s been up to? lol.
Um i thought thats what they did at the end of Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey?
I thought that too. Didn’t all those newspaper headlines during the credits state how Wyld Stallyns changed the world?
They did!
yeah I actually hated that part watching it recently…I was like stop before you paint yourselves in a corner lol
They did that because they wrapped things up. No more movies needed. If they’re planning on doing this, don’t negate everything that came before. I’m sure the writers know what they’re doing, but Keanu’s quote seemed like they jumbled things up.
Perhaps we will be picking up with an alternate Bill and Ted instead then? Now i’m confused…
Ahhh I’m all confused inside! It would be fun to see a new B&T but man it’s been so long since the last one. Part of the appeal of the original movies were that B&T were these dopy kids (airheads?). hard to imagine they’d still behave that way at their current age. if they don’t, I don’t see the appeal, if they do, then we get to see grown men act dopy. Plus Keanu Reeves has had a good career since then it’ll be hard to see Neo acting like that again. I hope they can pull it off!
I thought they wrote the song in the future….then came back to sing it at the end of Bogus Journey. They looked like ZZ Top and sang “God Gave Rock and Roll To You”. Have the writers and actors forgotten this or did I see something wrong?
That was a KISS song, not Bill & Ted’s, its been a long time since I saw the movie, but I know without a doubt that the song was KISS.
It is a KISS song that actors in a movie pretended to perform while being filmed. Then it appears on-screen to look like Wyld Stallyns are singing the song. It’s “movie magic.”
True but in the movie it was Bill & Ted’s song that put the universe in harmony!
We never actually heard Bill and Ted’s song! We heard the KISS song while they performed theirs for the audience. It was never directly inferred that they were performing “God gave rock and roll to you”.
They lip synced it. I think that’s inferred
I can’t remember them actually lip syncing to that song.(and I’ve seen it plenty) I always assumed that their song was just to fantastic to be heard. After all, you can write a story about the best song ever written, but actually writing that song is something else. Eg: Tenacious D, Tribute
Perhaps you’re right. I haven’t seen the movie in years (I owned it on VHS if that’s any indicator). But for some reason I can picture Ted looking over his shoulder at Bill and singing the lyrics. Perhaps I am completely off base. I’d prefer your way though…and if that’s what they did, pure genius. Also, Tenacious D should cameo in the new movie.
yes they are saying that thats what is set up to happen in the regular time line future of bogus journey, but since its a time travel movie, anything can happen and obviously there will be an event that alters that time line and sends then into an alternate reality where they never write the song that unites the world
I guarantee you we’ll see a band like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, U2, etc. in this film as they try to find the spark of creativity.
OH MY GOD!!! YES!!!!!!!
EXCELLENT!!!
hopefully we’ll see the future – where they legalized weed but made hip hop illegal. lol
Dream on grandpa! (^-^)
I think it’d be funny to see them travelling through time in the phone booth and in the background you see a delorean fying by lol
Or they land on top of the TARDIS.