2020’s Bill & Ted Face the Music felt like a fitting enough way to bid a bodacious farewell to the titular time traveling rockers. But if Alex Winter aka Bill S. Preston, Esquire, is to be believed, the pair may be partying on yet again for a Bill & Ted 4.
Appearing on The Sarah O’Connell Show, Winter said Bill & Ted 4 is already in the preliminary stages of being planned, citing trilogy writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. “The gang…we’re tinkering with a fourth movie idea that all of us like… and the guys are going to write, so we’ll see. I mean it takes us time to get these things going, and we never want to do them unless they’re great.” He went on to call the writers “super talented” but noted that “they feel the same way: it has to be right…We love [the movies] because...
Appearing on The Sarah O’Connell Show, Winter said Bill & Ted 4 is already in the preliminary stages of being planned, citing trilogy writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. “The gang…we’re tinkering with a fourth movie idea that all of us like… and the guys are going to write, so we’ll see. I mean it takes us time to get these things going, and we never want to do them unless they’re great.” He went on to call the writers “super talented” but noted that “they feel the same way: it has to be right…We love [the movies] because...
- 1/17/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
The core creative team are ‘tinkering’ with an idea for Bill & Ted 4, reveals Alex Winter.
It’s far from assured, but it seems that the creative minds behind 2020’s Bill & Ted Face The Music are playing with the idea of revisiting the series’ beloved characters once more.
Alex Winter forms one half of the titular duo, and while out on the press tour for Destroy All Neighbors, he spoke on The Sarah O’Connell Show about the prospect of re-teaming with co-star Keanu Reeves for another turn as Bill S Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan, the beloved pair of slackers who are eternally on the verge of actually doing something meaningful with their lives.
Apparently, Winter and Reeves are working with the series’ writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson to figure out if there’s another story to tell… and it looks like that might possibly be the case.
It’s far from assured, but it seems that the creative minds behind 2020’s Bill & Ted Face The Music are playing with the idea of revisiting the series’ beloved characters once more.
Alex Winter forms one half of the titular duo, and while out on the press tour for Destroy All Neighbors, he spoke on The Sarah O’Connell Show about the prospect of re-teaming with co-star Keanu Reeves for another turn as Bill S Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan, the beloved pair of slackers who are eternally on the verge of actually doing something meaningful with their lives.
Apparently, Winter and Reeves are working with the series’ writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson to figure out if there’s another story to tell… and it looks like that might possibly be the case.
- 1/17/2024
- by Dan Cooper
- Film Stories
In 1989 Orion Pictures, along with Nelson Entertainment released Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. The film was widely loved, and still is, to this day by both critics and fans alike. Because the film was so popular, spawned tons of merchandise and even had two spinoff shows…a sequel was inevitable.
This isn’t just any sequel, it’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. At the time regarded as a love it or hate it film and was considered a box office failure. So let’s go to hell, visit heaven, build some evil and good robots and face off in the Battle of Bands as we check out Bill & Ted’s bonkers follow up on this episode of Revisited.
As stated earlier, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure was released in February 1989 and became a huge success. People couldn’t get enough of the two brain dead yet incredibly...
This isn’t just any sequel, it’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. At the time regarded as a love it or hate it film and was considered a box office failure. So let’s go to hell, visit heaven, build some evil and good robots and face off in the Battle of Bands as we check out Bill & Ted’s bonkers follow up on this episode of Revisited.
As stated earlier, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure was released in February 1989 and became a huge success. People couldn’t get enough of the two brain dead yet incredibly...
- 10/7/2023
- by Ric Solomon
- JoBlo.com
We love rock & roll, and so do most moviegoers, which is why cinema is filled with heroes who get together with their friends to pound out some numbers. Whether they do it for fame and fortune or to just hang out with buddies, pop bands are inherently cinematic, tying together moving images and sound to create something spectacular. That’s particularly true of fictional groups, who often draw from real-world inspirations and transform them into moving protagonists or hated villains.
This list covers ten of the best fictional bands in cinema history. The key word here is “bands,” as we ignore solo acts, even from really good films. So Mac Sledge from Tender Mercies won’t show up, nor will Noni Jean from Beyond the Lights. Also, we’re looking at fictional groups here, so the Ramones from Rock & Roll High School don’t show up, nor do Talking Heads,...
This list covers ten of the best fictional bands in cinema history. The key word here is “bands,” as we ignore solo acts, even from really good films. So Mac Sledge from Tender Mercies won’t show up, nor will Noni Jean from Beyond the Lights. Also, we’re looking at fictional groups here, so the Ramones from Rock & Roll High School don’t show up, nor do Talking Heads,...
- 9/26/2023
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
When looked at from the outside, the premises of the first two "Bill & Ted" movies are baffling. In the first film, the title characters (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) are a pair of slacker California dudes who are more interested in their band than in studying high school history. Randomly, a visitor from the future (George Carlin) appears in a high-tech, time-traveling phone booth and announces to Bill and Ted that their band will not only become successful, but that their music will become so profound as to unite humanity and usher in a new utopia. In order to form their band, however, they will have to pass an upcoming history exam and stay in school. The Carlin character gives them the phone booth, and they travel through time, viewing history in person through their particular slacker lens. In the sequel, Bill and Ted die and traverse the afterlife...
- 3/24/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Hollywood was in the midst of its Brat Pack fervor when the director/screenwriter team of Tim Hunter and Neil Jimenez jolted moviegoers with "River's Edge." It was the grimy, dead-souled antithesis to John Hughes' peppy tales of suburban woe. The Northern California high schoolers in Hunter's film are dead-enders who, aware of their paltry worth to society, have little value for human life. When their friend John (Daniel Roebuck) claims he's murdered his girlfriend Jamie (Danyi Deats) and takes them to see her nude corpse, which he's discarded like a dog toy next to a riverbank, they do not recoil in horror. They are at most dumbstruck, and at worst eager to aid John in covering up the crime.
We should be shocked by their lack of revulsion, but Hunter lets us hang out with these kids for a good 15 minutes before taking us to Jamie. They're future burnouts...
We should be shocked by their lack of revulsion, but Hunter lets us hang out with these kids for a good 15 minutes before taking us to Jamie. They're future burnouts...
- 3/22/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Original "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" scribes Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson are almost extensions of their characters. They've written all three movies in the series, maintaining their close friendship for over forty years. From the script's first draft, the idea was less about a time-traveling history lesson and more about making a buddy movie with two lovable rockers. The SoCal duo, known as the Wyld Stallyns, didn't necessarily have to go on a grand adventure through time to be compelling. Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) wandering around the quiet suburban streets of San Dimas, California, jamming guitar and hanging out at the Circle K could've been a great mumblecore movie all on its own.
The same could be said for "Back to the Future." When Marty McFly plugs into that Gibson Ga-5T and sends himself flying through the air in a sonic blast, he already seems like your new best friend.
The same could be said for "Back to the Future." When Marty McFly plugs into that Gibson Ga-5T and sends himself flying through the air in a sonic blast, he already seems like your new best friend.
- 3/5/2023
- by Drew Tinnin
- Slash Film
Typically, Hollywood rewards sequels that are more or less similar -- if not complete retreads -- of the original. Ivan Reitman's "Ghostbusters 2" is, beat for beat, very similar to his "Ghostbusters." James Cameron's "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" has the exact same premise as his "The Terminator." A short span of brainstorming can produce myriad other examples.
As such, it's something of a minor miracle that Pete Hewitt's "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" is as bonkers as it is, and its predecessor was already plenty wild. In the previous film, Stephen Herek's "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989), the title characters were given a time-traveling phone booth from the future so that they may kidnap various historical figures and present them as their high school history final. If they failed, they would flunk out of history, be separated into different schools, and they'd have to break up their band Wyld Stallyns.
As such, it's something of a minor miracle that Pete Hewitt's "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" is as bonkers as it is, and its predecessor was already plenty wild. In the previous film, Stephen Herek's "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989), the title characters were given a time-traveling phone booth from the future so that they may kidnap various historical figures and present them as their high school history final. If they failed, they would flunk out of history, be separated into different schools, and they'd have to break up their band Wyld Stallyns.
- 1/15/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
While younger audiences may associate Keanu Reeves first and foremost with the "John Wick" movies and, in general, for playing silent, serious badasses who know kung fu and are highly skilled at shooting people in the head, he is also a pretty great comedic actor. Be it with his role in "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run," where he plays a (literal) wise sage, or with his cameo as "himself" in "Always Be My Maybe," Reeves has continued to deliver his fair share of laughs in-between his outings as Mr. Wick.
Of course, Reeves' best and most well-known comedic role is undoubtedly that of Ted "Theodore" Logan in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and its sequels, one of the greatest sci-fi comedy trilogies there are, particularly sci-fi comedy trilogies involving time-travel. As silly as they are endearing, the "Bill & Ted" films are full to the brim with great caricatures of historical figures,...
Of course, Reeves' best and most well-known comedic role is undoubtedly that of Ted "Theodore" Logan in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and its sequels, one of the greatest sci-fi comedy trilogies there are, particularly sci-fi comedy trilogies involving time-travel. As silly as they are endearing, the "Bill & Ted" films are full to the brim with great caricatures of historical figures,...
- 1/12/2023
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
Stephen Herek's time travel comedy "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" became a hit in February of 1989, attended by scads of kids charmed by the surfer-dude, innocuous-metal-loving title characters played by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, as well as the film's bonkers story about a high-tech flying phone booth that can take Bill and Ted to meet history's great figures. The premise (via Yahoo) was inspired by a standup improv game that screenwriters Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon created in their college days wherein the two of them would stage conversations between well-known historical figures and brainless SoCal beach rats. The...
The post The Original Idea For Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey Turned Into the TV Show appeared first on /Film.
The post The Original Idea For Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey Turned Into the TV Show appeared first on /Film.
- 4/20/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon have landed a series order at HBO Max for the drama “Full Circle,” Variety has learned exclusively.
The series reunites the pair after they worked together on the film “No Sudden Move,” which was released on HBO Max in July. Casey Silver, who was a producer on “No Sudden Move,” will be an executive producer on the series. Soderbergh and Solomon also previously worked together on the HBO series “Mosaic.”
“Even by Ed’s standards this is a complex narrative that manages to be both kaleidoscopic and intimate,” Soderbergh said. “Our task now is to assemble a great cast and make sure we execute at the level the scripts deserve.”
In the six-episode series, an Investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day New York City. Soderbergh will direct all six episodes and serve as executive producer.
The series reunites the pair after they worked together on the film “No Sudden Move,” which was released on HBO Max in July. Casey Silver, who was a producer on “No Sudden Move,” will be an executive producer on the series. Soderbergh and Solomon also previously worked together on the HBO series “Mosaic.”
“Even by Ed’s standards this is a complex narrative that manages to be both kaleidoscopic and intimate,” Soderbergh said. “Our task now is to assemble a great cast and make sure we execute at the level the scripts deserve.”
In the six-episode series, an Investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day New York City. Soderbergh will direct all six episodes and serve as executive producer.
- 8/25/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
It was the biggest hit in the summer of 1997. Cool, funny, and sometimes deeply weird, it was not quite like anything audiences had ever seen, even as it once again starred Will Smith opposite alien invaders a year after Independence Day. It was a crowd-pleaser that, as Agent J might say, made itself look good. In other words, Men in Black appeared destined to launch countless sequels.
Nearly 25 years later, there have been three follow-ups if you count 2019’s failed attempt at a semi-reboot within the Men in Black franchise. There’ve also been action figures, video games, a cartoon series, and a theme park ride at Universal Studios. And yet, to date there has never been a Men in Black adventure to capture the charm and ingenuity of that first movie. Sure, Men in Black II made money, but a quick perusal of its Rotten Tomatoes score—currently at...
Nearly 25 years later, there have been three follow-ups if you count 2019’s failed attempt at a semi-reboot within the Men in Black franchise. There’ve also been action figures, video games, a cartoon series, and a theme park ride at Universal Studios. And yet, to date there has never been a Men in Black adventure to capture the charm and ingenuity of that first movie. Sure, Men in Black II made money, but a quick perusal of its Rotten Tomatoes score—currently at...
- 7/14/2021
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
For the longest time, a third Bill & Ted movie seemed like a most excellent pipe dream. The type of thing pals would joke about over some far out herbal pairings and good vibes. Screenwriter Ed Solomon, who co-created Bill & Ted with Chris Matheson for 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure certainly seemed surprised when last year’s threequel, Bill & Ted Face the Music, actually came to fruition. And when we caught up with him for this month’s theatrical and HBO Max release of No Sudden Move, his appreciation of the fans who he credits with getting the third movie made is also why he remains undecided about doing a fourth adventure… even as he leaves the door cracked open.
“Will there be another?” Solomon tells us. “I’m not sure. I initially thought we were done on Face the Music, but if we could come up with something that was really worth doing,...
“Will there be another?” Solomon tells us. “I’m not sure. I initially thought we were done on Face the Music, but if we could come up with something that was really worth doing,...
- 7/13/2021
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
The future awaits when “Bill & Ted Face the Music” arrives on 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital. Directed by Dean Parisot and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, “Bill & Ted Face the Music” see’s Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter (the “Bill & Ted” films) reprise their roles as the respective title characters in the third film in the Bill & Ted franchise. To mark the release, we’ve been given 3 Blu-ray copies to give away.
The stakes are higher than ever for the time-travelling exploits of William ‘Bill’ S. Preston Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore ‘Ted’ Logan (Keanu Reeves). Yet to fulfil their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures,...
The stakes are higher than ever for the time-travelling exploits of William ‘Bill’ S. Preston Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore ‘Ted’ Logan (Keanu Reeves). Yet to fulfil their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures,...
- 1/24/2021
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Kid Cudi, Kristen Schaal, Anthony Carrigan, Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mays, Jillian Bell, Holland Taylor, Beck Bennett, William Sadler, Hal Landon Jr., Amy Stoch | Written by Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon | Directed by Dean Parisot
To fulfil their rock and roll destiny the now middle aged best friends, William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Theodore “Ted” Logan, set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends – to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
Growing old sucks. As kids we have hopes and dreams that we think we can accomplish, we’re told by our parents that we...
To fulfil their rock and roll destiny the now middle aged best friends, William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Theodore “Ted” Logan, set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends – to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
Growing old sucks. As kids we have hopes and dreams that we think we can accomplish, we’re told by our parents that we...
- 1/21/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Los Angeles, Dec 8 (Ians) Actor Alex Winter does not mind working on a fourth part of the hit franchise, Bill & Ted.
He reprised his popular role as Bill Preston for the first time in nearly three decades in the recent Bill & Ted Face The Music, and he revealed that he and co-star Keanu Reeves would be up for another film in the franchise, although there are no plans currently in the works, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
"We don't need to do another. We don't particularly feel there needs to be another one, but we would enjoy making another one. That's really the honest answer. There's nothing more to it," said Winter.
"We are not currently planning another one. Certainly, no one has come to us and asked us to do another one. I don't know where those chips are gonna fall. I can tell you that, if there was interest in making another one,...
He reprised his popular role as Bill Preston for the first time in nearly three decades in the recent Bill & Ted Face The Music, and he revealed that he and co-star Keanu Reeves would be up for another film in the franchise, although there are no plans currently in the works, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
"We don't need to do another. We don't particularly feel there needs to be another one, but we would enjoy making another one. That's really the honest answer. There's nothing more to it," said Winter.
"We are not currently planning another one. Certainly, no one has come to us and asked us to do another one. I don't know where those chips are gonna fall. I can tell you that, if there was interest in making another one,...
- 12/8/2020
- by IANS
- GlamSham
Los Angeles, Dec 8 (Ians) Actor Alex Winter does not mind working on a fourth part of the hit franchise, Bill & Ted.
He reprised his popular role as Bill Preston for the first time in nearly three decades in the recent Bill & Ted Face The Music, and he revealed that he and co-star Keanu Reeves would be up for another film in the franchise, although there are no plans currently in the works, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
"We don't need to do another. We don't particularly feel there needs to be another one, but we would enjoy making another one. That's really the honest answer. There's nothing more to it," said Winter.
"We are not currently planning another one. Certainly, no one has come to us and asked us to do another one. I don't know where those chips are gonna fall. I can tell you that, if there was interest in making another one,...
He reprised his popular role as Bill Preston for the first time in nearly three decades in the recent Bill & Ted Face The Music, and he revealed that he and co-star Keanu Reeves would be up for another film in the franchise, although there are no plans currently in the works, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
"We don't need to do another. We don't particularly feel there needs to be another one, but we would enjoy making another one. That's really the honest answer. There's nothing more to it," said Winter.
"We are not currently planning another one. Certainly, no one has come to us and asked us to do another one. I don't know where those chips are gonna fall. I can tell you that, if there was interest in making another one,...
- 12/8/2020
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
It took almost 30 years for Bill & Ted Face the Music to come together, with the iconic slacker duo spending a lot more time trapped in development hell than they ever did crammed into a phone booth trying to save the world. For the longest while, it appeared as though the movie would never happen given the number of false starts it endured over the years, and when the third installment finally arrived, it was right in the middle of a global pandemic.
Of course, there’s always an air of trepidation surrounding sequels that debut so long after the last film, and audiences have been burned plenty of times before in the past, but it would be fair to say that Face the Music lived up to expectations. The wholesome, heartwarming and hilarious comedy was enthusiastically received by longtime fans, newbies and critics alike, currently holding an impressive Rotten Tomatoes...
Of course, there’s always an air of trepidation surrounding sequels that debut so long after the last film, and audiences have been burned plenty of times before in the past, but it would be fair to say that Face the Music lived up to expectations. The wholesome, heartwarming and hilarious comedy was enthusiastically received by longtime fans, newbies and critics alike, currently holding an impressive Rotten Tomatoes...
- 12/7/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
Happy Cyber Monday, dear readers, and welcome to the next installment of Daily Dead’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide. Today, I’ll be recapping a handful of online sales that are still underway today (and a few new ones), and going through the year’s best home media releases as well. Amazon has also been sporadically offering up tons of deals on movies already this shopping season, so be sure to keep your eye on their deals every day to save yourself some cash whenever possible.
Happy shopping, everyone!
Cyber Monday:
Last week, we gave you the skinny on a ton of horror-related sites that were having Black Friday deals, and here’s a quick look at the sites that are still offering up discounts through today:
Mondo: Mondo’s Holiday Sale runs through tonight at midnight Cst.
Fright Rags: The Fright Rags Black Friday Sale ends tonight at 11:59 pm Est.
Happy shopping, everyone!
Cyber Monday:
Last week, we gave you the skinny on a ton of horror-related sites that were having Black Friday deals, and here’s a quick look at the sites that are still offering up discounts through today:
Mondo: Mondo’s Holiday Sale runs through tonight at midnight Cst.
Fright Rags: The Fright Rags Black Friday Sale ends tonight at 11:59 pm Est.
- 11/30/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
November 10th looks to be an extremely busy day for home media releases, as we have a ton of horror and sci-fi headed home this Tuesday. Two of this writer’s favorite films of 2020 are being released this week—Bill & Ted Face the Music and Spontaneous—and if you’re looking for some classic genre offerings, Scream Factory is keeping busy with a terrifying trifecta of releases: Brides of Dracula: Collector’s Edition, War of the Colossal Beast, and How to Make a Monster.
Giallo fans will want to pick up Cult Epic’s Blu-ray for Death Laid an Egg on Tuesday, and Kino Lorber is showing some love to Play Misty for Me, too. Arrow Video is also doing a few re-releases this week, including American Horror Project: Volume One and The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast, and if you somehow haven’t had a chance to check it out on Shudder yet,...
Giallo fans will want to pick up Cult Epic’s Blu-ray for Death Laid an Egg on Tuesday, and Kino Lorber is showing some love to Play Misty for Me, too. Arrow Video is also doing a few re-releases this week, including American Horror Project: Volume One and The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast, and if you somehow haven’t had a chance to check it out on Shudder yet,...
- 11/9/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Eddie Van Halen, the guitar legend who died Tuesday at 65, has received tributes from countless rockers and celebrities — including the fictional Wyld Stallyns from “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.”
“Bill & Ted” writer Ed Solomon said that he and co-writer Chris Matheson desperately wanted Van Halen to make a cameo of some kind in this year’s sequel “Bill & Ted Face the Music” and that his music greatly shaped the narrative direction of the film.
“Super sad to hear about the passing of Eddie Van Halen. He was a big influence on Chris and me as we were writing ‘Bill & Ted.’ In fact, when director Stephen Herek was reading the script he got three pages in, stopped, put on ‘1984’ and resumed. We wanted the movie to be a cinematic ‘Jump,'” Solomon wrote on Twitter. “We tried to get him to do something — anything — in ‘Face the Music,’ but they...
“Bill & Ted” writer Ed Solomon said that he and co-writer Chris Matheson desperately wanted Van Halen to make a cameo of some kind in this year’s sequel “Bill & Ted Face the Music” and that his music greatly shaped the narrative direction of the film.
“Super sad to hear about the passing of Eddie Van Halen. He was a big influence on Chris and me as we were writing ‘Bill & Ted.’ In fact, when director Stephen Herek was reading the script he got three pages in, stopped, put on ‘1984’ and resumed. We wanted the movie to be a cinematic ‘Jump,'” Solomon wrote on Twitter. “We tried to get him to do something — anything — in ‘Face the Music,’ but they...
- 10/6/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
This Bill and Ted Face the Music article contains spoilers.
There’s no other film right now that offers up as welcome an escape from 2020’s awfulness marathon as Bill and Ted Face the Music. The film is an extraordinarily satisfying conclusion to the Bill and Ted saga (and one that leaves the door open for the continuing adventures of a new generation of Wyld Stallyns) to be sure, but perhaps the most surprising thing about it is how Keanu Reeves and Alex Winters have mellowed and matured their iconic characters without sacrificing any of the comedy we’ve come to expect from this saga.
The creative team that brought Bill and Ted Face the Music to life are returning writers/co-creators Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, and director Dean Parisot– best known for helming 1999’s sci-fi comedy masterpiece Galaxy Quest. In conjunction with the film’s U.K. opening...
There’s no other film right now that offers up as welcome an escape from 2020’s awfulness marathon as Bill and Ted Face the Music. The film is an extraordinarily satisfying conclusion to the Bill and Ted saga (and one that leaves the door open for the continuing adventures of a new generation of Wyld Stallyns) to be sure, but perhaps the most surprising thing about it is how Keanu Reeves and Alex Winters have mellowed and matured their iconic characters without sacrificing any of the comedy we’ve come to expect from this saga.
The creative team that brought Bill and Ted Face the Music to life are returning writers/co-creators Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, and director Dean Parisot– best known for helming 1999’s sci-fi comedy masterpiece Galaxy Quest. In conjunction with the film’s U.K. opening...
- 9/17/2020
- by Chris Cummins
- Den of Geek
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are joined by lookalike daughters to party on through time and save the world, with the help of Mozart, Hendrix and Louis Armstrong
Not excellent maybe, but by no means bogus either, this cheerful Bill & Ted threequel brings the story of our two laidback heroes up to the melancholy autumn of their middle age.
Alex Winter is Bill – and he’s eerily the same – and Keanu Reeves is Ted; though with that dark mop of hair framing his now rather Easter-Island-stern face, Ted looks more forbidding to me, as if carrying the baggage of Neo (from Matrix) and hitman John Wick. But with his weirdly lovable awkward gestures, Ted clearly still has no idea how or why to move his arms. Like the other two films, this is written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, and the director is Dean Parisot, renowned for the sci-fi comedy classic Galaxy Quest.
Not excellent maybe, but by no means bogus either, this cheerful Bill & Ted threequel brings the story of our two laidback heroes up to the melancholy autumn of their middle age.
Alex Winter is Bill – and he’s eerily the same – and Keanu Reeves is Ted; though with that dark mop of hair framing his now rather Easter-Island-stern face, Ted looks more forbidding to me, as if carrying the baggage of Neo (from Matrix) and hitman John Wick. But with his weirdly lovable awkward gestures, Ted clearly still has no idea how or why to move his arms. Like the other two films, this is written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, and the director is Dean Parisot, renowned for the sci-fi comedy classic Galaxy Quest.
- 9/15/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
“The only true wisdom comes in knowing that you know nothing.”
-Socrates
There’s a reason screenwriters Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson made a point of highlighting that quote in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989), the classic science fiction comedy adventure that kicked off a most bodacious series of joyous cinematic quests. Like another surprisingly insightful comedy about a different kind of pop culture-fanatic airhead, Being There (1979), the Bill & Ted franchise celebrates the simple wisdom embedded deep within our heroes’ blissful ignorance.
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991), thanks to its absolutely wild metaphysical adventure, incredible creatures (see below), comic ingenuity, heavy stakes, one-of-a-kind adversaries, and killer metal soundtrack, remains the favorite franchise entry of this critic. The saga returned last month, just in time to serve as something of a warm and fuzzy hug for one of the worst years in recent American history, with the reunion movie its stars never expected to materialize,...
-Socrates
There’s a reason screenwriters Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson made a point of highlighting that quote in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989), the classic science fiction comedy adventure that kicked off a most bodacious series of joyous cinematic quests. Like another surprisingly insightful comedy about a different kind of pop culture-fanatic airhead, Being There (1979), the Bill & Ted franchise celebrates the simple wisdom embedded deep within our heroes’ blissful ignorance.
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991), thanks to its absolutely wild metaphysical adventure, incredible creatures (see below), comic ingenuity, heavy stakes, one-of-a-kind adversaries, and killer metal soundtrack, remains the favorite franchise entry of this critic. The saga returned last month, just in time to serve as something of a warm and fuzzy hug for one of the worst years in recent American history, with the reunion movie its stars never expected to materialize,...
- 9/14/2020
- by Alex Kirschenbaum
- Trailers from Hell
Let’s time travel back to 2004. Bill & Ted writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson were working on the stop-motion animated Automatons, a wildly absurd comedy about a pair of neurotic robots who were built to kill Hitler, only to be buried at the bottom of the ocean and emerge 70 years too late. It was the kind of […]
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- 9/4/2020
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
First their adventure was excellent. Then their journey was totally bogus.
Now our favourite metal-heads are facing the music
Directed by Dean Parisot and written by Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, Bill & Ted: Face the Music is set decades after Bogus Journey. The Wyld Stallions were meant to save the world with a song but instead, they have faded into obscurity. On top of this, their marriages are falling apart. It is about to get much worse, however, as an agent from the future tells them that if they don’t invent a song to unite the whole world, reality could crumble.
Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves take on the titular roles once more in a movie that is nice, if albeit a little uninspiring. The aged pair tackle a version of their characters who are way past their prime but the actors slip into the characters with a scary ease.
Now our favourite metal-heads are facing the music
Directed by Dean Parisot and written by Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, Bill & Ted: Face the Music is set decades after Bogus Journey. The Wyld Stallions were meant to save the world with a song but instead, they have faded into obscurity. On top of this, their marriages are falling apart. It is about to get much worse, however, as an agent from the future tells them that if they don’t invent a song to unite the whole world, reality could crumble.
Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves take on the titular roles once more in a movie that is nice, if albeit a little uninspiring. The aged pair tackle a version of their characters who are way past their prime but the actors slip into the characters with a scary ease.
- 9/2/2020
- by Sarah Cook
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Kid Cudi, Kristen Schaal, Anthony Carrigan, Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mays, Jillian Bell, Holland Taylor, Beck Bennett, William Sadler, Hal Landon Jr., Amy Stoch | Written by Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon | Directed by Dean Parisot
To fulfil their rock and roll destiny the now middle aged best friends, William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Theodore “Ted” Logan, set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends – to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
Growing old sucks. As kids we have hopes and dreams that we think we can accomplish, we’re told by our parents that we...
To fulfil their rock and roll destiny the now middle aged best friends, William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Theodore “Ted” Logan, set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends – to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
Growing old sucks. As kids we have hopes and dreams that we think we can accomplish, we’re told by our parents that we...
- 8/31/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
This Bill & Ted Face the Music review is spoiler-free. Excellent.
Both Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey reside in that unique cinematic grey area somewhere between blockbuster and cult classic. It’s a sweet spot that these characters — created by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, who return to write this third outing — have inhabited for over thirty years, with the second movie hitting theaters way back in 1991. While the height of Bill & Ted-mania was in an era when grunge when was just getting warmed up (and thereby making the leads’ rock/metal-worship feel quaint), the films maintained a not-unsubstantial pop culture footprint that was eventually overshadowed by Keanu Reeves’ ascent into superstardom. To be clear though: Reeves never turned his back on Ted. Over the years he maintained a friendship with Alex Winter — it is beyond satisfying to know that Bill & Ted are close...
Both Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey reside in that unique cinematic grey area somewhere between blockbuster and cult classic. It’s a sweet spot that these characters — created by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, who return to write this third outing — have inhabited for over thirty years, with the second movie hitting theaters way back in 1991. While the height of Bill & Ted-mania was in an era when grunge when was just getting warmed up (and thereby making the leads’ rock/metal-worship feel quaint), the films maintained a not-unsubstantial pop culture footprint that was eventually overshadowed by Keanu Reeves’ ascent into superstardom. To be clear though: Reeves never turned his back on Ted. Over the years he maintained a friendship with Alex Winter — it is beyond satisfying to know that Bill & Ted are close...
- 8/29/2020
- by Chris Cummins
- Den of Geek
Chicago – It’s time for Round Three, 29 years after the second film. “Bill & Ted Face the Music” opened August 28th, 2020 in theaters and VOD platforms. Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, reviewed the film during the Eddie Volkman Show (Star 96.7 FM) in Joliet, Illinois.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
“Bill & Ted Face the Music” presents the former teenage heroes (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) as middle aged men, failing to get their band Wyld Stallyns off the ground since their heroic number one song in the second film. The future is represented by Kelly (Kristen Schaal), the daughter of their old mentor Rufus, and recruits the clueless duo to again create a song that this time will save reality. Oh yeah, and Bill & Ted have two daughters (Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine) helping them out.
“Bill & Ted Face the Music” is available through VOD and in theaters. See local listings for details.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
“Bill & Ted Face the Music” presents the former teenage heroes (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) as middle aged men, failing to get their band Wyld Stallyns off the ground since their heroic number one song in the second film. The future is represented by Kelly (Kristen Schaal), the daughter of their old mentor Rufus, and recruits the clueless duo to again create a song that this time will save reality. Oh yeah, and Bill & Ted have two daughters (Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine) helping them out.
“Bill & Ted Face the Music” is available through VOD and in theaters. See local listings for details.
- 8/29/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
“Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is neither excellent nor adventurous,” began The Hollywood Reporter’s pan of a film being “dumped into theaters nationwide” on Feb. 17, 1989.
So much for that: The teen stoner comedy was a cult hit out of the gate, turning Keanu Reeves, then 24, into a movie star and launching a global franchise that produced two sequels — the latest, Bill & Ted Face the Music, arrives on demand and in theaters Aug. 28 — and a Hanna-Barbera animated show.
Bill & Ted began as a spec script dreamed up by writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon,...
So much for that: The teen stoner comedy was a cult hit out of the gate, turning Keanu Reeves, then 24, into a movie star and launching a global franchise that produced two sequels — the latest, Bill & Ted Face the Music, arrives on demand and in theaters Aug. 28 — and a Hanna-Barbera animated show.
Bill & Ted began as a spec script dreamed up by writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon,...
- 8/29/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is neither excellent nor adventurous,” began The Hollywood Reporter’s pan of a film being “dumped into theaters nationwide” on Feb. 17, 1989.
So much for that: The teen stoner comedy was a cult hit out of the gate, turning Keanu Reeves, then 24, into a movie star and launching a global franchise that produced two sequels — the latest, Bill & Ted Face the Music, arrives on demand and in theaters Aug. 28 — and a Hanna-Barbera animated show.
Bill & Ted began as a spec script dreamed up by writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon,...
So much for that: The teen stoner comedy was a cult hit out of the gate, turning Keanu Reeves, then 24, into a movie star and launching a global franchise that produced two sequels — the latest, Bill & Ted Face the Music, arrives on demand and in theaters Aug. 28 — and a Hanna-Barbera animated show.
Bill & Ted began as a spec script dreamed up by writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon,...
- 8/29/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With Bill & Ted Face the Music finally upon us, it’s such a great feeling to revisit two of the most lovable characters around. There’s something special about the characters Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter brought to life (thanks to some excellent writing from Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson), something that allowed viewers to immediately latch onto the absent-minded, but well-intended metalhead duo. While many jump to the assumption that, like Cheech & Chong, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan are your run-of-the-mill, cliché-laden stoners, that’s never been the case. What drives Bill and Ted throughout the entire series isn’t smoking and scoring pot, no, it’s a sincere, genuine love for rock and roll. There is such an affinity for the music which drives them, that true to from, it takes a while to realize that your love for the music that moves you should...
- 8/28/2020
- by Jerry Smith
- DailyDead
Bill & Ted Face the Music is Out Now! Excellent! (Loud screeching guitar solo). And really, the dim time-traveling duo have returned just when we need them the most. Since first making their debut in the 1989 sleeper hit Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, these characters — portrayed with glee by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves — have become that unique thing: A sci-fi/comedy franchise that somehow is both a cult sensation and a mainstream success. Following the unexpected success of the first film, the sequel Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey was released in the summer of 1991. Fans expecting more of the same were instead treated to a rumination on life and death that featured everything from aliens to evil robot doppelgangers of our leads. But the inventiveness of Bill and Ted creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon worked against him, and the film went underappreciated during its original run.
In the nearly...
In the nearly...
- 8/28/2020
- by Chris Cummins
- Den of Geek
Long in the making sequels have been having a bit of a moment in Hollywood over the last handful of years. Properties long since thought dormant have come back to life, sometimes to great success. Now, Bill & Ted Face the Music hopes to be the latest IP to do so, with this newest effort nearly 30 years after Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (not to mention over three decades since the initial outing in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure). The franchise always leaned on creativity, but that’s in short supply here. This likely conclusion to the misadventures of the title character best friends is fan service and fan service alone, but everyone seems to know that the joke has more than worn thin. Hitting screens today, it’s a huge disappointment. The movie is the second sequel and third installment in the Bill & Ted series. Once upon a time, William “Bill” S.
- 8/28/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
[This story contains spoilers for Bill & Ted Face the Music.]
The two great ones, Bill and Ted, are back! After a decade of development, the follow-up to cult classics Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) has finally arrived in our timeline. Bill & Ted Face the Music not only sees Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprise their respective roles as Bill and Ted, but also brings back the writers of the first two films, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. The film, directed by Dean Parisot, is a worthy successor to the first two, offering the same charming ...
The two great ones, Bill and Ted, are back! After a decade of development, the follow-up to cult classics Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) has finally arrived in our timeline. Bill & Ted Face the Music not only sees Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprise their respective roles as Bill and Ted, but also brings back the writers of the first two films, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. The film, directed by Dean Parisot, is a worthy successor to the first two, offering the same charming ...
- 8/28/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
[This story contains spoilers for Bill & Ted Face the Music.]
The two great ones, Bill and Ted, are back! After a decade of development, the follow-up to cult classics Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) has finally arrived in our timeline. Bill & Ted Face the Music not only sees Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprise their respective roles as Bill and Ted, but also brings back the writers of the first two films, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. The film, directed by Dean Parisot, is a worthy successor to the first two, offering the same charming ...
The two great ones, Bill and Ted, are back! After a decade of development, the follow-up to cult classics Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) has finally arrived in our timeline. Bill & Ted Face the Music not only sees Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprise their respective roles as Bill and Ted, but also brings back the writers of the first two films, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. The film, directed by Dean Parisot, is a worthy successor to the first two, offering the same charming ...
- 8/28/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The first thing Keanu Reeves said to me when we sat down to do an interview on the Phoenix set of “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” in April 1987 was simple.
“If I’m really boring, just print anything you want,” he said. “Make it interesting.”
In fact, I didn’t print anything — not because he was boring, but because I wasn’t in Phoenix 33 years ago to write about Reeves and his co-star, Alex Winter. At that point, the two actors weren’t very well known, and the movie itself was years away from becoming a cult hit that spawned two sequels, including the new “Bill & Ted Face the Music.”
Rolling Stone had sent me to Phoenix to cover the opening-night show on U2’s tour to promote the band’s breakthrough album, “The Joshua Tree.” But a friend of mine was the unit publicist on “Bill & Ted,” and...
“If I’m really boring, just print anything you want,” he said. “Make it interesting.”
In fact, I didn’t print anything — not because he was boring, but because I wasn’t in Phoenix 33 years ago to write about Reeves and his co-star, Alex Winter. At that point, the two actors weren’t very well known, and the movie itself was years away from becoming a cult hit that spawned two sequels, including the new “Bill & Ted Face the Music.”
Rolling Stone had sent me to Phoenix to cover the opening-night show on U2’s tour to promote the band’s breakthrough album, “The Joshua Tree.” But a friend of mine was the unit publicist on “Bill & Ted,” and...
- 8/28/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
It’s been three decades between gigs for those Wyld Stallyns William “Bill” S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore “Ted” Logan (Keanu Reeves). Was it worth the wait to once again see these two knuckleheads be excellent to each other? Totally, dudes. When Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure debuted in 1989, The New York Times called it “painfully inept.” To paraphrase Bill, the movie, in which the duo traveled back in time to pass their high school history final (with some help from Socrates, Napoleon, Joan of Arc, and Abe...
- 8/27/2020
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
As someone who has probably watched the first two Bill & Ted films hundreds of times at this point in her life, Bill & Ted Face the Music was absolutely everything I was hoping it would be, and then nothing I could have ever possibly expected. It’s just an absolutely beguiling cinematic experience that does a wonderful job of taking elements of Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey that we all know and love, and blending them into this new story that takes our beloved Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) in new, unexpected directions, all while introducing us to some new characters that you can’t help but fall in love with along the way. Suffice to say, I found Bill & Ted Face the Music to be a real delight and it was exactly the kind of movie-watching experience that I needed right about now.
Face the Music catches us...
Face the Music catches us...
- 8/27/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
It doesn’t take a rock star to realize that Bill and Ted are not the heroes we need now — but these musically inclined time-hopping doofuses who inspired a futuristic utopia in a pair of cult hits 30 years ago weren’t the heroes we needed then, either. “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” a cheerful new entry that follows the wide-eyed and empty-headed buddies into middle age, understands that well.
The delight of this long-gestating follow-up involves the ironic disconnect at the core of the franchise. Such blinkered stupidity couldn’t possibly save the universe, but there’s a fundamental joy to pretending otherwise. Resurrecting the fantasy of the earlier entries, “Bill & Ted Face the Music” doesn’t devolve into a pure nostalgia play. It’s just another “Bill & Ted” movie — kooky, surreal, and completely adherent to its own playbook. And that’s why, more or less, it works.
The delight of this long-gestating follow-up involves the ironic disconnect at the core of the franchise. Such blinkered stupidity couldn’t possibly save the universe, but there’s a fundamental joy to pretending otherwise. Resurrecting the fantasy of the earlier entries, “Bill & Ted Face the Music” doesn’t devolve into a pure nostalgia play. It’s just another “Bill & Ted” movie — kooky, surreal, and completely adherent to its own playbook. And that’s why, more or less, it works.
- 8/27/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
For a movie in which the world could end at any moment, “Bill & Ted Face the Music” is awfully sweet and cheery.
And for that, we have to thank Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan, who 30 years ago were the sweetest and cheeriest of teen heroes and are now hanging onto that into middle age. They’re not the smartest of heroes, of course, but they know what works for them: As Ted says at one point in this movie, “Maybe we should always not know what we’re doing!”
But “Bill & Ted Face the Music” does know what it’s doing, which is to preserve the essence of the characters played by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves even as it dumps a most unpleasant midlife crisis and an even more heinous threat to reality as we know on their still-shaggy heads.
Written by original “Bill...
And for that, we have to thank Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan, who 30 years ago were the sweetest and cheeriest of teen heroes and are now hanging onto that into middle age. They’re not the smartest of heroes, of course, but they know what works for them: As Ted says at one point in this movie, “Maybe we should always not know what we’re doing!”
But “Bill & Ted Face the Music” does know what it’s doing, which is to preserve the essence of the characters played by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves even as it dumps a most unpleasant midlife crisis and an even more heinous threat to reality as we know on their still-shaggy heads.
Written by original “Bill...
- 8/27/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Review: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Reunite for a Most Excellent Sequel
“Bill & Ted Face the Music” has a high-fluff effervescence. It’s about how Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves), those chuckle-brained metal heads who speak like Jeff Spicoli with a thesaurus, have just 77 minutes to travel through time and get the song — from themselves! Because they wrote it already! Whoa!! — that will unite humanity and save reality as we know it. As they trip further and further into the future, they keep meeting older versions of themselves, a variation on the doubling-up-of-identity-through-space-time stunt that the first two “Bill and Ted” films played with, only here it gets a major metaphysical stoned workout. Meanwhile, Bill and Ted’s respective daughters, Thea (Samara Weaving) and Billie (Brigitte Lundy-Paine), who are of course chips off the old blockhead, go back in time to gather a band of musicians that includes Louis Armstrong, Jimi Hendrix, Mozart, and Kid Cudi.
That sounds like...
That sounds like...
- 8/27/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
“Bill & Ted Face the Music” is the long-awaited conclusion to to an unlikely teen comedy franchise that launched the careers of Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. The original two movies have over time developed a cult fanbase and have their DNA in numerous slacker comedy duos throughout the ’90s and beyond. But did anyone think it would actually nearly three decades for a reunion to happen? Whoa.
In fact if you ask Reeves and Winter — and we did — they’d say they really didn’t think it would ever happen at all, despite the repeated efforts of producer Scott Kroopf, writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon and director Dean Parisot, to bring all the pieces together over the last 10 years. And the new movie even plays with the idea that we’ve been away from Bill & Ted for so long, with each of them now middle-aged dudes with families...
In fact if you ask Reeves and Winter — and we did — they’d say they really didn’t think it would ever happen at all, despite the repeated efforts of producer Scott Kroopf, writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon and director Dean Parisot, to bring all the pieces together over the last 10 years. And the new movie even plays with the idea that we’ve been away from Bill & Ted for so long, with each of them now middle-aged dudes with families...
- 8/27/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Thought ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Was ‘Never Going to Happen’ (Video)
Just like Bill S. Preston and Ted “Theodore” Logan wonder if they’ll ever write that perfect song to unite humanity, Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves spent years wondering if “Bill & Ted Face the Music” would ever get made — and they nearly gave up hope.
The long-awaited reunion between Reeves and Winter is finally here with “Bill & Ted Face the Music” opening on Friday, and the stars of the film told TheWrap it was only recently that all the pieces finally clicked to get the Wyld Stallyns back together.
“Not that long ago,” Reeves told TheWrap. “All of these things didn’t really come together, except for Al, like two years ago?”
“Really right before pre-pro. We got close to getting it off the ground, it would go away,” Winter added. “Keanu and I were very busy with other stuff, and we told everyone involved, ‘If it’s happening,...
The long-awaited reunion between Reeves and Winter is finally here with “Bill & Ted Face the Music” opening on Friday, and the stars of the film told TheWrap it was only recently that all the pieces finally clicked to get the Wyld Stallyns back together.
“Not that long ago,” Reeves told TheWrap. “All of these things didn’t really come together, except for Al, like two years ago?”
“Really right before pre-pro. We got close to getting it off the ground, it would go away,” Winter added. “Keanu and I were very busy with other stuff, and we told everyone involved, ‘If it’s happening,...
- 8/27/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
If Chris Matheson could go back to 1987 when he and Ed Solomon were first writing the screenplay for Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, he would tell himself, “Don’t write that gay joke.” Even while trying to seriously ponder what he would tell his 26-year-old self, Matheson can’t help but crack a joke, which pretty much […]
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- 8/27/2020
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
A nearly 30-year wait is almost over for Bill & Ted fans, as the release of the third film in the series, Face the Music, is quickly approaching the finish line. For this writer, who has been a fan of these characters and this world ever since she was 11 years old, I personally could not be happier to have this one last cinematic romp to enjoy, especially now.
I was even more honored to recently chat with one of the men behind the characters of Bill and Ted, co-writer Ed Solomon, who first dreamt up the time travelers back in the 1980s alongside Chris Matheson. During the recent press day for Bill & Ted Face the Music, I spoke with Solomon about the inspiration behind this latest story, the challenges of balancing the film’s ambitious storylines, and how he’s come to embrace his legacy as one of the creators of...
I was even more honored to recently chat with one of the men behind the characters of Bill and Ted, co-writer Ed Solomon, who first dreamt up the time travelers back in the 1980s alongside Chris Matheson. During the recent press day for Bill & Ted Face the Music, I spoke with Solomon about the inspiration behind this latest story, the challenges of balancing the film’s ambitious storylines, and how he’s come to embrace his legacy as one of the creators of...
- 8/27/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
There’s no reason Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure should have worked like it did in 1989. A comedy about two sweetly stupid buds who time travel through history? Abraham Lincoln espousing, “Party on, dudes”? Air guitar? Of course, the trick of the movie is that it only pretends to be dumb and is actually made by very intelligent people who knew exactly what they had on their hands. It’s a smart, funny script, well-directed, and performed with maximum charm by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves in star-making roles. As much of a miracle as the movie is, there’s even less reason that the 1991 sequel should exist, much less that it should be even more ambitious, more imaginative, and, dare I say, better than its predecessor. And yet that’s exactly what Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey is.
There are a dozen worlds and hundreds of pitch meetings in...
There are a dozen worlds and hundreds of pitch meetings in...
- 8/26/2020
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
A few days before the release of “Bill and Ted Face the Music,” Steven Soderbergh was on a Zoom call with Alex Winter, and decided to turn it into a job interview. The filmmaker served as an executive producer on “Bill and Ted Face the Music,” the long-awaited third entry in the cult saga of two hard-rocking pals who travel through history to unite the world through music. The project took over a decade to get off the ground, and resulted in Winter — who left acting for documentary filmmaking years ago — returning to play the iconic doofus opposite Keanu Reeves that launched both of their careers 30 years ago. Winter even resumed acting classes to get back in the groove, and Soderbergh took note.
“Alex,” the filmmaker said, looking into his screen. “Are you available to me?” Winter chuckled. “Steven,” he said, “I will always be available to you.”
For all...
“Alex,” the filmmaker said, looking into his screen. “Are you available to me?” Winter chuckled. “Steven,” he said, “I will always be available to you.”
For all...
- 8/26/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The third “Bill & Ted” movie is here at last.
Released 31 years after “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and directed by Dean Parisot, “Bill & Ted Face the Music” sees the return of Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves as Bill and Ted, now middle-aged former rock stars who are warned by a visitor from the future that they have just 78 minutes to create a song that will save the world — and the universe — from obliteration. With the aid of their families, they time travel to cobble together a band of history’s greatest musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Louis Armstrong and Mozart, to help them fulfill their destiny.
“We never intended to make a third,” Winter says during a joint interview with Reeves on Wednesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “We never felt the world particularly needed a third, but when we were pitched this idea...
Released 31 years after “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and directed by Dean Parisot, “Bill & Ted Face the Music” sees the return of Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves as Bill and Ted, now middle-aged former rock stars who are warned by a visitor from the future that they have just 78 minutes to create a song that will save the world — and the universe — from obliteration. With the aid of their families, they time travel to cobble together a band of history’s greatest musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Louis Armstrong and Mozart, to help them fulfill their destiny.
“We never intended to make a third,” Winter says during a joint interview with Reeves on Wednesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “We never felt the world particularly needed a third, but when we were pitched this idea...
- 8/26/2020
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Galaxy Quest Dean Parisot’s Bill and Ted Face the Music with Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves hits theaters this Friday. And today, franchise creators Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson say the film will be Bill and Ted’s final adventure. Solomon tells ComicBook.com: “We’re good to stand down at this point, and so we told the […] More...
- 8/25/2020
- by Mike Sprague
- DreadCentral.com
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