"Bill & Ted Face the Music" writer reveals some bodacious details about the sequel

[Venomousbeetle]

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[quote]Bill & Ted Face the Music will reunite us with Bill S. Preston Esquire (Alex Winter) and Ted Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves) as middle aged family men, but according to Solomon, their journey back to the big screen has been more difficult than a game of chess with the grim reaper.

“We have been working for almost 10 years to get this thing made; Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, Chris Matheson, me… we have a director – Dean Parisot, who did [b]Galaxy Quest[/b]– Steven Soderbergh is one of our producers. We have a wonderful assembly of people.

“We have a script that we really are proud of, that we worked very hard on, that we’ve done many iterations of – and we did it on spec, meaning we spent years working on it because we wanted to get it right, creatively.

“This is not, ‘Hey let’s all cash-in on the Bill & Ted thing for money’ – this is the opposite. This is, ‘We love these characters, they’ve been with us for our whole lives’ – Chris and me, and Alex and Keanu – and we wanted to visit them again as middle-aged men. We thought it would be really fun, and funny, and sweet.

Solomon also spoke at length about how the script would incorporate Rufus, with Bill & Ted travelling back in time in order to interact with their young selves and George Carlin’s character using footage from Excellent Adventure.

[b]“There’s actually a scene – one of my favourite scenes in the whole movie – where middle-aged, 50-year-old Bill and Ted return to the Circle K and see their teen selves and Rufus, and actually interact with their teenage selves, played by their actual teenage selves.”[/b]

Finally, Solomon went on to discuss the frustrations in getting their script the greenlight, citing the [b]financiers desire for a reboot with teenage kids rather than a sequel[/b], and the worry that because the original was a cult hit, there really wouldn’t be the audience to justify the expenditure.[/quote]

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[Borealis]

[QUOTE]financiers desire for a reboot with teenage kids rather than a sequel[/QUOTE]

:sick:

edit: past joke reactions, the plot of Bill and Ted is so 80s it would be hard to adapt to a reboot.

[LeonS]

Bogus Journey was really so-so for me but I love Excellent Adventure. Really hope the sequel is good

[Venomousbeetle]

[QUOTE=LeonS;53080908]Bogus Journey was really so-so for me but I love Excellent Adventure. Really hope the sequel is good[/QUOTE]

They've been doing quite a few comic books lately, (Most Triumphant Return, Go To Hell, Save the Universe) that serve as immediate sequels that have been really good. They don't take place in their adulthood, its almost picking up where Bogus Journey ended, but I recommend them.

Given the names they have attached to this and their attitude my only concern is these dipshit financiers that have been fucking it up already for years.

[The_J_Hat]

[QUOTE]we have a director – Dean Parisot, who did Galaxy Quest[/QUOTE]

Say no more.

[Venomousbeetle]

I also hope they re-release the Excellent Adventures cartoons because I've caught a few online here and there and some episodes are actually voiced by Keanu and Alex, and were quite entertaining

[Zillamaster55]

[QUOTE=TheBorealis;53080907]:sick:

edit: past joke reactions, the plot of Bill and Ted is so 80s it would be hard to adapt to a reboot.[/QUOTE]

They could have it be a running gag of them being out-of-touch older guys wanting to reconnect with their past, but they are stuck in the 80s while everyone else has moved on. IDK

[Venomousbeetle]

[QUOTE=TheBorealis;53080907]:sick:

edit: past joke reactions, the plot of Bill and Ted is so 80s it would be hard to adapt to a reboot.[/QUOTE]

from reddit:

"The people who want to see this movie are interested in how they've evolved. I wouldn't give a shit if they rebooted the story to feature two jumpy Disney Channel teens who send air guitar emojis to each other in the hopes of saving the world with an app they must develop to pass computer class."

[Borealis]

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;53080929]They could have it be a running gag of them being out-of-touch older guys wanting to reconnect with their past, but they are stuck in the 80s while everyone else has moved on. IDK[/QUOTE]

Yeah the sequel could be good, but I think a teenage reboot would be hard because look at the plot of the first one, it's so 80s "teenage slackers go back in time to make a history report because if they pass their music will usher a utopia" :v:

[Corndog Ninja]

[QUOTE=LeonS;53080908]Bogus Journey was really so-so for me but I love Excellent Adventure. Really hope the sequel is good[/QUOTE]

I respect them a lot for the insanity of Bogus Journey. It would have been so easy to do another excellent adventure rehash - "Bill and Ted have aced their history exam, but now they need to pass... the SATs!!" but instead they went bonkers with a story about evil robot us-es, hell and seances, and genius fusing aliens, and I like to think the world is much richer for it.

[Venomousbeetle]

Really only thing wrong with Bogus Journey is it looks a little off somehow in a way that's hard to pin down, production wise. Lighting or cameras or effects, something. Looks lower budget, probably could've benefited greatly from a bigger one, even though some practical effects like station look expensive

it might just be the filters they used for being dead and afterlife were kinda cheesy looking in a negative way, and that the future in the opening scene with the villain looks cheap

[Corndog Ninja]

[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;53080893][QUOTE]Finally, Solomon went on to discuss the frustrations in getting their script the greenlight, citing the financiers desire for a reboot with teenage kids rather than a sequel, and the worry that because the original was a cult hit, there really wouldn’t be the audience to justify the expenditure.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]

Also: this is obnoxious of financiers but given the way Hollywood trends are going I can't blame them.
Bill and Ted certainly has a cult fanbase, but it's definitely not a cultural touchstone like, say, [I]Back to the Future[/I]. And as much I love Keanu he's not the A-list powerhouse he was 20 years ago - apart from [I]John Wick[/I] he hasn't had a big box-office hit since... [I]The Day The Earth Stood Still[/I] (2008)?

Look at [I]Blade Runner 2049[/I] - very well-reviewed, but it was a follow-up to a relative 'cult' hit and didn't do great at the box office. Heck, the video release has a giant quote reassuring potential buyers that they don't have to dig out a thirty-year-old VHS tape before watching it:
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Soft reboots are in vogue - consider how Star Trek is in an alternate timeline (movies) or prequel (TV) to avoid existing canon. Even things that are in-canon (Star Wars) push to pass the reins to a new generation and new cast rather than relying on the old guard.

However, I'd still argue that a Bill & Ted reboot (or even a soft reboot, like if it starred Little Bill and Little Ted) would be ill-advised, the name doesn't have enough clout to draw in a regular audience, and recasting the main roles would drive away the original fans.

[Mio Akiyama]

Honestly they probably don't even need to do CG for Keanu as his younger self, he could probably play him