Bill and Ted: Face The Music
 

Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter Confirmed For Threequel ‘Bill & Ted Face The Music’

Most Excellent!’ 27 years after we last saw the totally radical pairing of Ted “Theodore” Logan and Bill S. Preston Esq., Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are now confirmed to reprise their roles in a third Bill & Ted movie, I can reveal. Bloom is launching sales in Cannes on the long-gestating time-travel comedy, which is called Bill & Ted Face The Music. The movie is likely to be one of the hottest properties at the market.

Currently in pre-production, the movie has been written by the franchise’s original creators Chris Matheson (Imagine That) and Ed Solomon (Men in Black) with Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) confirmed to direct. Scott Kroopf (Limitless) will produce together with Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce of Hammerstone Studios, with Steven Soderbergh serving as an executive producer alongside Scott Fischer, John Ryan Jr., and John Santilli.

When we last picked up with the most audacious dudes they were time-traveling teenagers trying to pass history class and win the battle of the bands. Once prophesized to save the universe with their rock and roll, according to the production the new movie will see the two best friends as middle-aged men with family responsibilities who have yet to fulfill their destiny. They’ve written thousands of tunes, but they have yet to write a good one, much less the greatest song ever written. With the fabric of time and space tearing around them, a visitor from the future warns the duo that only their music can save life as we know it. Out of luck and inspiration, Bill and Ted set out on another time travel adventure — with the help of their daughters, a new crop of historical figures, and some sympathetic music legends — to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony in the universe as we know it.

MGM owns the rights to the film and will release in the U.S. under their Orion Pictures banner while Bloom is handling international sales. Endeavor Content negotiated the U.S. deal. The project has already piqued the interest of buyers in Cannes, we understand.

Winter and Reeves said today, “We couldn’t be more excited to get the whole band back together again. Chris and Ed wrote an amazing script, and with Dean at the helm we’ve got a dream team!”

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey became cultural landmarks for a certain generation — the nostalgia factor alone could be a big pull for some audiences — as well as lucrative comedies in their own right. The movie also comes at time when promising and scaled comedies are in short supply. Bloom’s Alex Walton said, “Fans of Bill and Ted have been waiting for Reeves and Winter to reunite since their last Bogus Journey in 1991. This is excellent!”

Reeves is currently in production on the third installment of the John Wick franchise. Winter has more recently transitioned to writing and directing with credits including Epix documentary Deep Web and VH1 documentary Downloaded. Next up he has Frank Zappa doc Zappa.

In Cannes, Bloom is also selling Julius Onah’s Luce starring Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth and Kelvin Harrison Jr.; Yuval Adler’s The Operative; Josh Trank’s Fonzo starring Tom Hardy; David Sandberg’s Kung Fury starring Michael Fassbender; Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation, and Matthew Heineman’s A Private War starring Rosamund Pike.

Reeves is represented by WME and Ziffren Brittenham; Winter is represented by CAA, Forward Entertainment, Hollander Entertainment and Sloss Eckhouse LawCo; Parisot is represented by WME; and Hammerstone Studios is represented by Rosen Law Group.

http://collider.com/bill-and-ted-3-k..._medium=social

So they finally got their money, just like they predicted not too far back. Great! Full steam ahead, then.

Great news. Really happy this worked out and they're finally moving forward.

This will send the author of this article into a teething frenzy....but WTH.

"Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends."


I sincerely hope this is a misprint by the EW people. it's pretty clear Bill and Tedd had SONS at the end of part 2. Please do not SJW another movie. especially one that was this heartfelt and fun.

I can't wait for this one. Wow 27 years and I thought I waited a long time for an Incredibles sequel.

Oh wow, you're right. I forgot about that. Yeah, it's literally "Little Bill" and "Little Ted" at the end of Bogus Journey.

Yeah, that's a little concerning.

...there was a sequel to the first one?! :teek:

Yeah, and it was much more surreal.

I remember not liking it much at all... but then again I haven't seen either film in probably over 20 years.

I've seen the original a few times. Last time probably almost a decade ago or so. Nice weekend movie. My favourite part is when a king tells his udnerlings to "put them in the Iron Maiden" and Bill and Ted excitedly say "IRON MAIDEN! :tgrin:" :lol:

ya Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey it adds the best character ever to the Bill and Ted Franchise. Death.

I wonder if they'll keep the same wives from the first two movies, or if they'll have already left Bill and Ted by this point, never to be seen again.

And there's no reason William Sadler couldn't come back as Death. With no Carlin they have to do something.

Sadler is coming back as Death that was conformed a while back.

No kidding? That's awesome.

Yeah, you're right:
http://www.slashfilm.com/bill-and-te...-sadler-death/

This is one of those where I won't believe it's happening until there's a trailer, because of how many times B&T3 has been "announced" over the decades.

This is different. This is the first time they have financing in order, a studio behind it, and distribution. Having a director doesn't hurt either. None of these things they've had any of the times they've announced they're "working on it" (which just meant the script).

new Interview with Ed Solomon from Collider

http://collider.com/bill-and-ted-3/#ed-solomon

Bill's Daughter is named Thea and Ted's is named Billie

That would be really funny if they were so dumb as to name their daughters after themselves.:lol:

It would be more bizarre than anything else. "Bogus Journey" had them name their sons "Little Ted" and "Little Bill"... so same with the mystery daughters, too? And their wives just let them do that twice in a row?

Yep. and the audience would pick up INSTANTLY, I'd hope, on what the writers where trying to do, any any good will the franchise had would start to fade away.

Actually Bill and Ted did have daughters at the end of Bogus Journey. IMDB credits two girls as playing uncredited child roles which is most likely Bill and Ted's Kids in the movie

https://i.imgur.com/3NfRv2W.png

A divorce is pretty dark for a Bill and Ted movie.

More likely those were random kids seen in the movie. The babies they had at the end were clearly meant to be boys.

yeah, i hope they don't go that route. bill and tedd needs to be light hearted fun now more than ever.

Hopefully Bill and Ted are still with their original wives.

They could each have more then one kid so they could still have daughters and sons.

Yeah, because them dying, meeting the Grim Reaper, possessing bodies and getting exorcised to Hell is perfectly lighthearted.

I mean... the way it played out in the movies, yeah...

Bill and Ted Face The Music filming begins January 10, 2019, according to a new report form Omega Underground.


http://comicbook.com/movies/2018/06/...-january-2019/

So we will more then likely be waiting for a 2020 release at best.

depends how long it takes them to film the movie and finish pre and post production. They could probably have it out later in 2019

It's very conceivable. There's no way we're talking Infinity War or even Deadpool levels of post-production here.

I can't wait to see the first behind-the-scenes stuff when it starts filming.

Same I am super excited for this movie

Eh... now suddenly Keanu is "unsure if it's a reality."

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/80423

Good news from Alex Winters.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/80987

Though why are they still writing? I thought they all had a script they were proud of like... years ago now.

Been wondering about that.

New Interview with Alex Winter

I can’t not ask about Bill & Ted. Is Face the Music actually, definitely happening?

Well, we’re in pre-prep and are set to shoot in early 2019. So right now, all systems are go. My old line when Blockbuster was in business was that I’d never believe a film was a go until the video was at Blockbuster. But I don’t know what to say anymore ... Netflix?

Given how long it’s been talked about, did you think the film would ever happen?

The idea was hatched by the four of us about 10 years ago – Keanu and myself and Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. It didn’t happen without a lot of work. Most films aren’t easy, but a comedy sequel 25 years later wasn’t a slam dunk for most studios. While they loved the script it took us time to convince the financiers. And when they came on board they really came on board. And you know, they’ve had plenty of time to make the script great. The upside of it taking so long is the script is really good!

What was the reaction when Face the Music was formally announced?

It was an interesting litmus test. But the fan response has been enormous. It helped us get the financing because there was an overwhelmingly positive response to the idea of us doing this. Even in the age of internet comment trolling, we haven’t really encountered any pervasive negativity. The concerns that I’ve encountered are totally valid – don’t screw up the tone of the first two, make it a real Bill & Ted movie. And the question of how you revisit these characters so much later, that I’m not concerned about, because we think the comedy works great. Not that I want the film to stall any longer, but in a way, given the plotline, the older we get the funnier it gets.

Do people still shout out Bill & Ted lines at you?

Daily. Honestly, my kids are so used to it they don’t think of it.

What do they think of the films?

My kids think I’m a titanic dork.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...source=twitter

I don't know what this means, to be in "pre-prep." What the hell is that? Is that, pre-production on a wholly greenlit and funded movie with the expectation that it would shoot in early 2019? Actual production (building sets, etc.)? Not even pre-production yet, just some kind of nebulous "we're figuring things out" stage?

Because "before any preparing" (which is what the literal definition of "pre-prep" would be) sure sounds like: "The movie is nowhere."

Could it be a Most Excellent Christmas...?!

https://screenrant.com/bill-ted-3-ch...ease-possible/

We can only hope.

Next Month is 30 years of Excellent Adventure so we might get some news on the third movie

https://pursuenews.com/bill-and-ted-...8q3cFXr4tyRcDY


Bill And Ted 3 Starts Filming On March 5 In LA, Tempe & Phoenix

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winters will soon be getting into their roles as the rock n’ roll time travelers as Bill and Ted Face the Music gets a production start date. After facing several hurdles, Bill and Ted 3 has finally managed to move past its limbo stage and is all set to start rolling the cameras on March 5.