Best known as his on screen counterpart Bill S. Preston Esquire, Alex Winter recently gave Yahoo an update on the long rumoured comedy sequel Bill & Ted 3; confirming there are plans to release a third movie (finally making Bill & Ted a trilogy), and those involved are very keen on doing so, but it’s been a long process.
Previous plot rumours have suggested the third movie would involve Bill and Ted (played Winter and by Matrix star Keanu Reeves respectively) struggling to live up to their destiny (as they were previously touted as the saviours of the world), and Winter confirmed as much. Also adding there’s a completed script which everyone seems pleased with.
“The concept is really funny: What if you’re middle-aged, haven’t really grown up and you’re supposed to have saved the world and maybe, just maybe, you kinda haven’t? It’s a Bill & Ted movie, that’s what it is. It’s for the fans of Bill & Ted. It fits very neatly in the series. It’s not going to feel like a reboot.”
“It took time to construct the idea, it took Chris and Ed [writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon] time to build the first draft. Then we put a producer together and got a director (Galaxy Quest’s Dean Parisot). We’ve been working on drafts for the last couple of years. The script’s been finished for a while, but comedy is so specific. We’re in that world where producers are on, financiers are on and we’re just working and reworking the script.”
All of which confirms what we already knew/suspected; the new movie (should it eventually enter production) will see out time traveling heroes going back and forth meeting various versions of themselves, and trying to figure out where they went wrong, and why they haven’t saved the world; and how everyone involved, like the fans, want Bill & Ted 3 to get made. But at the moment, without an official announcement, it’s still a case of wait and see.
Matt Wheeldon – @TheMattWheeldon.
Source: Yahoo.
