A third outing for those Wyld Stallyns, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan, has been rumoured for nigh on twenty years now, but things appear to be moving forward at pace as Alex Winter revealed via Twitter that he’s got his hands on a completed screenplay.
Bill & Ted 3 first took a step closer to reality back in September 2010 when Keanu Reeves announced at the Toronto International Film Festival that Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon – writers of both Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and sequel Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) – were about to start work on the script.
Reeves updated progress earlier this month, stating to MTV that the draft was about six weeks away from completion, and also hinted at the film’s potential plot: “When we last got together, part of it was that Bill and Ted were supposed to have written the song that saved the world, and it hasn’t happened, so they’ve now become kind of possessed by trying to do that.”
While it’ll be interesting to catch up with Bill and Ted after all these years, you have to wonder how Reeves and Winter will manage to pull off the nonsensical slacker shtick given that they’re both in their mid-forties. But it’s better than another reboot, I suppose.
Originally published April 26, 2011. Updated November 29, 2022.
