We have been hearing about the potential BILL AND TED 3 for years now (23 to be exact) and it still seems that we are on the cusp of it actually happening. After numerous rewrites and changes, Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves both still seem very invested in making it happen. So what is the hold-up?
In an interview with Yahoo Movies UK, Winter explained that despite the screenplay being completed in 2012 and GALAXY QUEST director Dean Parisot being involved, there was still a need to draft it again to get the comedy just right.
"It just takes a long time to put a movie together. Now we’re having to build this thing in public, which is fine. I just feel bad [the fans] have to get dragged through this long, boring, protracted process."
So, while the jokes themselves are changing and adjusting with each draft, Winter does say that the core plot of BILL AND TED 3 is still there and will work with both actors being much older than their teen counterparts in the original films.
[Bill & Ted] will be 40-something, and it’s all about Bill and Ted grown up, or not grown up. It’s really sweet and really f*cking funny."
"But 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. The conceit 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?"
He says the film will follow the characters in multiple timelines and versions of themselves, investigating what went wrong that led them to where they are today. If that sounds very deep for a Bill and Ted movie, just look back at how in depth BILL AND TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY analyzed life and death. For movies that should have been disposable comedies, they are quite profound in their analysis of time and what it means.
I am prepared to wait a little longer for BILL AND TED 3 as it is only a few years longer than I waited for DUMB AND DUMBER TO and that is finally coming to fruition later this year.