Early Monday morning, the most triumphant Alex Winter took to his personal Twitter account to share a storyboard image from Orion Pictures' BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC. The image contains a crude drawing of the San Dimas slackers, with the camera placed near their high tops and looking up at the devil horn-raising duo. Upon posting the photo, Winter had received comments from fans who were apparently complaining that the figures don't look anything like himself or his righteous co-star, Keanu Reeves. These people are bogus, of course, as everyone knows that storyboard images often contain bare-bones, slap-dash images. The goal when drawing storyboard cels is to get the idea on paper as quickly and efficiently as possible, not to create a masterpiece. In fact, those who teach storyboarding will often tell their students to draw the scene again if there is too much detail in their first draft.
Be sure to check out Winters' reply in the tweet posted below for a good chuckle:
Recently, actresses Brigette Lundy-Paine and Samara Weaving were cast in the long-awaited sequel as the hard rockin' daughters of Bill and Ted. For the upcoming adventure, Lundy-Paine, who's starred in THE GLASS CASTLE and the TV series ATYPICAL, will arrive as Billie Logan, daughter of Ted "Theodore" Logan (Keanu Reeves). As for Weaving, who stole the show in McG's highly-underrated horror comedy THE BABYSITTER, she'll play Thea Preston, the daughter Bill S. Preston (Alex Winter). Also set to reprise his role as Death for the threequel is fan-favorite actor William Sadler.
Here's the official synopsis for BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC:
When we last met Bill and Ted 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, middle age and the responsibilities of family have caught up with these two best friends who have not yet fulfilled 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 our heroes that only their song can save life as we know it. Out of luck and fresh out of inspiration, Bill and Ted set out on a time travel adventure to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony in the universe as we know it. Together with the aid of their daughters, a new crop of historical figures, and some sympathetic music legends, Bill and Ted find much, much more than just a song.
Original Bill & Ted creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon will return to the pen the new film, which is set to be produced by Scott Kroopf, Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce. Meanwhile, Steven Soderbergh will serve as an executive producer, with R. Scott Reid, John Ryan Jr., Scott Fischer, and John Santilli joining him for the effort.
BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC is set to take theaters by storm on August 21, 2020.