Over the weekend, while taking a break from updating AlexWinter.com, the once and future Bill S. Preston, Esq. tweeted that he had just received the script for Bill & Ted 3. Assuming this isn't just a really super-mean joke played on Winter by his slightly more successful former co-star, Keanu Reeves, Bill & Ted 3 could actually be on the way to becoming an actual real-life thing, instead of a piece of slash fan-fic we've been working on for the past 15 years.
As reported by the fine folks at Slashfilm, both Winter and Reeves have been caught talking about the possibility of a threequel to their late-80s/early-90s double-masterpieces, presumably because Reeves just got sick and tired of Winter begging. The writers of the original two films, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, have signed on to write the third installment, which reportedly has this as its premise:
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. Then there’s an element of time and they have to go back.
BUT WHAT ABOUT RUFUS!?
While Winter seems pretty confident about the film, pretty much nothing else substantive is known about it, including, who will direct it, when it will come out and whether they're going to go ahead and just show those guys smoking weed already. To help the process along though, we've assembled some suggestions for possible names for what will be our favorite film of whatever year it comes out, whether it's any damn good or not.
- Bill & Ted's Tubular Excursion
- Bill & Ted's Fantastic Voyage
- Bill & Ted's Radical Emprise
- Bill & Ted's Bitching Walkabout
- Bill & Ted's OK Trip
Try making up your own in the comments - it's fun!
