After years of delays and budgeting issues, it looks like Alex Winter (Bill S. Preston Esq.) and Keanu Reeves (Ted Theodore Logan) are finally going to make a third Bill & Ted movie. At this moment, the film is "Bill & Ted Face the Music," and I, for one, couldn’t be more excited.
Okay I sense the raised eyebrows and perplexed faces. You’re asking “but Aidan, how is this metal?”
Look, in the grand world of cinema, there are only a few films that I consider staples of rock/metal movie pantheon. And yes, this list includes both Bill & Ted films. And before you argue with me on this, I just want to point out that in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey alone, the duo: die, escape from hell, best Death himself, and save the day by shredding a KISS song. If that’s not a metal movie, then what — I demand — is?
Back to the story at hand, which is Bill & Ted 3! The film was written by the original creators, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, with Dean Parisot set to direct. The script is eight years in the making with both Keanu and Alex happy with its final version. It has been picked up by MGM to be released in the U.S. under their Orion Pictures brand, and the film is currently being shopped internationally at the Cannes Festival.
The Hollywood Reporter also dropped a synopsis of what to expect for the film:
“Currently in preproduction, Bill & Ted Face the Music will see the duo long past their days as time-traveling teenagers and now weighed down by middle age and the responsibilities of family. 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.”
That’s all I need to know!
I get it. The last film was 27 years ago, so there is a high chance that the magic won’t work on Adult Aiden like it did on impressionable Young Aiden. However, whether this film proves to be excellent or bogus, I know I will be in the theater on day one, ready for maximum air guitaring should the event prove worthy.
Look, in the grand world of cinema, there are only a few films that I consider staples of rock/metal movie pantheon. And yes, this list includes both Bill & Ted films. And before you argue with me on this, I just want to point out that in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey alone, the duo: die, escape from hell, best Death himself, and save the day by shredding a KISS song. If that’s not a metal movie, then what — I demand — is?
Back to the story at hand, which is Bill & Ted 3! The film was written by the original creators, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, with Dean Parisot set to direct. The script is eight years in the making with both Keanu and Alex happy with its final version. It has been picked up by MGM to be released in the U.S. under their Orion Pictures brand, and the film is currently being shopped internationally at the Cannes Festival.
The Hollywood Reporter also dropped a synopsis of what to expect for the film:
“Currently in preproduction, Bill & Ted Face the Music will see the duo long past their days as time-traveling teenagers and now weighed down by middle age and the responsibilities of family. 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.”
That’s all I need to know!
I get it. The last film was 27 years ago, so there is a high chance that the magic won’t work on Adult Aiden like it did on impressionable Young Aiden. However, whether this film proves to be excellent or bogus, I know I will be in the theater on day one, ready for maximum air guitaring should the event prove worthy.
P.S. I am told that “air-guitaring” is not a word.
P.P.S. I don’t care.