The Wyld Stallyns are getting ready to rock out again soon with the release ofBill & Ted Face the Music. Featuring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reprising their iconic roles as Bill and Ted, the movie is a hotly anticipated feature among fans who have been waiting for decades for aBill and Tedreunion. During the recent Comic-Con@Home virtual panel for the upcoming film, Reeves revealed that he never gets as much joy out of work as on aBill and Tedset.
“I can’t feel, or laugh, or do anything like the way that working on Bill and Ted does, and working with Alex. That doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world for me. To partner up and work on the craft side, and then get to play.”
Although it has been almost 35 years since the lastBill and Tedmovie came out,the bond between Alex Winter and Keanu Reevesremains strong, as Winter recalls the exact moment on the set of their latest movie when he knew they had got the old ‘Bill and Ted’ groove back.
“About halfway, we’re shooting one of the versions of ourselves, I remember we got into these rocker characters and we just went off. And I remember looking at him, and him looking at me, and thinking Bill and Ted are back.”
Of course, all the goodwill in the world can’t make the cast and crew happy if it’s a project they don’t believe in. But as Winter also pointed out during theBill and Ted 3 Comic-Con@Home Panel, the intention behind making a thirdBill and Tedmovie came from an honest place on the part of the writers, and that placed the cast and crew in the right frame of mind to put their best foot forward.
“It was some years ago, at least 10 years ago, we were all having dinner with Chris and Ed and they posed quite similarly a good idea as the Bill and Ted go to hell idea. And they laid out this very summer-y version of Charles Dickens, of going back to each version of your life. None of us even thought of embarking on a journey to do a third…unless it was really great and we could somehow hold onto the magic of the creativity well enough that it maintained the integrity of the initial idea.”
Directed by Dean Parisot and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon,Bill & Ted Face the Musicfinds the lead pair of would-be-rockers living the lives of middle-aged suburban dads. A call from the future sets Bill and Ted on another epic quest through history to save humanity. Only this time, the duo are joined by their equally-dim and equally-good natured daughters, which we got to see play out in the newestBill and Ted Face the Music trailer..
Alongside Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in the lead roles, the movie also stars Anthony Carrigan, Kid Cudi, Brigette Lundy-Paine and Samara Weaving, and will arrive in theaters and On Demand September 1.
