Author Topic: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure...continues (Read 4370 times)

MichaelA · « **on:** April 5, 2011, 02:52:46 pm »

There's going to be a sequel to the sequel!

Bill and Ted's return: too bodacious?

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There have been a slew of belated sequels at cinemas lately. Some, like Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, arrived for reasons of historical opportunism. Others turned up for reasons no one could really fathom: Tron Legacy arrived last year as a weirdly grandiose afterglow to a sweet little lo-fi 1980s offering.

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Production year: 1988
Country: USA
Cert (UK): PG
Directors: Stephen Herek
Cast: Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves
More on this film
For me, the forthcoming Bill and Ted "threequel" most definitely falls into the latter category. But back in September when this story first broke, it was remarkable to see quite how much readers of this site were champing at the bit for the return of the Wyld Stallyns and their bemusingly basic 80s rocker worldview.
Big-hair metal fans will no doubt be turning their amps up to 11 again as Keanu Reeves has revealed a few snippets of the plot for the new movie, which is currently being written. Reeves, 46, (yes, 46) says it will focus on Bill and Ted's efforts to live up to predictions of greatness made for them in 1991 sequel Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey – you know, the one in which the Death guy from Bergman's The Seventh Seal turns up and challenges the duo to a game for their souls.
"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," said Reeves. "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." He added: "I believe the writers are six weeks away from a draft."
So there you have it. Alex Winter, aka Bill, who hasn't been seen much on a big screen in the last decade, is also on board for this one, so it's not all some terrible dream that can be banished by trying really, really hard to wake up. There really is going to be a 40-something Bill and Ted movie in cinemas sometime soon. Can this be a good thing?

Stupider than stupid, but I still loved the original. I will have to see this.

S · « **Reply #1 on:** April 5, 2011, 02:57:27 pm »

Given Keanu's agelessness I'm surprised they're not doing a prequel.

Sir Harvest Fields · « **Reply #2 on:** April 5, 2011, 02:57:48 pm »

Ahhh mate, awesome crap. I wanna watch this. Almost as good as Waynes World

MichaelA · « **Reply #3 on:** April 5, 2011, 02:58:17 pm »

Quote from: Sir Harvest Fields on April 5, 2011, 02:57:48 pm

Ahhh mate, awesome crap. I wanna watch this. Almost as good as Waynes World

Party Time! Excellent.

SP · « **Reply #4 on:** April 5, 2011, 03:00:08 pm »

Hollywood is an Ouroboros. Except instead of the tail into the mouth - they are in the midst of a cranium enema.

Crosby Nick · « **Reply #5 on:** April 5, 2011, 03:01:20 pm »

Quote from: Southern Pansy on April 5, 2011, 03:00:08 pm

Hollywood is an Ouroboros. Except instead of the tail into the mouth - they are in the midst of a cranium enema.

Whoaa, like, totally So-krates.

Chaztastic · « **Reply #6 on:** April 5, 2011, 03:13:06 pm »

Station!

Just been reading this very article and have decided I'm all in favour of it until it turns out to be dire, at which point I'll suggest they probably shouldn't have bothered.

Won't be the same without Carlin...

SP · « **Reply #7 on:** April 5, 2011, 03:17:52 pm »

Quote from: Red Tsar on April 5, 2011, 03:13:06 pm

Station!

Just been reading this very article and have decided I'm all in favour of it until it turns out to be dire, at which point I'll suggest they probably shouldn't have bothered.

Won't be the same without Carlin...

It will be a travesty. Bill and Ted were of their time. They are either going to make an irrelevant retread of the first 2 films, or completely bastardise them. Either way, it'll be shite. Youth culture is of its time. Revisiting it invariably fails to recapture the magic and is just depressing.

Have any of the Hollywood remakes and belated sequels been worth the effort of making?

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #8 on:** April 5, 2011, 03:26:48 pm »

Quote from: Southern Pansy on April 5, 2011, 03:17:52 pm

Have any of the Hollywood remakes and belated sequels been worth the effort of making?

True Grit.

The Batman films...although they were a reboot.

But not much else.

SP · « **Reply #9 on:** April 5, 2011, 03:28:56 pm »

Quote from: King Richard IV on April 5, 2011, 03:26:48 pm

True Grit.

The Batman films...although they were a reboot.

But not much else.

The Coen Brothers don't count as Hollywood. And they made the book rather than remake the John Wayne film...

Sir Harvest Fields · « **Reply #10 on:** April 5, 2011, 03:29:14 pm »

Terminator?

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #11 on:** April 5, 2011, 03:33:36 pm »

Quote from: Southern Pansy on April 5, 2011, 03:28:56 pm

The Coen Brothers don't count as Hollywood. And they made the book rather than remake the John Wayne film...

Fair point.

Quote from: Sir Harvest Fields on April 5, 2011, 03:29:14 pm

Terminator?

The Bale one was rubbish, T3 was atrocious.

Cragsi · « **Reply #12 on:** April 5, 2011, 04:04:33 pm »

SIXTY NINE DUDE!!! *plays air guitar*

Sir Harvest Fields · « **Reply #13 on:** April 5, 2011, 04:05:30 pm »

Bale one was shit, but apart from American Psycho and The Machinist i find him a shit actor anyway.

Slick_Beef · « **Reply #14 on:** April 5, 2011, 05:22:31 pm »

wow. I can't quite believe that. But out of morbid curiosity I think I'd actually see it. "EXCELLENT!"

Bennyo · « **Reply #15 on:** April 5, 2011, 05:32:52 pm »

Bogus.

fivein05 · « **Reply #16 on:** April 5, 2011, 05:40:50 pm »

Keanu Reeves is the worst fuckin actor I have ever seen. He has bullshitted his way through a career, looking more wooden than Rooneys Cock as he walks through a Derby and Joan Christmas Party.

This has got to be an April Fool!

Lawnmowerman · « **Reply #17 on:** April 5, 2011, 05:51:02 pm »

Quote from: S on April 5, 2011, 02:57:27 pm

Given Keanu's agelessness I'm surprised they're not doing a prequel.

F*cking hell!! he looks younger now!!

Quote from: fivein05 on April 5, 2011, 05:40:50 pm

Keanu Reeves is the worst fuckin actor I have ever seen. He has bullshitted his way through a career, looking more wooden than Rooneys Cock as he walks through a Derby and Joan Christmas Party.

This has got to be an April Fool!

You need to see more movies mate if hes the worst actor you've seen

Thush · « **Reply #18 on:** April 5, 2011, 06:21:58 pm »

This news has given me a full-on robot chubby.

lfcshaunod · « **Reply #19 on:** April 5, 2011, 06:26:36 pm »

Best. News. EVER!!!!!

Dr Manhattan · « **Reply #20 on:** April 5, 2011, 06:55:55 pm »

Yaaaaaaaaay!!

Oh.

crasher1in · « **Reply #21 on:** April 5, 2011, 07:03:04 pm »

Also Keanu is the man from earth…….

SP · « **Reply #22 on:** April 5, 2011, 08:52:33 pm »

Quote from: crasher1in on April 5, 2011, 07:03:04 pm

Also Keanu is the man from earth…….

Is the 26AD one a prototype for the Care Bears?

Red_Isle_Chap · « **Reply #23 on:** April 6, 2011, 12:51:12 am »

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Please tell me this is a windup? I watched "Excellent adventure" for the first time in about 15 years a few weeks ago. It's drivel of the worst kind, and that's coming from someone who, when he was younger, liked it. Hand on heart, it's up there with the worst movies i've ever seen, it really is. The idea that they're going to make a third......well it defies belief.

Oh well, good luck to them, but you can't polish a turd

Juan Loco · « **Reply #24 on:** April 6, 2011, 12:55:29 am »

The Gulleysucker · « **Reply #25 on:** March 21, 2019, 09:05:17 am »

Yes way!.

Andy @ Allerton! · « **Reply #26 on:** March 21, 2019, 09:33:56 am »

Quote from: The Gulleysucker on March 21, 2019, 09:05:17 am

Yes way!.

Bodacious, dude! Party on!

bryanod · « **Reply #27 on:** March 21, 2019, 10:22:55 am »

Missus had no idea what I was laughing at when saw making a new one - gonna have to watch both of them soon now

RedSince86 · « **Reply #28 on:** March 21, 2019, 10:29:15 am »

Awesome!!

Loved those films growing up, so bad they are good.

Skidder. · « **Reply #29 on:** March 21, 2019, 10:57:02 am »

They look nervous as fuck in that video and should've just done it in character.

Loved Bill and Ted (who didn't), but this is either going to be really, really, really heinous or just totally excellent!

I hope it's is boss, but I really hope that they don't get a scriptwriter who is a Johnny on the go who just watches the first two and makes a fucking cash grab.

Without reading anything on it, it'd be great to have the time travel elements in it, but I'm fully expecting some woeful CGI (ala Arnie in T5) and some utter cheese on toast.

Fingers fucking crossed anyway... But I hope they don't have lip-synching like at the end of Bogus Journey - even as a kid, watching it in a theatre, I turned to my mates and said 'That's not them, it's Kiss', I was universally ripped by each and every one of them; don't forget, this is a time when Wrestling was still seen as being 'real' by many... got fucking pure ripped by the lot of them until I got the soundtrack off my sister for my birthday and showed them - they were still convinced it was them.

Anyhow, Keanu Reaves defo plays the guitar and was in a band afterwards (was it Dogstar or was that Johnny Depp's band?), and I think Alex Winter was in a band after Bill and Ted... So it'd be great to see them incorporate that somehow. Either way, I'm sure Reeves' band got lambasted at a gig and booed off stage for being absolute horseshit!

Regardless, i'll see it anyway and will be happy to go and see the kip of the audience now.

Oh and Alex Winter looks like Mesut Ozil's dad.

Betty Blue · « **Reply #30 on:** March 21, 2019, 04:07:17 pm »

Can't decide how I feel about this yet. Like everyone here I'll probably go see it no matter what though, which I guess is what Hollywood execs are banking on!

Quote from: Kidder. on March 21, 2019, 10:57:02 am

I hope it's is boss, but I really hope that they don't get a scriptwriter who is a Johnny on the go who just watches the first two and makes a fucking cash grab.

They've already confirmed that the original scriptwriters will take the reins again. One of them hasn't written a screenplay since 2013 though! But the other (Ed Solomon) at least wrote Men in Black and more recently Now You See Me. So they're obviously looking to recapture the original magic. William Sadler has also signed on, who played the grim reaper. Won't be quite the same without Carlin though.

Chakan · « **Reply #31 on:** March 21, 2019, 04:31:42 pm »

Least they're not doing a reboot.

Hazell · « **Reply #32 on:** March 21, 2019, 04:32:11 pm »

Quote from: Chakan on March 21, 2019, 04:31:42 pm

Least they're not doing a reboot.

And hopefully Paul Feig won't be involved.

Flaccido Dongingo · « **Reply #33 on:** March 21, 2019, 04:36:54 pm »

Quote from: fivein05 on April 5, 2011, 05:40:50 pm

Keanu Reeves is the worst fuckin actor I have ever seen. He has bullshitted his way through a career, looking more wooden than Rooneys Cock as he walks through a Derby and Joan Christmas Party.

This has got to be an April Fool!

mikey_LFC · « **Reply #34 on:** March 21, 2019, 04:39:34 pm »

Quote from: Red_Isle_Chap on April 6, 2011, 12:51:12 am

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Please tell me this is a windup? I watched "Excellent adventure" for the first time in about 15 years a few weeks ago. It's drivel of the worst kind, and that's coming from someone who, when he was younger, liked it. Hand on heart, it's up there with the worst movies i've ever seen, it really is. The idea that they're going to make a third......well it defies belief.

Oh well, good luck to them, but you can't polish a turd

Watch it again. You were right the first time!

Skidder. · « **Reply #35 on:** March 21, 2019, 05:24:24 pm »

Quote from: Foregone Concussion on March 21, 2019, 04:32:11 pm

And hopefully Paul Feig won't be involved.

Willomena and Tedwina - Wyld Mares.

Ziltoid · « **Reply #36 on:** March 22, 2019, 09:30:21 am »

Wonder if the Princesses will be along for the ride

Mr Kipling · « **Reply #37 on:** March 22, 2019, 12:19:33 pm »

Agent99 · « **Reply #38 on:** March 22, 2019, 03:36:31 pm »

Quote from: Red_Isle_Chap on April 6, 2011, 12:51:12 am

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Please tell me this is a windup? I watched "Excellent adventure" for the first time in about 15 years a few weeks ago. It's drivel of the worst kind, and that's coming from someone who, when he was younger, liked it. Hand on heart, it's up there with the worst movies i've ever seen, it really is. The idea that they're going to make a third......well it defies belief.

Oh well, good luck to them, but you can't polish a turd

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/FPD5q6DC43M" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/FPD5q6DC43M</a>

Crimson_Tank · « **Reply #39 on:** March 24, 2019, 08:59:59 pm »

Quote from: Ziltoid on March 22, 2019, 09:30:21 am

Wonder if the Princesses will be along for the ride

I hope so.