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Though it doesn’t sound like it’s any further than along than what it was a couple of years back, “Bill & Ted” star Alex Winter has whet the appetite those rabid franchise-fans by revealing some more about the storyline of the proposed “Bill & Ted 3”.
Speaking to Yahoo!, the actor and filmmaker said :
[Bill & Ted] will be 40-something and it’s all about Bill and Ted grown up, or not grown up. It’s really sweet and really f—–g funny. But, it’s a Bill & Ted movie, that’s what it is. It’s for the fans of Bill & Ted. It fits very neatly in the series. It’s not going to feel like a reboot.
The conceit is really funny: What if you’re middle-aged, haven’t really grown up and you’re supposed to have saved the world and maybe, just maybe, you kinda haven’t?
There’s many versions of ourselves in this movie. [It’s] answering the question: ‘What happened to these guys?’ They’re supposed to have done all this stuff, they weren’t the brightest bulbs on the tree, what happened 20 years later? To answer that question in a comedic way felt rich with possibility.
Winter says it’s unfortunate that people found out they were trying to do it.. because now they’re having to “build this thing in public”.
The thing we had going against us is that word got out. That was kind of a bummer. It just takes a long time to put a movie together. Now we’re having to build this thing in public, which is fine. I just feel bad the fans have to get dragged through this long, boring, protracted process.
I guess about four years ago we had an idea together that we thought was pretty great. It took time to construct the idea, it took Chris and Ed time to build the first draft. Then we put a producer together and got a director (Galaxy Quest’s Dean Parisot). We’ve been working on drafts for the last couple of years.
The script’s been finished for a while, but comedy is so specific. We’re in that world where producers are on, financiers are on and we’re just working and reworking the script.
Winter and Keanu Reeves are expected to reprise their roles in the threequel.
