MTV
got a video spot on the red carpet at last night’s Academy Awards, and
while not asking people if they were on Team Jacob or Team Edward, they
asked Keanu Reeves if he’d like to make another Bill & Ted movie
(I shouldn’t judge people for their dumb questions, as I was once at a
cocktail party with David Cronenberg and asked him if he’d appear in Nightbreed 2).
Keanu’s reply reads to me like dry sarcasm, but MTV – and much of the
web – seems to think that it’s plausible that Reeves is trying to get a
new Bill & Ted movie off the ground.
You can watch the video clip by clicking here and decide for yourself.
What would a new Bill & Ted movie be like? I’ve always (unsuccessfully) argued that Dude, Where’s My Car? is what Bill & Ted 3 could
have been, at least in basic terms – you’d have to bring in aliens to
threaten the world peace created by Wyld Stallyns, but a Bill & Ted film would have a wider focus, taking our heroes to outer space. Well, that’s my fanfic anyway. What do you guys think?
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They've always claimed they wanted to a somewhat meta sequel where Bill and Ted have discovered that not everything works out the way it was meant to, and they're these older guys still struggling to keep their band afloat. I'm sure someone else has more detail, but it sounded amusing to me.
Keanu,
I got a serious pitch for you: Bill and Ted's Wicked Conclusion, the third and final chapter of the trilogy. Bill and Ted rule their 80s butt rock utopia with a deft hand that rests between 'all right', 'mellow' and 'excellent'. A young Rufus comes rushing into their perfect future with authority, claiming that through their previous journeys through time and space, they've ruptured the very fabric of the cosmos and created a many different universe where alternate versions of themselves rule with varying degrees of success and or failure. Bill and Ted decide to help (and in some cases, put an end to) their alternate personas.
Wow, people really don't want anymore Matrix do they… They should only do #3 if they can get Sean Penn and Jeff Bridges to cameo.
Title: "Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Future". Rufus' replacement (Louis Black?) is sent back in time to after Wyld Stallions had it's meteoric rise to the top, i.e. Adult Bill & Ted. You see, in the future, since Earth has established contact & made friends with most extraterristial races, space travel is a normal part of life. A cosmic being has suddenly appeared, and threatens to destroy the universe. Only, Wyld Stallions at the height of their powers (again, Adult Bill & Ted) are able to combat this being with the power of Rock!
Man… I hate that MTV guy, Adam Rosenberg. I know this has nothing to do with Keanu or Bill and Ted; I just wanted to say that. He's always asking geek related questions, but he comes off so cheesy when he's talking to stars, like someone's kid brother hanging out at your party and trying to be cool.
Bill and Ted's Return to Earth… After wrapping up their tour of the Milky Way starting with a world tour in 1991 and wrapping up in 2010, Bill and Ted return to Earth only to find that the world has been ravaged not only by the effects of global warming, but an even greater threat… Emo music. The bands still look like chicks, but instead of singing about partying and having fun, all they do is whine about their suburban problems… the worst part is the bland goth tendencies inherent in emo has spread to all forms of music, and with the onset of digital music, music is no longer a unifying force but a series of increasingly segregated groups who only cling to novelty as opposed to universal appeal and rocking songs. The main "villian" leading this movement is Nuo, whose music is famous the world over for being so wildly obscure that he only has one fan who devotes every second of his day obsessing over Nuo's latest work. Nuo's main goal is to make the ultimate hipster credential… the deca-album(10 disc album)… which is so awful and full of obscure references that it's sheer novelty factor will engulf all music and music listeners in an endless race to decifer every pop culture and literary reference contained in the album(Scott Baio and Scott Bakula singing on the same song!! OMFG!!!). Ultimately this will render primative rock, Wyld Stallions and their ilk, totally irrelevant, thus spiralling the world into a music free black hole… and of course the end of the world. Bill and Ted look to their children, Bill Jr and Ted Jr, to help them save the world.
Bill and Ted's Return to Earth… After wrapping up their tour of the Milky Way starting with a world tour in 1991 and wrapping up in 2010, Bill and Ted return to Earth only to find that the world has been ravaged not only by the effects of global warming, but an even greater threat… Emo music. The bands still look like chicks, but instead of singing about partying and having fun, all they do is whine about their suburban problems… the worst part is the bland goth tendencies inherent in emo has spread to all forms of music, and with the onset of digital music, music is no longer a unifying force but a series of increasingly segregated groups who only cling to novelty as opposed to universal appeal and rocking songs. The main "villian" leading this movement is Nuo, whose music is famous the world over for being so wildly obscure that he only has one fan who devotes every second of his day obsessing over Nuo's latest work. Nuo's main goal is to make the ultimate hipster credential… the deca-album(10 disc album)… which is so awful and full of obscure references that it's sheer novelty factor will engulf all music and music listeners in an endless race to decifer every pop culture and literary reference contained in the album(Scott Baio and Scott Bakula singing on the same song!! OMFG!!!). Ultimately this will render primative rock, Wyld Stallions and their ilk, totally irrelevant, thus spiralling the world into a music free black hole… and of course the end of the world. Bill and Ted look to their children, Bill Jr and Ted Jr, to help them save the world.
Bill and Ted's Triumphant Return!
Seriously, just the other day I was trying to come up with ideas for a third Bill and Ted movie while I was sitting on the throne.
Wicked Conclusion is the way to go. Alternate dimensions is the only other type of sci-fi travel besides space travel. The two most be combined. Maybe the Bill & Ted can recruit alternate evil (classical music)/pussy (poptarts) selves to stop wicked intergalatic being that is also quite emo. Music written by The Mooney Suzuki who did Jack Black's "School Of Rock."
This almost falls under the Oh Don Piano Devinism category, but at the same time feels sort of like how Ghost Busters 3 talk first sounded.
OK, I'll be the one to say it. This doesn't really need to happen. I just watched 1 and 2 few weeks ago on HBO. It was nice to revisit, but I was also glad to not spend any more time in that world. Part 2 had a surprisingly inferior production value to the first. The original tried being a real film whereas 2 seemed to be more a glorified skit, which lost steam for me well before the end. I would really want to revisit these characters in a new film, personally. It's not something crying out to be done.
Bill and Ted wake up immersed inside lab buckets in a dystopian future ruled by robots who worship heavy metal. Turns out the other two movies were in a computer simulated world the robots created to harvest Bill and Ted's musical ability for world domination. Bill and Ted must rock out and defeat not only the machines but the evil Mr. Smythe, a robot disco DJ who claims the simulation world in their absence.
Guest appearances by Chuck Norris, Crispin Glover, and Ru Paul.
Keanu shows his Canadian side and fools the interweb with sarcasm. This won't happen. Without George Carlin… why would it?
it's like a cat talking about a piano.
It would have to open with Rufus' funeral.
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