Summary
- Script for Bill and Ted 4 is being written, with the intention of shopping the project around.
- The first film was released in 1989, introducing audiences to Bill and Ted, a pair of dim-witted rock ‘n’ roll fans who time travel.
- Bill & Ted 3 was released in 2020 and received well by critics, and Bill & Ted 4 will go ahead so long as everyone involved is happy with the idea.
Alex Winter has revealed that a script for a possible Bill and Ted 4 is now being written, with the intention of shopping the project around. In an interview with The Sarah O’Connell Show, Winter revealed that they are now “tinkering” with the idea for a fourth adventure in the Bill and Ted franchise, with the actor hoping everyone (including co-star Keanu Reeves) will be happy with the result.
“We’re tinkering with a fourth movie idea that all of us like, and the guys are going to write, so we’ll see. It takes us time to get these things going, and we never want to do them unless they’re great.”
The first Bill and Ted outing, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, was released way, way back in 1989, and introduces audiences to Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Keanu Reeves as Ted “Theodore” Logan, a pair of delightfully dim-witted slackers and rock ‘n’ roll fans who must travel through time to assemble historical figures for their high school history presentation and thus become the heroes they are destined to be.
The sequel, 1991’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, takes things in an even more bizarre direction, with a pair of Bill and Ted robots being sent into the past to kill Bill and Ted and thus erase the utopian future their music has created. The duo then goes to hell, face death in a spoof of The Seventh Seal, and go to heaven where they meet an alien, before competing for the future of the world in a ‘battle of the bands’ competition.
Bill & Ted 3 Was Finally Released in 2020
Bill and Ted 3
- Release Date
- August 27, 2020
A third Bill and Ted movie was in development for some time, finally being unleashed in 2020. Starring Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves once again, Bill & Ted Face the Music finds the pair now middle-aged and tasked with at last writing a song to unite humanity before space-time is destroyed.
Bill and Ted Face the Music was received well by critics, with many glad to see the pair return to screens. Thus, this news of a possible fourth movie is sure to have many shouting “Excellent!” but, as Winter explains, it will only happen if everyone involved is on board.
“They feel the same way, it has to be right. We love [the Bill & Ted movies] because they’re oddball, and they’re not typical mainstream films. They’ve never been cash-grab movies; nobody has gotten rich off the Bill and Ted series. We really do make them sincerely from a place of love and interest. There’s a really good idea that the writers came up with for a fourth that’s kind of obvious. I don’t want to give it away — I can’t give it away because I would be drawn and quartered — but it is a really good idea, an obvious idea. It will get written, and we’ll see if we can actually get it made.”
Alex Winter can currently be seen in the horror movie Destroy All Neighbors, which is now streaming on Shudder. Check out the trailer below:
