Keanu Reeves Reveals Details About 'Bill & Ted 3' Premise
by Sean Comer
Bill S. Preston, Esq and "Ted" Theodore Logan, this is your life....Wow, it kind of sucks.
To hear Keanu "Ted" Reeves tell it, that's where the compass of the upcoming second sequel to 1989's most-bodacious cult comedy "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" is pointing. "The One" himself opened up to GQ recently and let spill some details, now that "Galaxy Quest" director Dean Parisot has been locked in to direct a spec script penned by Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson.
Contrary to the stars Rufus once let shine in their eyes, the future (so far) seems to have remained curiously uncertain despite everybody's best efforts to steer the San Dimas airheads straight, for the good of a most excellent utopia.
"One of the plot points is that these two people have been crushed by the responsibility of having to write the greatest song ever written and to change the world," Reeves said. "And they haven't done it. So everybody is kind of like, 'Whee is the song?' The guys have just drifted off into esoterica and lost their rock."
What follows is another trek through time in a pretty crappy phonebooth that, admittedly, a Brit in a blue box has probably flipped off a time or two as he's ventured to bust a foot off in Dalek ass. Curiously, the duo find that the highway to the future has many an off-ramp and they could do with a GPS.
"We go on this expedition, go into the future to find out if we wrote the song, and one future 'us' refuses to tell us, and another future 'us' blames us for their lives because we didn't write the song, so they're living this terrible life. In one version we're in jail; in another we're at some kind of highway motel and they hate us."
Considering who's attached to this, in addition to Reeves and Alex "Bill" Winter, this is actually quite encouraging.
Maybe I'm developing anglophenia-related optimism, but a tone like that hearkens to the hilarity of "Galaxy Quest": people years past their prime feeling somewhat of a sense of disenchantment as the years take their toll. The difference being, "Galaxy Quest" started us in the present and had to fill in the past that put a beating on the "Star Trek"-caricature former cast-mates. In this instance, we have a fair clue where Bill and Ted have been, as we've all probably actually felt the same things through the years.
It's nice to see a "dumb" comedy go such an extra mile.
we go on this expedition, go into the future to find out if we wrote the song, and one future 'us' refuses to tell us, and another future 'us' blames us for their lives because we didn't write the song, so they're living this terrible life. In one version we're in jail; in another we're at some kind of highway motel and they hate us."