Before you yell ‘Most Excellent’ there is still a few ‘bogus’ things to work through before the world’s most unlikely time travelers arrive in the 2000s.
Keanu Reeves says the Bill & Ted 3 movie is nearly ready – but there are some big hurdles still in its way.
The 52-year-old actor – who stars opposite Alex Winter in the movie – told the Metro that the film’s return is being held up by the ‘business’ side of things.
The John Wick 2 star said: ‘Bill & Ted 3 is right now stuck in show business land so creatively we’re good to go but in the business sense, the rights and all of the complications and contracts that need to be made are not.’
But Keanu – who starred as Ted Logan in the 1989 movie and its sequel in 1991 – has teased some details from the upcoming film.
‘Bill &Ted are supposed to write the song that’s supposed to change the world but it hasn’t happened so they’re older now and they’re still trying to find out that song.
‘They’re possessed by it – their marriages are not quite working out and their kids are grown up.’
‘Future comes back and says if you guys don’t write this song, it’s not the world but the universe – all of time is going to break apart – so they’ve got more pressure and hijinks.’
Keanu said they are doing their best to get the story line perfect while all the business is dealt with.
He said at the time: ‘We’re closer and we’re not closer. We’re trying to get the story right. We’re working with this studio so we have a little bit of support, in a sense of like if the material comes through we’ll try and make this picture.’
Whilst Alex – who played Bill S. Preston Esq. in the original movies – told Forbes last year, they had everything ready to go.
The 51-year-old also teased that there would be some old and some new faces appearing in the third film.
He told the magazine: ‘The short answer is yes. I can’t really go further than that other than to say some people are going to returning from the original by the fact that they’re in it. There will be new people because obviously, sadly, Rufus (George Carlin) isn’t around anymore and they will be interesting actors too.’
