Earlier this week, we learned that after years of delays and budgeting issues, Bill & Ted 3 has finally been greenlit! There were roadblocks but now lex Winter ("Bill" S. Preston Esq.) and Keanu Reeves ("Ted" Theodore Logan) will be once again seen on the big screen soon, as MGM has purchased the domestic rights to the film and the film is being shopped around at Cannes to international distributors.
In a new interview with Collider, co-writer Ed Solomon gave the most in-depth description of the what the plot of the film, tentatively titled Bill & Ted Face the Music, is:
Bill and Ted were told at 16 that they were going to be the greatest people who ever lived. That they were gonna write a song that is going to save the world, and it hasn’t happened. And now they are middle-aged men. They’ve got wives who used to be princesses in medieval England who are now working double shifts at Denny’s, they’ve got teenagers that are about to leave home, money is tight, and they’ve been chasing this dream, writing song after song, when somebody from the future shows up and says, “You have 24 hours. The fate of all of space/time depends on it – and if it doesn’t happen now, it’s never gonna happen.” Bill and Ted are confused because they know they had to have written it, because after all the people in the future told them they did.. so they just must not have written it yet. So in their desperation they decide their only option is to go into the future – to when the have written it – and to steal it from themselves. What follows is a kind of utterly absurd, Christmas Carol-like journey through their lives past, present, and future. Their daughters (Bill has a daughter named Thea, Ted’s daughter is named Billie) are also very involved in trying to help them.
He describes the daughter characters as "brilliant and ridiculous and sweet" and MetalSucks speculates that could mean that bill & Ted raised actual geniuses who end up having to put up with bumbling dads, which could make for some fun scenes.
It sounds like a pretty solid foundation for a movie and ripe for comedy with the two generations working together. Read the entire Collider interview here for more tidbits about the movie.
