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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter almost didn't 'Face the Music': The quest to make a third 'Bill & Ted' movie


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SOURCE: https://ew.com/movies/keanu-reeves-alex-winter-bill-ted-face-the-music/
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He actually dreamed up the characters with fellow UCLA graduate Chris Matheson during the first Reagan administration when both were still in their early 20s.“Ed and I and a few other friends, we were young guys who liked comedy, so we would just get together and kind of play,” says Matheson. ‘How’s it going, Bill?’ ‘How’s it going, Ted?’ They were very comfortable to us early on.”The pair continued to improvise as Bill and Ted when they visited a coffee shop later that night.“We went out and and for quite a while, I think at least a couple of hours, we just stayed in character,” says Matheson. It was just, of course, this is what they would say.”Directed by Stephen Herek (The Mighty Ducks), Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was released in February 1989 with Winter and Reeves in the titular roles and standup legend George Carlin playing Rufus, reimagined by Solomon and Matheson as the pair's from-the-future mentor. It was there that the writers suggested the quartet reteam for a new Bill & Ted movie.“They pitched Keanu and I this Dickensian, Christmas Carol-y look through [our characters’] lives past and future,” says Winter. “We thought it was a really great idea and the guys went off to write."Solomon and Matheson were insistent that the script fully reflect the fact that the two main characters had aged.“We didn’t want to do any kind of rehash or retread and we didn’t want to play to the gags,” says Solomon. That was the starting point.”Solomon and Matheson spent a year batting around ideas with the two actors and then wrote a first draft.“We wrote it on spec, which was kind of silly in certain ways, because we didn’t own any of the underlying material,” says Solomon. By the end of the aughts, Reeves was in the midst of a career slump thanks to a string of commercially underperforming films including the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still and 2013’s Man of Tai Chi. Solomon and Matheson found that some studio executives were interested in making a new Bill & Ted movie, but only if they could recast the two lead characters with younger actors. What you guys did, and other social media outlets when they picked up your [article], I think it made people go, ‘Oh, we were wrong.’ That was great news for us.”Solomon found the EW reunion to be a surprisingly emotional experience.“Alex and Keanu, even when we were talking about the movie, they never did Bill and Ted,” says the writer. "It was talking about Bill and Ted. In fact, that shoot that we did with you guys [in 2018], it was the first time I heard Alex and Keanu say 'Be excellent to each other, and 'Party on, dudes!' in 30 years. So, no, right out of the gate, Alex was phenomenal.”Reeves hopes the film's ultimately hopeful message will connect with fans of the original movies."People who come up to us — I think Alex has had the same experience — when when they speak about the films, it’s not 'these are two goofy guys,'" says the actor. That’s certainly something when we never expected and it's certainly a wonderful gift to have."Speaking to EW on the set of Bill & Ted Face the Music last year, Solomon insisted he was happy that the film took so long to get off the ground given the movie's message of love and positivity.“I actually think maybe we were lucky that we didn’t get this movie made six years ago,” said the writer.

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