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Bill and Ted 3 - should they follow the newspaper headlines?


Do you think it would be a good idea (or not) for Bill and Ted 3 to follow the "epilogue" (if you want to call it that) of the movie? (You know - Wyld Stallyns playing the Grand Canyon, the Moon, Death winning the Indy 500, etc)? Or should the just ignore all that...after all, if the sequel is going to be set 20 years later, we are sure going to have missed a Hell of a lot, LoL!

Would you like to see a forty-something Bill and Ted, who should now all be world famous? Or are we going to see a Bill and Ted who won the Battle of the Bands, but then somehow squandered their chance at fame and their place in history? Is Death and Station still going to be in their band? I mean LITERALLY The Grim Reaper and an alien from another galaxy? :-)

LoL...I don't mind...I just kind of wonder, is it going to be a bit difficult for it all to work today?

(personally, though, I would give ANYTHING to see William Sattler as Death again!)

I suppose, given that this is a time travel movie, ANYTHING and EVERYTHING is possible...but I'd just like to hear people's thoughts :-)

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They might follow the headlines, and it's a good point you bring up. But from early reports the original idea thrown around was that it would be twenty or so years later and Bill and Ted have yet to write the song that unites the world in peace.

Unfortunately I can't find a link to this. Bue here's a link from an interview with Alex Winter where he brings everyone up to date about the film.

Either way I hope the film still holds true to the originals. Bill and Ted may seem like ignorant asses, but they are such nice guys and all you do is root for them. I hope the film follws that and that the comedy doesn't become toilet humor. I grew up with these films and I still feel they hold up.

Here's that link

http://www.slashfilm.com/alex-winter-explains-why-we-havent-seen-bill-and-ted-3-yet/

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Yeah, the upcoming B&T3 reminds me of Back to the Future, how Doc's "Where we're going we don't need roads" from Part 1 was just a joke, but they were pigeonholed into writing Part 2 that way once the sequels materialized.

How much longer after 1991 do you think most of those headlines were from? Remember they went away to get good and came back at the very end with their ZZ Top beards, so I always thought pretty soon after, by '94 or certainly by the late 90s, with them becoming pretty legendary by 2000.

It'd be interesting if it progressed differently than we thought, or if they struggled for many years and achieved success much later in their career (like now). Their sons, "Little" Bill & Little Ted would be 21 or 22 now themselves, so B&T could be mentoring and rocking out with them too, which would be cool to see in Part 3!

Maybe they only had some moderate success in the 90s, then fell into obscurity for awhile, then got legendary in their early-mid 40s now in 2013 with a huge comeback.

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George carlin dead. Movie is pointless

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Yeah because a movie about Bill and Ted can't go ahead because a minor character's actor died. Rufus is not important to the story. He was only in Bogus Journey for 5 minutes tops.

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And, as much as like love George, just get another grumpy comedian like Lewis Black or Patton Oswalt!

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I love George Carlin, the guy was an amazing social commentator, but this is one of the few movies George had a scene in where he really wasn't "being himself" in a sense, so it's not like somebody else couldn't do Rufus.

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http://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/568964/get-bill-ted-3

Post by blackoutcreature on 6 hours ago
Shortly after Carlin's death I had an idea for a Bill & Ted movie. By Bill and Ted's perspective, it would take place after they've become the superstars who reshaped society. They would be called to the future with sad news of Rufus' peaceful passing so as to attend his funeral. While there people start disappearing and world around them starts changing. They figure out that a follower of DeNomolos (possibly DoNomolos himself, although that seems unlikely with Joss Ackland pushing 90) went back in time and killed Rufus as a teenager, so an older Rufus would never have a chance to go back in time to save Bill & Ted in the first move.

Bill & Ted go back in time and manage to save teenage Rufus, but this Rufus grew up in a timeline with no Wyld Stallyns, so even with him alive he still has no idea who they are or why he should care if their band is successful or not. So now the middle-aged Stallyns and the teenage Rufus have to go on a multiple timeline adventure to inspire Rufus to become the man that would inspire The Wyld Stallyns to become the band that would shape future society and save the world.

I wanted a bigger part for the Princess Babes too, with them having a significant part in the plot. I pictured a running gag where one of them has fully acclimated to modern times, using cell phones and cars and acting as the bands business manager, while the other one still doesn't completely understand how to use a microwave.

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missy marries de nomolos.

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