Bill & Ted Face the Music will reunite us with Bill S. Preston Esquire (Alex Winter) and Ted Theodore
Logan (Keanu Reeves) as middle aged family men, but according to Solomon, their journey back to
the big screen has been more difficult than a game of chess with the grim reaper.
“We have been working for almost 10 years to get this thing made; Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, Chris
Matheson, me… we have a director – Dean Parisot, who did Galaxy Quest– Steven Soderbergh is one
of our producers. We have a wonderful assembly of people.
“We have a script that we really are proud of, that we worked very hard on, that we’ve done many
iterations of – and we did it on spec, meaning we spent years working on it because we wanted to
get it right, creatively.
“This is not, ‘Hey let’s all cash-in on the Bill & Ted thing for money’ – this is the opposite. This is, ‘We
love these characters, they’ve been with us for our whole lives’ – Chris and me, and Alex and Keanu –
and we wanted to visit them again as middle-aged men. We thought it would be really fun, and
funny, and sweet.
Solomon also spoke at length about how the script would incorporate Rufus, with Bill & Ted
travelling back in time in order to interact with their young selves and George Carlin’s character using
footage from Excellent Adventure.
“There’s actually a scene – one of my favourite scenes in the whole movie – where middle-aged, 50-
year-old Bill and Ted return to the Circle K and see their teen selves and Rufus, and actually interact
with their teenage selves, played by their actual teenage selves.”
Finally, Solomon went on to discuss the frustrations in getting their script the greenlight, citing the
financiers desire for a reboot with teenage kids rather than a sequel, and the worry that because the
original was a cult hit, there really wouldn’t be the audience to justify the expenditure.
