It’s been about six months since Alex Winter tweeted that the script for Bill & Ted 3 had been completed. Winter, who played Bill S. Preston, Esquire, in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey nearly twenty years ago, hasn’t acted much since then, opting for a career behind the camera and behind the scenes, but he has joined co-star Keanu Reeves in saying that if the script was good, and if original writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon were involved, he would be interested in revisiting the character that made him (briefly) a household name.Reeves, of course, is by far the more famous of the pair now, having starred in dozens of high-grossing movies ranging from Shakespeare remakes the The Matrix Reloaded, which nobody could confuse with Shakespeare. He’s made some vaguely enthusiastic comments about the possibility of a third Bill & Ted movie but this weekend took it to the next level, confirming that the script is indeed finished and telling The Independent that he’s happy with it, Sky News Australia reports.”When we last got together, part of it was that Bill and Ted were supposed to have written the song that saved the world, and it hasn’t happened,” explained Reeves of the film’s plot, which has long been rumored to involve middle-aged Bill and Ted traveling back in time to save the world.Rumors have had characters like Socrates and Billy the Kid returning, while Eddie Van Halen is expected to make an appearance. Van Halen was referenced in the original film but did not appear, while the music community was pretty well-represented by Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Gos (who played Joan of Arc) and Clarence Clemons, saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, who played one of the “three most important people in the world,” who were initially responsible for sending Rufus back in time and kickstarting the film’s plot. The second film featured appearnces by “Big” Jim Martin of Faith No More, guitarist Brad Delson (who would go on to join Linkin Park) and the entire band Primus.
