Party on, dudes! Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter finally CONFIRM Bill & Ted 3

The duo announced the bodacious news at the Cannes Film Festival 
Official: Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves are returning as Bill and Ted
Emma Powell9 May 2018
The Weekender

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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have ended a 27-year wait to confirm a third Bill & Ted is finally happening.

The duo will reunite for Bill & Ted Face the Music, with a script penned by original creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon and directed by Galaxy Quest’s Dean Parisot.

Reeves and Winter said: “We couldn’t be more excited to get the whole band back together again.

“Chris and Ed wrote an amazing script, and with Dean at the helm, we’ve got a dream team!”

They're back: Slacker duo Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves have ended the lengthy wait 

Winter also tweeted the news, posting: “We’re tuning the air guitars. #BT3.”

The new film, which is currently in pre-production, will follow on from 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and 1991’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey which starred Reeves as Ted Theodore Logan and Winter as Bill S. Preston, Esq..

It will reportedly follow the slacker duo as they hit middle age and continue their quest to write the greatest song ever written. They will jump back into time travel after a figure from the future warns that their song is the only way to save the world.

The wait is over: Fans of the comedy duo have waited nearly 30 years for a reunion

The announcement comes two years after Reeves teased fans with the news that they were getting “closer” to finalising a script.

“We’re closer and we’re not closer,” he told IGN. “We’re expecting another draft and hopefully we’ll get closer.

“We’re just trying to get the script together. We’re trying to get the story right. We’re working with this studio so we have a little bit of support, in a sense of like if the material comes through we’ll try and make this picture. We’re really just still trying to get the story right.”

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