Bill and Ted Face the Music: long-awaited sequel confirmed

A third Bill and Ted movie is coming to cinemas, almost 30 years years after the duo’s last adventure.

Original stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have signed on to reprise the roles of California slackers Bill S. Preston and Theodore ‘Ted’ Logan in the new outing, entitled Bill and Ted Face the Music.

In a joint statement, the actors said they “couldn’t be more excited” to revisit their cult characters for the “threequel”, which has reportedly been in the works since 2010.

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“In recent years Winter and Reeves have been teasing a third installment - though without any formal announcement,” says Rolling Stone.

Bill and Ted were introduced to audiences in 1989 sci-fi comedy Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, in which the dim-witted high schoolers were transported through eras of history in a time machine.

The 1991 sequel, Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey was even wackier, ending with Bill and Ted’s band Wyld Stallyns performing in a Battle of the Bands contest with Death, robots and an alien.

While both movies received mixed reviews from critics, the films have since become cult classics, with the duo’s idiosyncratic parlance spawning catchphrases such as “Most excellent!” and “Party on, dudes!”.

According to Deadline, the new film will reintroduce the teenage metalheads as “middle-aged men with family responsibilities who have yet to fulfill their destiny”.

After a visitor from the future “warns the duo that only their music can save life as we know it”, the pair embark on a time-travel adventure to save the world, “with the help of their daughters, a new crop of historical figures and some sympathetic music legends”.

News that Reeves and Winter would be “reforming” Wyld Stallyns met with a mixed reception, with some fans jubilant and others wondering whether the world needs to see Bill and Ted as fifty-somethings:

There is no release date yet for Bill and Ted Face the Music, which is currently in pre-production.