Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter confirm Bill & Ted 3 is officially happening

It’s time to party on, dudes, because Bill & Ted 3 is like totally happening. Three decades on from their Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey, the heavy-metal loving doofuses Bill S. Preston, Esq (Alex Winter) and Ted 'Theodore' Logan (Keanu Reeves) will once again be going on an adventure through time and space.

The belated sequel to 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and 1991’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey was announced at Cannes Film Festival yesterday. Winter and Reeves are both confirmed to reprise their roles, and the films’ original writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon are back on script duty. Dean Parisot, best known for sweet space adventure satire Galaxy Quest, will direct.

In a statement, Reeves and Winter commented on the reunion: “We couldn’t be more excited to get the whole band back together again,” they said. “Chris and Ed wrote an amazing script, and with Dean at the helm we’ve got a dream team!” Winter also confirmed the long-rumoured third film by Twitter:

We’re tuning the air guitars. #BT3

— Alex Winter (@alxwinter) May 8, 2018

Titled Bill & Ted Face the Music, the new film concerns a middle-aged Bill and Ted, who haven’t yet fulfilled their rock'n'roll dreams with Wyld Stallyns, despite the triumphant ending of Bogus Journey, in which they went back in time to become great musicians and crushed it at a Battle of the Bands with their rendition of Kiss' God Gave Rock and Roll to You. Their musical talents will be required to save the world when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. “Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends,” we’re told.

The Bill & Ted movies are much loved by movie goers of a certain generation, but it sounds like it’s been a challenge to convince a studio to finance this sequel: “The whole trajectory of getting the next one off the ground has been pretty much exactly like the experience of getting the original [made],” Winter told Entertainment Weekly. “Going to every studio, and they’re like, ‘What the eff is this?’ It’s this kind of independent spirit, and the films have an anachronistic quality to them that’s a big part of what they are, fundamentally. I’m really happy that this one is the same. It doesn’t feel like some stale knock-off that a studio would have immediately gone, ‘Oh, this feels right. We have rebranded very successfully.’”

They’ve certainly found some big name support in the form of the bodacious Steven Soderbergh, who will serve as an executive producer.

No release date has been set as yet, but we’ll let know know if we hear more. Until then, be excellent to each other.