George Carlin Will Be A Deep Part of ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’

It has been 27 years since we last saw the time traveling duo of Bill and Ted. We first saw the two in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure in 1989 when the best friends set out on a quest to put on the ultimate historical presentation by bringing historical figures to the then modern 1980s with the help of Rufus (George Carlin) and a phone booth time machine. Over the years there has been talk about getting the team back together for a third film but the project has stalled along the way. Writer Ed Solomon, who wrote the original script, has revealed some new details on the film and what is holding it up this time around.

In a lengthy interview with Digital Spy, Solomon explained how the next Bill & Ted film will deal with Carlin’s passing and his character Rufus, saying:

“George Carlin is so deeply missed by all of us. There is a… not just an homage to him, it’s more than that. His absence is a part of the whole movie.”

“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.

“They return to that scene at the Circle K when Bill and Ted first meet themselves, only now they’re watching their younger selves and looking at the exuberance and joy that they had at that time in their lives. And they see Rufus, they see George Carlin…

“There’s also a character in the movie named Kelly, which is George’s daughter’s name, who has a very significant role in the journey, so George is a deep, deep part of it.”

In Bill & Ted Face the Music Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves play middle-aged versions of Bill and Ted, who are now family men rather than young aspiring musicians, making it a sequel and according to Solomon. Which seems to be one of the problems that the film is facing.

“We are having issues raising money for it, getting it financed, because what we get all the time – all the time – is people wanting to reboot it.”

“It’s ‘Let’s do Bill & Ted with new teenagers’, but what we wanna do is the story of Bill and Ted as middle-aged men, and tell what we think could be a really funny, and actually really moving, story about their lives and where they are now – their families, their kids…”

Apparently studios are hesitating to back the film because they are not sure if the film will make any money.

Would you pay to see a third Bill & Ted film? Let us know in the comment section below.

About Chris Salce

I'm a pop culture fanatic based out of Southern California. My collection of comics and pop culture memorabilia would even impress The Collector. When I'm not busy writing about pop culture news, doing film reviews or interviewing celebs, my brother and I work on a comic book called Blood-RED (And yes, that was a cheap plug). I have a certificate of completion for a children’s storybook writing program.

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