We can’t wait to see Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter return Bill and Ted face the music. 31 years have passed since her Excellent adventure and 29 from his Fake journey, but the characters go back even before Reeves and Winter played them.
Reeves and Winter were on a panel at San Diego Comic-Con @ Home to Face the consequences. They were joined by the creators of the characters, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. The writers explained who played the great musicians before they even wrote the first movie. Bill and Ted face the music is in theaters and VOD on September 1.
Before Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, the first Bill & Ted
Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure It was the first film script produced by Matheson and Solomon. Solomon had written some episodes of Laverne and Shirley in 1982 and 1983. It was then that they created Bill and Ted together.
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“It started in 1983,” said Matheson. “Ed and I did a small jam group with some friends, not for an audience, just to play with characters and comedy. So the suggestion was two teenagers studying history who know nothing about history. We just started playing with these guys and we liked them instantly. We found them really fun instantly. We just started playing them. “
Their only public performance of Bill and Ted
Solomon and Matheson created the characters in a private group. They only performed them publicly once.
“They are such a fun character to inhabit that we were doing it for fun,” said Solomon. “We did it once in front of an audience at UCLA. We asked questions like Bill and Ted and basically everything was excellent or false as far as I remember. They were so much fun to play that we had fun for a year. ”
They kept playing Bill & Ted before writing the script
Most of Bill and Ted’s development continued privately between Matheson and Solomon.
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“We just played with them,” said Matheson. “We talked on the phone like Bill and Ted, we wrote letters back and forth like Bill and Ted, we just loved it. They were really fun to be around, long before we thought we’d put them in a movie or something. We just enjoy them. “
Letting Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter take over
For the moment Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure filmed in 1988, Solomon and Matheson had played the characters for years. It was bittersweet to let them go.
“It was difficult for us to imagine who would take the characters,” said Solomon. “We were not involved in the casting process [but] We were in Arizona, where the movie was about to be shot. We were in line at a McDonald’s and we were actually complaining to each other, ‘I bet whoever gets picked will never be able to do it the way we expected.’ ”
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When they finally encountered Reeves e Winter, they were happy with the options.
“Then there were these two guys in line in front of us at McDonald’s just fooling around and talking to each other,” continued Solomon. “Chris and I thought, ‘Now those should be the people who play Bill and Ted.’ We ended up on set for the first rehearsal and it was Alex and Keanu.”
