'Bill & Ted Face the Music': All you need to know about the Keanu Reeves comedy

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'Bill & Ted Face the Music': All you need to know about the Keanu Reeves comedy

Cinema’s favourite slacker friends have to save the whole universe

Published: September 10, 2020 18:00 Marwa Hamad, Senior Reporter

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Bill and Ted face the music — ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ continues on the legacy of the sci-fi comedy franchise, 30 years after it all began. The first film, ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’, released in 1989, gaining cult status. ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey’ in 1993 came next, and though it received mixed reviews, it eventually gained popularity amongst the franchise’s followers. Image Credit: Supplied

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1.2218617-203835225 — The third and latest film is a long-awaited sequel, where actor Alex Winter reprises his role as Bill and Keanu Reeves returns and Ted. Image Credit: AP

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In the first film in 1989, we meet slacker best friends Bill and Ted as high schoolers, who travel through time to collect historical figures for their history presentation. The tag line? “History is about to be rewritten by two guys who can’t spell.” The movie spurred on a movement amongst fans, causing the franchise to expand into different mediums, including a 1992 animated series — with both Winter and Reeves reprising their roles — and video games. Image Credit: Supplied

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Bill and Ted Bogus Journey — In the second film, released in 1991, the lyrics of Bill and Ted’s band, Wyld Stallyns, has caused a utopian society to form in the future. A villain from the future sends evil android doubles of Bill and Ted back in time to kill the two boys and replace them. Image Credit: YouTube

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Bill and Ted comic book — Marvel Comics created a one-shot comic book and released it at the same time that the sequel released. It included deleted scenes. The comic was so successful that Marvel decided to commission an entire spin-off series titled ‘Bill & Ted’s Comic Book’, which ran for 12 issues. Image Credit: Supplied

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Bill and Ted poster — The ‘Bill & Ted’ franchise is known for its fairly low budgets. The first film cost $10 million to make and made $40.5 million at the box office. The second film, less successful than the first, only made $38 million at the US box office, compared to its $20 million budget. Finally, ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ set producers back by $25 million. On what they want audiences to get out of it, both Reeves and Winter seemed to want to give their viewers a break from the real world. “Just to laugh, to enjoy the ride, to, you know, feel good, feel positive, and share that, spread that around,” Reeves told NPR. Winter added: “There’s a lot of whimsy, and I think an hour and a half of genuine, open-hearted, innocent whimsy may not be the worst thing for people.” Image Credit: IMDB

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