Bill & Ted Star Alex Winter: New Sequel Will Be Really Fing Funny

Not only is the thirdBill & Tedfilm still in the works, but actor-director Alex Winter who co-starred in the original franchise as his excellency Bill S. Preston Esq. says the comedy sequel is shaping up to be really sweet and really fucking funny. Winter talks at length about the long-rumored project withYahoo Movies UK, noting that the film will focus on their iconic characters all grown up, or not grown up.

But its a Bill & Ted movie, thats what it is, Winter continues. Its for the fans of Bill & Ted. It fits very neatly in the [series]. Its not going to feel like a reboot. The conceit is really funny: What if youre middle-aged, havent really grown up and youre supposed to have saved the world and maybe, just maybe, you kinda havent?

The last installment in the franchise was 1991sBill & Teds Bogus Journey, but reports of a follow-up have been circulating over the past few years. The prospect looked grim as of last September, when Keanu Ted Reeves toldMTVthat a work-in-progress script penned by original co-writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon was being delayed by an unspecified darkness, but Winter sounds optimistic about the future of another bodacious adventure.

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Theres many versions of ourselves in this movie, he says. [Its] answering the question: What happened to these guys? Theyre supposed to have done all this stuff, they werent the brightest bulbs on the tree, what happened 20 years later? To answer that question in a comedic way felt rich with possibility.

Winter, Reeves, Matheson and Solomon took their time crafting the films central premise, but they arrived at a satisfactory story about four years ago. The problem, Winter says, is that newsof the project hit the media and now fans have to get dragged through this long, boring, protracted process of the movies development, which just takes a long time.