Keanu Reeves (Charmingly) Threatens the Writers of Bill & Ted 3

 "Dude, it's your Mom..."

I remember a quote that floated around for a while--and by “floating around” I mean it showed up in one of those time-filling “Reel Quotes” slide-shows Regal used to play before your movie. A typecasting-shy  Keanu Reeves said something along the lines of his biggest fear being that “Here lies Ted” would be written on his tombstone. Two decades can change a lot, and in the many years since Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey bowed, the sometimes sad Mr. Reeves has ironically become the most enthusiastic cheerleader of this long-due, possibly most excellent “threequel.”

While promoting Henry’s Crime at MTV, Keanu was prodded into revealing that Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson were about six weeks away from turning in a draft. He then also made some congenial threats directly to them about getting on track. What little about the plot he discussed involved a middle-aged Wyld Stallyns coping with how their big song didn’t actually save the world and subsequently obsessing over making that big break happen. Time travel would, of course, be involved.

So it’s basically John Connor’s “sitch” in the first act of T3…

Like I’ve said, I’m game for Bill & Ted 3 because  Bio-Dome and Dude, Where’s My Car? didn’t scratch that itch for me. However, I’m intrigued about how much this renewed interest has to do with trilogy completism. If movie #3 had come out in, say, Summer 1991, would there still be this kind of a talk for a fourth one?