No./ 1

Why Bill & Ted

are the heroes

we need now

BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC

is finally en route. The

director explains why it’s

arriving at just the right time

faced down Genghis Khan, the Easter Bunny, evil

robot versions of themselves, Satan, Death and

their pissed-off dads, all without losing their cool.

And so perhaps their long-awaited return to the

screen in 2020 is exactly what Earth needs.

“These two characters are sort of ludicrous

optimists, who keep regrouping and attacking

anything in their way,” refl ects Dean Parisot,

the director of this year’s Bill & Ted Face

The Music. “Now they’re in their late forties —

middle age — but they’re still best friends, and

they still approach the world in the same way.”

Back in the late ’80s, they became an

instantly iconic comedy double-act, thanks to

breezy but fully committed performances by

Keanu Reeves (Ted) and Alex Winter (Bill) as

the unfl appable, pure-hearted bozos. Yet neither

WHEN THE WORLD is in turmoil, when times

are dark, when all seems lost, true heroes are

required. Specifi cally, two sunny-souled,

slang-spewing slackers from San Dimas in

California named Bill S. Preston Esquire and

Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan. In their previous antic

outings, 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

and 1991’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, the duo

THIS MONTH’S FILM MOMENTS THAT MATTER

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EDITED BY JOHN NUGENT

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