Alex Winter On "Bill & Ted 3"

The seemingly stalled comedy sequel "Bill & Ted 3" is being talked about again.

Original "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" scribes Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon wrote the script for a third film in the series on spec. Rather than a remake or reboot the film is a sequel exploring where Ted Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) are today 20 years after Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. The script was well received by all accounts.

Dean Parisot ("Galaxy Quest") had been attached to direct the film.

Recently, Winter spoke to Yahoo and confirmed those reports about the movie storyline:

"[Bill & Ted] will be 40-something and it's all about Bill and Ted grown up, or not grown up. It's really sweet and really f---ing funny. But, it's a Bill & Ted movie, that's what it is. It's for the fans of Bill & Ted. It fits very neatly in the series. It's not going to feel like a reboot. The conceit is really funny: What if you're middle-aged, haven't really grown up and you're supposed to have saved the world and maybe, just maybe, you kinda haven't? There's many versions of ourselves in this movie. [It's] answering the question: 'What happened to these guys?' They're supposed to have done all this stuff, they weren't the brightest bulbs on the tree, what happened 20 years later? To answer that question in a comedic way felt rich with possibility."

Both actors and scribes have been trying to move things been pulling things along over the years:

"The thing we had going against us is that word got out. That was kind of a bummer. It just takes a long time to put a movie together. Now we're having to build this thing in public, which is fine. I just feel bad the fans have to get dragged through this long, boring, protracted process. I guess about four years ago we had an idea together that we thought was pretty great. It took time to construct the idea, it took Chris and Ed time to build the first draft. Then we put a producer together and got a director. We've been working on drafts for the last couple of years. The script's been finished for a while, but comedy is so specific. We're in that world where producers are on, financiers are on and we're just working and reworking the script."