{"id":974092,"date":"2019-12-17T11:52:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=928233"},"modified":"2019-12-17T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:52:32","slug":"keanu-reeves-alex-winter-return-to-trusty-phone-booth-in-first-bill-ted-3-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/keanu-reeves-alex-winter-return-to-trusty-phone-booth-in-first-bill-ted-3-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter Return to Trusty Phone Booth in First \u2018Bill &amp; Ted 3\u2019 Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/keanu-reeves\/\" id=\"auto-tag_keanu-reeves\" data-tag=\"keanu-reeves\">Keanu Reeves<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/alex-winter\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alex-winter\" data-tag=\"alex-winter\">Alex Winter<\/a> return to their trusty time-traveling phone booth and square with their old foe and bandmate, Death, in the first photos from the third installment of the <i>Bill and Ted<\/i> saga, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/keanu-reeves-alex-winter-bill-and-ted-face-the-music-release-date-810759\/\"><i>Bill and Ted Face the Music<\/i><\/a>, out August 21st, 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Face the Music<\/i> will be set several decades after the events of <i>Bogus Journey<\/i>, with Bill and Ted stuck in the doldrums of middle age and struggling to write the Wyld Stallyns song that was supposed to save the world. The pair then receive a visitor from the future, who warns them that their music remains the key to humanity\u2019s survival, prompting Bill and Ted, and their daughters, to embark on another time-hopping adventure.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_928241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"32\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-928241\" class=\"size-full wp-image-928241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Bill_Ted_Image-2.jpg\" alt=\"bill and ted\" width=\"1024\" height=\"625\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-928241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Orion Pictures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The new photos feature Bill and Ted in the time-traveling phone booth that\u2019s been central to all their journeys \u2014 plus there\u2019s also a still teasing what seems to be a rather contentious scene between Bill, Ted and Death. The pair famously squared off against Death (played by William Sadler) in a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/flashback-bill-and-ted-battle-the-grim-reaper-by-playing-battleship-629893\/\">board game competitions<\/a> in <i>Bill and Ted\u2019s Bogus Journey<\/i>, although ultimately made amends and started a band with the Grim Reaper. Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/movies\/2019\/12\/17\/bill-and-ted-face-the-music-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-first-look\/?utm_content=link&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_ew&amp;utm_term=8DF9E684-20E2-11EA-AB07-1FA896E8478F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><i>Entertainment Weekly<\/i><\/a>, director Dean Parisot said, \u201cDeath was in the band in the second film. Things didn\u2019t go all that well. But I\u2019ll leave it at that!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The third photo offered a look at three new additions to the cast: Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine as Bill and Ted\u2019s respective daughters, Thea and Billie, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kid-cudi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kid-cudi\" data-tag=\"kid-cudi\">Kid Cudi<\/a>, who gets roped into the journey as himself. \u201cHe plays Kid Cudi. He gets mysteriously thrown around through various times, because all time and space is coming unglued,\u201d Parisot said of the musician\u2019s role.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_928242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"32\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-928242\" class=\"size-full wp-image-928242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Bill_Ted_Image-3.jpg\" alt=\"bill and ted\" width=\"1024\" height=\"540\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-928242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Orion Pictures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Reeves and Winter first starred as Bill and Ted in 1989\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-lists\/10-best-stoner-movies-of-all-time-45850\/bill-and-teds-excellent-adventure-1989-51242\/\"><i>Bill and Ted\u2019s Excellent Adventure<\/i><\/a>, while the sequel, <i>Bogus Journey<\/i>, arrived in 1991. Along with Reeves and Winter<i>, Bill and Ted Face the Music<\/i> boasts a script from franchise creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/keanu-reeves-alex-winter-bill-and-ted-3-photos-928233\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter return to their trusty time-traveling phone booth and square with their old foe and bandmate, Death, in the first photos from the third installment of the Bill and Ted saga, Bill and Ted Face the Music, out August 21st, 2020. Face the Music will be set several decades after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 21:33:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}