Bill & Ted Face the Music Begins Filming!

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Bill & Ted Face the Music begins filming!

Keanu Reeves (John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum) and Alex Winter (The Lost Boys) are back as Orion Pictures’ upcoming Bill & Ted Face the Music has finally begun filming!

Monday. Crew call: 7:30. First shot: 9:00.

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) June 29, 2019

Party: on pic.twitter.com/ikum6Zowr3

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) July 1, 2019

Day one. See you on the other side and remember to be excellent @BillandTed3 pic.twitter.com/BHFQfsW7bd

— Alex Winter (@Winter) July 1, 2019

The threequel will also star Samara Weaving (The Babysitter, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Brigette Lundy-Paine (Atypical, The Glass Castle) as Bill and Ted’s daughters, respectively. William Sadler is also set to reprise his role as Death alongside franchise returners Amy Stoch and Hal London Jr. Newcomer Beck Bennett will play Ted’s younger brother, with Barry‘s Anthony Carrigan playing the villain.

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Stars Keanu Reeves (John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum) and Alex Winter (The Lost Boys) recently posted a video message from the Hollywood Bowl thanking fans for their support over the years on getting a third film made and owing them “a huge debt of gratitude” while also revealing production would be beginning this summer.

News of a third Bill & Ted film has been floating around for years. After Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, original creators Chris Matheson (Imagine That) and Ed Solomon (Men in Black, Now You See Me) have penned the script, with Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest, Fun with Dick and Jane) directing. Scott Kroopf (Limitless) will produce together with Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce of Hammerstone Studios, with Steven Soderbergh serving as an executive producer alongside Scott Fischer, John Ryan Jr. and John Santilli.

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MGM owns the rights to the film and will release in the U.S. under their Orion Pictures banner. Orion Pictures has set an August 21, 2020 release date for the film.

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