# Remake of "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" in the Works **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 6, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156 "2008-04-06T04:37:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156/61 "2008-04-09T11:58:30Z")
[QUOTE=Just Some Guy] Hey there was around half of a good movie there. In an unholy union with a horrifically awful one admittedly, but half a good movie. [/QUOTE] Ah yes. You nailed it there. Its got some nice bits “full on robot chubby” and death etc. The music was substandard fare from famous bands, and yeah, “Station”. It makes me cringe to even recall that. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156/62 "2008-04-09T12:36:07Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] “Execute them.” [/QUOTE] “Bogus…” ☹ (Dunno if that’s the actual next line in the movie.) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156/63 "2008-04-10T10:38:34Z")
[QUOTE=Just Some Guy] I’m picturing Napoleon Dynamite’s Excellent Adventure. That could work but I wouldn’t bet on it. As for the shortest time between remakes, the Maltese Falcon that is famous remade a film from ten years before it, the recent Funny Games similarly was a remake of a film ten years before, and if we go ahead with foreign to US film The Vanishing was a remake of a film released only five years older than it. [/QUOTE] [_Hell’s Angels_](http://imdb.com/title/tt0020960/trivia) was made in 1929, and when it didn’t test well, Howard Hughes remade it (this time with sound) the next year. [_Exorcist: The Beginning_](http://imdb.com/title/tt0204313/trivia) was basically finished when the studio fired the director and his replacement reshot the film. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156/64 "2008-04-10T17:07:07Z")
I really liked Bogus Journey. The way they sneak into heaven by quoting a Poison song is classic. They ruin it near the end though, with all the time-travel bullshit. “I know, after we escape I’ll time travel back and give myself the key to this cage.” (key magically appears) ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156/65 "2008-04-10T17:24:12Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t Call Me Shirley] I really liked Bogus Journey. The way they sneak into heaven by quoting a Poison song is classic. They ruin it near the end though, with all the time-travel bullshit. “I know, after we escape I’ll time travel back and give myself the key to this cage.” (key magically appears) [/QUOTE] Well, that was the same as in the first movie, and to be fair, they took it pretty far with the cage and the prop gun. > [@OpalCat](#): > > For one thing, didn’t they take the ice skating rink out? I used to live a couple of miles from that mall. Yup - that was like three iterations ago. Then it was a giant arcade, then it turned into a movie theater. I used to love that ice skating rink. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156/66 "2008-04-10T17:27:33Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t Call Me Shirley] They ruin it near the end though, with all the time-travel bullshit. “I know, after we escape I’ll time travel back and give myself the key to this cage.” (key magically appears) [/QUOTE] I find that to be excellent satire of time travel movies. ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156/67 "2008-04-10T18:51:46Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] That was my favorite joke in the movie. First you see a despondent Bill and Ted watching Kirk fighting a Gorn on a rocky hill on a distant planet. Then you see Robot B&T drag our heroes up _the very same hill_ in southern California [/QUOTE] That absolutely cracked me up. That and the fact that they included “James Tiberius Kirk” in cast list in the ending credits. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156/68 "2008-04-10T20:37:25Z")
The problem with the idea of a sequel about B&T in their '40s is that the ending of the second film made it very clear that Wyld Stallyns quickly becomes the most righteously successful band in history (despite the Reaper’s lip-synching scandal) and their music transforms all human society and stuff. Which, if you want an interesting story, requires either a very creative script, or some serious retcon. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156/69 "2008-04-10T20:41:05Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] The problem with the idea of a sequel about B&T in their '40s is that the ending of the second film made it very clear that [/QUOTE] Unless they wake up as homeless bums and George Carlin comes back-er, forward-no, no, it is back in the time machine to explain they have to fix something the bad guys screwed up. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156/70 "2008-04-10T20:47:10Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] The problem with the idea of a sequel about B&T in their '40s is that the ending of the second film made it very clear that Wyld Stallyns quickly becomes the most righteously successful band in history (despite the Reaper’s lip-synching scandal) and their music transforms all human society and stuff. Which, if you want an interesting story, requires either a very creative script, or some serious retcon. [/QUOTE] If you get a chance, read the Bill and Ted comic book series… ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156/71 "2008-04-10T21:48:28Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] I’m with you. I liked the second one as much as the first, though Station annoyed me. [/QUOTE] I loved the bit where they went to Hell: “We’ve been totally lied to by our album covers!” ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156/72 "2008-04-10T22:02:00Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] If you get a chance, read the Bill and Ted comic book series… [/QUOTE] Can you spoiler a brief summary? How did they get around the problem **BrainGlutton** describes? ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156/73 "2008-04-10T23:28:37Z")
[QUOTE=squeegee] Can you spoiler a brief summary? How did they get around the problem **BrainGlutton** describes? [/QUOTE] The basic gist was, while they were legendary and excellent, they were still…Bill and Ted. [Overview of series](http://www.billandted.org/comicinfo.html). ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156/74 "2008-04-10T23:35:39Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] Well, that was the same as in the first movie, and to be fair, they took it pretty far with the cage and the prop gun. Yup - that was like three iterations ago. Then it was a giant arcade, then it turned into a movie theater. I used to love that ice skating rink. [/QUOTE] Ah. I lived there when I was 18, back in 1990, and haven’t really been back [to the mall] since then, so… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-in-the-works/444156.md?page=3)