Keanu Reeves is taking the next step in his career as a first-time director, but he’s still talking about going back to his early days as a young actor with a possible third film in the Bill & Ted series. The 1989 and 1991 cult comedies helped launch his career and there’s always talk about a third film, but Reeves said that there’s “darkness” preventing it from happening.
Reeves is currently in Toronto to promote Man of Tai Chi, his directorial debut. While chatting with MTV though, the subject of Bill & Ted 3 came up.
“It's a long story,” he said about the long-gestating project. “There's lots of subterfuge and conspiracy theories. There's a whole thing... I might have to do one of those independent press, conspiracy, other-name kind of [statements] explaining why it hasn't happened yet, because it's pretty dark out there.”
While he did sound like he was joking about it, Reeves said that there is a script, but “There's all sorts of stuff and it just can't — it's just — there's darkness out there that's keeping it from happening.” He added, “It's that part of the story where it's looking grim. It's the dark period of the idea!”
The two Bill & Ted films have become cult classic comedies. They starred Reeves as Ted and Alex Winter as Bill. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure was released in 1989 and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey followed in 1991.
According to TheWrap, Winter did recently speak with Slash Film about Bill & Ted 3, saying that news about a third film reached the press too early in the process. He said that the writers just began working on the film and “Then you’ve got the whole genesis of putting it together in front of you still, which is where we are at now.”
Reeves’ Man of Tai Chi was released in China this summer and he appears in 47 Ronin, which hits theaters in December.
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