![]() We immediately started looking for a director and found Stephen Herek. Everyone around town knew it and loved it, not only for its incredibly goofy, funny quality but for the way Chris and Ed used language to create a whole ‘Bill & Ted’ speak and unique take on friendship. Scott Kroopf (Producer): The script was on the Black List. With the script finalised, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure enters pre-production backed by legendary Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis… It seemed to blow a hole in the reality of the film, so to fix that we had an idea that made us laugh: What if 700 years from now their music literally saves the world? We then switched the title to Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Rufus was a 27-year-old high school sophomore and drove a van that travelled through time for no reason we cared to explain, probably because we didn’t know how. Of course, we couldn’t do that.ĮS: was called ‘Bill & Ted’s Time Van’ and had most of what the movie has although there were some significant changes. I don’t know where they picked him up, maybe the bunker. Our original script featured Hitler – just take out Napoleon and put in Hitler. It was really fast because we knew them so well. Whenever my hand got tired, I’d hand the pen to Ed and he’d write for a while and when he got tired, he’d do the same. We spent seven days in a cafe in Lake Tahoe doing a detailed, handwritten outline, then four days in an LA coffee shop doing a crazy rough draft.ĬM: Once we put pen to paper we’d just go back and forth writing dialogue. That began a process of trying to figure out what that’d be. By the time we decided to put them in a movie, we knew them pretty well.ĮS: It was actually Chris’ father, the famous science fiction writer Richard Matheson, who suggested these guys could have a whole movie to themselves. We wrote letters back and forth as Bill and Ted and had phone conversations as Bill and Ted. We stayed in character and got to know them, building their back stories: their dads, moms, siblings, and relationship with each other. Chris and I loved playing the characters so much we went to a coffee shop later that night and continued goofing around doing them.ĬM: We liked them from the start. ![]() Originally it was three guys: Bill, Ted and a character named Bob who has long since gone away. We rented this little theatre in Hollywood so we could do improv and Bill and Ted emerged one night.ĮS: It was Chris who suggested we do a couple of guys who were studying history but knew nothing about history. We were similar in certain ways and different in certain ways but there was an overlap of what we thought was funny. We shared this unique, ridiculous sense of humour and became like pre-school children who just play in their own little fantasy world – much to the annoyance of people in our close vicinity.Ĭhris Matheson (Screenwriter): I realised Ed was a kindred spirit. ![]() Students Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon meet at UCLA and form a fast friendship that quickly leads to the formation of Bill and Ted…Įd Solomon (Screenwriter): Chris and I met in a playwriting class. With bodacious threequel Bill & Ted Face The Music finally shredding its way into cinemas, we chronicle the creation of the film that started it all, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, with writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, director Stephen Herek, producer Scott Kroopf and star Alex Winter… *Air guitar* ![]()
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