Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure... Remake?

***VamPyroX*** · 04-04-2008, 01:05 PM

Yep, you read that right... a remake.

They're talking about doing a remake with 2 new guys and the story will be similar, but with different settings...

Instead of an old phone booth, it's a funky phone booth.

Instead of the band being called Wyld Stallyns, they're called Atomic Gorillas.

And... a few more.

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Another classic science fiction franchise is getting the "reboot" treatment, but its biggest star could be even harder to recast than William Shatner's Captain Kirk. A new Bill And Ted movie finally got the green light — probably from the same people at MGM who thought that War Games sequel was a good idea — and it could show up in the next couple of years. The biggest question: where are they going to find an actor who can bring the Keanu? Click through for details.

As in the original, Bill and Ted are high-school students who are in danger of flunking unless they create a "full presentation" on the subjects of all their classes. They travel through time and meet the historical figures they're supposed to have learned about, including Gandhi and Calamity Jane this time around.

The main differences are that the phone Bill and Ted use to travel through time isn't an old-school phone booth, but something "funkier." Their band is called the Atomic Gorillas instead of the Wyld Stallyns. The script is supposedly full of "hip" pop culture references for today's kids, like Bill and Ted worrying they're going to miss The Dark Knight. No clue whether there's a George Carlin character this time around, or who might play him. There are a lot fewer "Whoas."

I was a lot more excited about a new Bill And Ted when I briefly thought it would feature Keanu and Alex back in their original roles, playing middle-aged stoners who have made a mess of their lives in spite of all Carlin's predictions.

If we have to have a remake, maybe it can do something new and interesting with the concept — like instead of being the saviors of a future world, Bill and Ted are actually patsies, given a time machine by someone who wants to wreck history but doesn't want his/her fingerprints all over it. And then Bill and Ted have to undo all the damage they've done. That would be totally excellent.

Hmm... it's gonna be hard to replace Keanu Reeves.

LakeTahoe · 04-04-2008, 01:06 PM

Cool!!

Banjo · 04-04-2008, 03:34 PM

Whoa!

PowerON · 04-04-2008, 03:56 PM

I don't see pig fly in sky. I'm await.... la la la.

Oh yeah, someone told there is remake Short Circuit. I thought it would be interest...
'Short Circuit's' Johnny 5 still alive - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety

sara1981 · 04-04-2008, 06:06 PM

im really loves that movies when i was young and its would be so ROCK!!!!!!!!

***VamPyroX*** · 04-04-2008, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by PowerON

I don't see pig fly in sky. I'm await.... la la la.

Oh yeah, someone told there is remake Short Circuit. I thought it would be interest...
'Short Circuit's' Johnny 5 still alive - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety

Yep, I read about that a few weeks ago.

Banjo · 04-04-2008, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by VamPyroX

Yep, I read about that a few weeks ago.

Which is a bad, bad idea. They just announced the original for Blu-ray.

***VamPyroX*** · 04-04-2008, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Banjo

Which is a bad, bad idea. They just announced the original for Blu-ray.

Some movies are best left alone.

If it was a prequel or a sequel, fine... but a remake, not always a good idea.

Banjo · 04-04-2008, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by VamPyroX

Some movies are best left alone.

If it was a prequel or a sequel, fine... but a remake, not always a good idea.

Yeah, I agree. There are so many remakes these days. They are even planning to remake The Birds, Hellraiser, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on the Elm Street and more.

The Halloween remake was AWFUL.

***VamPyroX*** · 04-04-2008, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Banjo

Yeah, I agree. There are so many remakes these days. They are even planning to remake The Birds, Hellraiser, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on the Elm Street and more.

The Halloween remake was AWFUL.

Yeah.

I guess they're trying to excite the new crowd.

I have friends who enjoy the new Star Wars trilogy because it looks cool and hate the old Star Wars trilogy cuz it looks so fake.

I guess that's the purpose of these remakes.

Banjo · 04-04-2008, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by VamPyroX

Yeah.

I guess they're trying to excite the new crowd.

I have friends who enjoy the new Star Wars trilogy because it looks cool and hate the old Star Wars trilogy cuz it looks so fake.

I guess that's the purpose of these remakes.

Really, it's just to make as much money as they can out of these franchises.

About Star Wars, I am not really a big fan of these movies. But I do enjoy watching the original trilogy far more than I do when watching the prequels. In fact, I like that they used scale-models for the original trilogy. Made things looked much more real and more... fun. You know what I'm saying? Especially the battle at the beginning of Empire Strikes Back. Man, these were the days.

The T-Rex in the first Jurassic Park, now that's what I call a real-looking dinosaur. The dinosaurs in the new King Kong movie is nothing in comparison to the T-Rex in JP in the terms of realism.

I was disappointed with I Am Legend. The vampires... well... they were classified as vampires in the novel, they looked awful. They look pretty cartoony. The first half of the movie was pretty good until they showed the vampires. It went downhill from there. They should had used real actors with make-up on, maybe even use some CGI modifications like they did with Lord Voldemort in HP 4 and 5.

DVDFreaker · 04-06-2008, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by LakeTahoe

Cool!!

No remakes are cool, the remakes will NEVER NEVER NEVER be better than the original, period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steel X · 04-12-2008, 08:30 PM

Not even Ocean's 11 which was a remake and it was suprisingly an sucess eh?

Guess that sucks.

Deaf Mortgage · 04-21-2008, 05:01 PM

If they are going to remake any movies... The special effect has to be 100 time better and similar plot.

I was very glad that they waited to make "Transformer" until now. How can you remake the movie as it is already outstanding.

LuciaDisturbed · 04-29-2008, 04:41 PM

I don't think I would like the remake of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures. I loved the original when I was a kid.

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