Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Leave the Door Open for BILL & TED 4
It sounds like Bill & Ted might have one more excellent adventure in store.
While currently sharing the stage in their Broadway run of Waiting for Godot, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter recently hinted that they’re not quite done with their time-traveling alter egos.
The play, which opened last month and is scheduled to run through January 2026, has reunited the two longtime friends, and naturally, the question of another Bill & Ted movie came up.
When asked by Variety if they’d be up for Bill & Ted 4, Reeves didn’t hesitate. “Yes and yes,” he said.
That short and enthusiastic answer was enough to send fans into wild speculation about what a fourth movie could look like. After all, it’s been over three decades since Reeves and Winter first stepped into the shoes of Ted Logan and Bill S. Preston in the 1989 sci-fi comedy Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
In that film, Bill and Ted are two well-meaning but academically challenged high schoolers who risk failing history class, which could send Ted off to military school. Their fate, and apparently the fate of humanity, takes a surprising turn when Rufus, a traveler from the future played by George Carlin, arrives in a time-traveling phone booth to help them ace their presentation.
Together, they hop through history collecting figures like Napoleon, Socrates, and Joan of Arc to save their grades and, inadvertently, the world.
Directed by Stephen Herek, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure became a surprise hit, earning $40.5 million worldwide and glowing reviews. The sequel, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, followed in 1991 with a slightly darker, weirder tone and a smaller box office return at $38 million. Despite that, both films evolved into cult classics that still resonate with fans today.
Nearly thirty years later, the duo reunited once again for Bill & Ted Face the Music in 2020. This time, the lovable slackers were middle-aged dads tasked with writing a song powerful enough to save humanity itself.
The film featured a supporting cast that included Kristen Schaal, Samara Weaving, Anthony Carrigan, Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mays, Holland Taylor, Kid Cudi, William Sadler, and Jillian Bell.
Unfortunately, because it was released in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bill & Ted Face the Music only grossed $6.3 million worldwide.
Even so, it was a heartfelt reunion that reminded fans why they loved these characters in the first place, and it clearly reignited something between Reeves and Winter.
Winter and Reeves will start to shop it around.
Winter previously talked about a fourth film, saying: "We're tinkering with a fourth movie idea that all of us like, and the guys are going to write, so we'll see. It takes us time to get these things going, and we never want to do them unless they're great."
Winter went on to say that the movie will only happen if he, Reeves, Solomon, and Matheson are all happy with the script. He also explained that they have a really good idea for the next chapter of Bill and Ted’s story:
"They feel the same way, it has to be right. We love [the Bill & Ted movies] because they're oddball, and they're not typical mainstream films. They've never been cash-grab movies; nobody has gotten rich off the Bill and Ted series.
“We really do make them sincerely from a place of love and interest. There's a really good idea that the writers came up with for a fourth that's kind of obvious. I don't want to give it away -- I can't give it away because I would be drawn and quartered -- but it is a really good idea, an obvious idea. It will get written, and we'll see if we can actually get it made."
While there’s no official development news on Bill & Ted 4, the fact that both stars are open to returning is encouraging. The last film ended on a hopeful, harmonious note, but with this franchise, there’s always room for another trip through time.
If Reeves and Winter really are ready to bring Bill and Ted back for one last ride, fans can only say one thing: Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes.