Bill & Ted Face the Music, the long-awaited third installment in the Bill & Ted franchise, has been pushed back two weeks to avoid opening with Tenet. The new movie follows Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as their iconic characters from both 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and 1991’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. The films center around two teenagers who are told that their band, Wlyd Stallyns, will become the basis of a utopian society in the future, but only if they don’t flunk out of high school.
The news of the film’s delay comes from Variety. Bill & Ted Face the Music was scheduled to release on August 14, 2020, but has now been moved to August 28 to avoid opening alongside Tenet, which was just delayed again. Bill & Ted 3‘s release date has been shifted around a few times now. Some good news came at the same time as the movie’s delay, as it was also recently announced that there will be a Bill & Ted Face the Music panel at Comic-Con@Home.
Movie theaters have been closed since mid-March because of the coronavirus pandemic, but are slowly re-opening around the world. Another movie that was optimistically scheduled to open soon but has once again been delayed is Disney’s Mulan. The film’s original release date was March 27, 2020, but it has since been delayed twice, to August 21, 2020.
The first two Bill & Ted films have become cult classics since their releases. Bill & Ted Face the Music focuses on Reeves and Winter’s characters years later, now in middle-age. The film follows Bill and Ted as they realize their band has yet to create the song that will inspire their utopian society, and they now have 78 minutes left to do it to save the world.
