Alex Winter is reprising his role of Bill S. Preston, Esq. in Bill and Ted: Face the Music, but here’s what he’s been doing since Bogus Journey. Hollywood stardom can be very fleeting. A performer can be a hot commodity one minute, and yesterday’s news the next. Considering how many thousands of actors and actresses the Hollywood machine chews up and spits out each year, it’s only an exceedingly rare few that manage to make acting in movies and TV shows a decades-long vocation.
One such person to do that is Keanu Reeves, the man behind Ted “Theodore” Logan in the Bill and Ted movies. Not only has Reeves managed to stay active and relevant in Hollywood for over three decades now, but he’s also managed to rise to the even more elusive level of A-list movie star. By contrast, his Bill and Ted co-star Winter all but completely vanished from screens following Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, to the point many might assume he left the business entirely.
Yet, even though that’s the case, one needn’t worry about Winter or pity his fall in notoriety. Winter didn’t leave show business at all, he just got a different job within it, one that sent him behind the camera.
What Happened to Alex Winter After Bill & Ted 2
Following his role in Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, Alex Winter shifted focus from acting to directing. This began with the oddball 1993 comedy Freaked, which saw Winter co-direct, co-write, and play the lead role. While it received a very limited theatrical release in the U.S, Freaked eventually developed a cult following, receiving a packed 2-disc DVD release in 2005 that’s now sadly out of print. After helming a few music videos, Winter wrote and directed his first solo feature with 1999’s Fever, a murder mystery starring Henry Thomas and Teri Hatcher. In 2007 and 2009, Winter directed two live-action features based on Cartoon Network’s popular animated series Ben 10.
Beginning in 2013, Winter made a successful journey into directing documentaries, starting with Downloaded, which focused on Napster and how downloading music led to the online music revolution. 2015’s Deep Web focused on a dark web black market called Silk Road, and actually saw Keanu Reeves provide the narration. 2018’s The Panama Papers focused on the titular global corruption scandal, and the journalists that exposed it. Winter’s next project, which has completed production, is a documentary looking at the life and career of musician Frank Zappa. Winter has continued to act on occasion as well, appearing on an episode of Bones and Into the Dark, and cameoing in most of his directorial work.
Key Release Dates
Bill and Ted 3
Release Date:2020-08-28
