Ed Solomon offered an update on his and Bill and Ted co-writer Chris Matheson's Automatons movie, a long-gestating stop-motion animated project.
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In a joint Ed Solomon Chris Matheson interview, we talked to the writers of Bill and Ted Face the Music on their own excellent, sometimes, bogus, journeys.
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Bill and Ted original script pages were posted by Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure writer Ed Solomon, who described the inspirational journey he and co-writer Chris Matheson had bringing the story to the big screen.
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There are a whole lot of great people in Rapture-Palooza, written by Chris Matheson (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure) and directed by Paul Middleditch (Separation City). The film features Anna Kendrick and John Francis Daley as a young couple navigating the slightly hellish landscape of Earth after the Rapture. Craig Robinson is the Antichrist, and Rob Corddry, Rob…
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It's a good week to be John Francis Daley. His show Bones (which I still refuse to watch because it is not a continuation of the Snoop Dogg 'horror' film) was just renewed for a seventh season, and now he's been cast with Anna Kendrick in the Lionsgate post-apocalyptic romantic comedy called Rapture-Palooza. That's the…
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A year ago, Keanu Reeves said in an interview that he was "trying" to get a third Bill & Ted film made, and we weren't sure if he was joking. In retrospect, I'm not sure why we were doubtful -- it seems like every other popular film from the '80s and '90s is getting a…
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When Paramount picked up Paranormal Activity, which turned out to be a smash hit, the company helped push forward the idea of major studios making films on shoestring budgets. Paramount has been developing a program to make microbudget movies, and now Lionsgate has announced a 'microbudget' initiative that will ideally generate up to ten films…
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How did a third Bill and Ted movie become the '80s sequel that keeps coming up? Is there that much nostalgia for the middlebrow comedies of twenty years ago? Evidently so, as Keanu Reeves said during the Toronto Film Festival, "I’d love to play the role, I’d love to work with Alex [Winter] and [writers]…
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