Straight to DVD BILL & TED adventure?

So the straight to DVD remake of The Lost Boys looks just as bad as we thought it might but it won’t stop this nasty new trend of releasing half baked continuations of franchises which should stay well left dead.

Disney were the first studio I remember doing this kind of thing when they released god awful and ridiculous money making sequels to films like Cinderella, to rip of kid’s parents who would be forced to buy into them (often at shockingly high prices) when their little kid saw it advertised and thought it would be just as good as the original when in reality it had low production values and a schlock plot.

It’s a vile little trick.

So it continues. The 80’s shall be revisited once again (or with this and The Lost Boys, are we venturing closely to the 90’s now?)…

A third movie in the Bill & Ted franchise is in the works and it will be a Lost Boys esque straight to DVD affair. The movie is being prepped quickly and casting could well have been completed already, according to this industry website.

The original movie Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure was a surprise $40 million hit in 1988, featuring two “cool” teenagers who travel through time to obtain a number of historical figures for their high school history presentation. Talk about going straight to the primary source!

It’s a slacker look at the teenage youth of the late 1980’s along with a real chemistry of friendship between the two leads which made a sequel inevitable and only a few years later Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey was released where our leads were sent to hell (with the character of Death from The Seventh Seal featured prominently) and I actually enjoy it somewhat more than the original. It’s a little more smarter and inventive as a film.

That also made around the same number at the box office (though on a bigger budget) which was then followed by an animated series (characters voiced by Reeves & Winter).

The franchise was declared dead when Keanu became a real movie star in the massively popular Point Break and his good looks and smart career choices would make him one of the biggest stars of the 90’s, whilst Winter would rarely act again, choosing a career as a director which never really took off.

No need to ask what you think about a third Bill & Ted movie. Leave well alone. Yeah it’s not Indiana Jones or Ghost Busters but does anyone wanna see a third movie with no effort that goes straight to DVD and of course it’s a worrying trend for what sequels might be on the horizon if it makes money.

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