“We’ve been working on it for the past couple of years, honing that idea and getting it into shape,” he continued. “[Screenwriters Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon] are working on it now. The bottom line is that we still all feel like we need to sit down and look at a script and see if it’s everything that it can be before we set about doing anything with it.”

Winter wasn’t able to divulge much about what “Bill & Ted 3” will focus on, though he emphasized that the movie won’t be “cynical.”

“The essence of what we’ve always wanted to do is to make a ‘Bill & Ted’ movie,” he said. “We don’t want to make a cynical ‘here’s Bill and Ted — you guys are our kids, now YOU guys go be Bill and Ted and the franchise can live for another 25 years!’ It’s not that. It’s a straight up, what’s the funniest and most surprising take on where Bill and Ted would be right now if we stopped back in on them? That’s what we’re doing.”

– Josh Wigler, MTV Movies Blog.

The “Winter” being quoted here — just to clarify — is not Edgar, but Alex Winter, as in Bill S. Preston, Esq., he of Wyld Stallyns fame.

Winter, who is apparently a director now and not just still acting under the pseudonym “Barry Pepper,” confirmed that a third Bill and Ted movie is in the works, which is obviously awesome news.

The only complaint I have about the originals is that now every single time I show up anywhere with someone named Bill — and there are a lot of people named Bill, so it happens a lot — people are all like, “oh hey, Bill and Ted! You guys coming from an excellent adventure or a bogus journey? Get it? Bill and Ted!”

Wait, did I say complaint? I actually don’t really mind that at all. I think it’s pretty awesome because it reminds me of those movies and how great they were.

Anyway what concerns me about Winter’s quote above is the part about the “most surprising take on where Bill and Ted would be right now if we stopped back in on them.”

Ahh… hello, Alex Winter? I was under the impression that Bill and Ted would be united the world with their bodacious music by now. That’s why they need Eddie Van Halen, and that’s why they need a triumphant video, etc. Remember?

I guess Rufus came back from the distant future, so perhaps the full impact of Wyld Stallyns’ awesomeness was posthumous, but the end of Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey sure made it seem like they were on their way to creating a utopian future through rock.

So I guess I’m interested in seeing what the hell Alex Winter’s talking about. Also: STAY-SHUN!