The original ending of Bill and Ted Face the Music was altered, revealed by Ed Solomon because it was extremely sad. Bill and Ted Face the Music is the 3rd movie in the Bill & Ted film series. It was recently released in August.
The movie stars Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves as Bill and Ted respectively. It focuses on Bill and Ted on another adventure, with two rockers jumping through time to try saving the world.
Although the trilogy’s 2nd installment appeared nearly three decades prior, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey was released in 1991. It got positive reviews from critics and fans.
Collider had interviewed the writer of Bill & Ted Face the Music, Ed Solomon. He highlighted the fact that the original ending of Bill and Ted Face the Music was changed. He said the ending was different and calm at the last moment.
Solomon asserts that the first plan of the ending was written in 2010, actually sloped upon the premise of Bill and Ted’s failure. This is what he said about the original ending of Bill and Ted Face the Music.
This is what Solomon said For Original Ending Of Bill and Ted Face The Music
“The first draft that we wrote in 2010, the ending of the movie was really small. We had a scene at the beginning where 20 years ago they had put $100,000 down to rent the Rose Bowl for their triumphant 20th Reunion Tour, and when we meet them in the movie when it opens they have sold literally zero tickets. We had a scene where they went to negotiate with the guy to try and get their money back and the guy was like, ‘No, you’re stuck’. The whole movie was moving towards this ending, and the guys were thinking.”
“‘Well obviously it must be at the Rose Bowl. Obviously, we’re gonna fill the Rose Bowl with this triumphant song, we just don’t know how.’ And the whole movie happens like it happens [in Face the Music], they go into the future, their lives get worse and worse, and they arrive at the Rose Bowl and it’s empty. There are no instruments there. It didn’t happen. They failed. And they go home and they sit down in their living room, and you’re like one minute from the end of the movie.”
“And they realize they failed, they feel like they failed, and when they hear music coming from the other room and they walk in and they look and see their kids and they realize it was never them, and the movie’s over.”
Solomon went on to explain this original ending of Bill and Ted Face the Music wasn’t extremely well-received by cast members; when Reeves and Winter heard of what would happen, Solomon recollects that they both said it was “sort of a bummer.” It’s inclined that such a response, coupled with the desire to make the original ending of Bill and Ted Face the Music “bigger and better” than those of the earlier two films, led to the extra upbeat ending that made the cut.
However, the original ending of Bill and Ted Face the Music might have other effects but this version is really a more pertinent tribute to bid farewell to characters that the audience has quite literally grown up with.
The Bill & Ted series is known for its sharp wit and lighthearted spirit, and a bummer climaxing would have been out of place with the original ending of Bill and Ted Face the Music.
