Thursday, March 18, 2010

My Plot Out Line for a Bill and Ted 3

Didn't get a chance to post last night! Was a big day at work, followed by celebrating St. Patty's day, and falling pretty soundly asleep.

Here is my take on how to do a Bill and Ted 3:

Early on the film would explain that Rufus has gone back to his own time and will not return, so that the events of history can unfold as they should from there forward.

Wyld Stallions music has become the basis of all international peace talks, with a message of being awesome to one another as the main focus. Over the years this has also become the standard in private business and government policies.

The greatest intellectual and artistic minds of the day are headed off to a Colony on Mars where their knowledge is going to be collected and beamed out into the universe, for the benefit of any extraterrestrial life forms that may be out there. (Note- In the world of Bill and Ted the notion of cooperation through mutual respect and awesomeness has lead to great break troughs in science. Thus allowing for Martian Colonization.). The event will be capped off by a Wyld Stallions concert. Wyld Stallions would consist of Bill and Ted as the front men, The Reaper on Bass, the Jr Bill and Ted having taken Over for their mothers, on piano and key board. This will be the young duo’s first show since they have taken on those rolls. The princesses, now high powered political types, remain on Earth.

The relationship between Bill and Ted and their sons has become strained. The Juniors feel that they missed out a lot growing up because their parents were always busy with the band, trying to save the world. They also don’t know how to tell their dads that they want to start their own band in order to break out of the shadows of their fathers.

Unknown to the intrepid earthlings, they are under the eye of an power hungry alien Over Lord, hell bent on making Earth the next planet he takes Over, and making sure that he kills off Wyld Stallions, seeing them as the only conceivable threat to its own power.

The aliens attack the Colony and imprison the intellectuals and artists just before the broadcast of the concert, destroying the communications equipment that would allow for the broadcast. Upon discovering that Wyld Stallions has a new line up they become enraged. With the princesses unaccounted for the Over Lord has much to fear, knowing that he must take out the band’s full original line up to truly be secure in his victory.

A group of alien resistance fighters from many different species are able to break into the Colony under the noses of the Over Lord’s troops. They save Bill and Ted, the Juniors and a colonist that is previously established as the love interest for one of the Juniors. The Reaper is unfortunately left behind with the imprisoned Colonists, as security around him is far too high for the resistance fighters to penetrate. He is Death after all…

Once they have escaped to the safety of the resistance fighters’ ship it is revealed that the resistance against the Over Lord began when their people were visited by a bearded man in a telephone booth who gave them a copy of a Wyld Stallions CD. The music inspired them to fight for their freedom and bring about peace, and this is why the Over Lord fears Wyld Stallions so much. That is also why he stopped the concert, fearing that the music will inspire the rest of his enslaved people to over throw him.

The escapees and the resistance fighters split into two teams: one to stay behind and save the Reaper, the intellectuals and the colonists, as well as fix the broadcast equipment so they can put on the concert; the other to stow away on the Over Lord ship headed to Earth in search of the princesses so they can stop it before it reaches them.

One team will have Bill and his son; the other will have Ted and his son. This will give the fathers a chance to get to know their sons a little better, and come to realize that they have felt like their lives have always taken a back seat to the band.

The film will climax with the Over Lord being defeated in battle by the Reaper. The broadcast equipment is restored and the concert goes on as planed. With a message of peace and awesomeness being beamed throughout the universe, and the knowledge that the Over Lord has been over thrown, it inspires all of the enslaved alien races and their masters to reach an understanding, effectively ending tyranny across the galaxy.

Bill and Ted, now having gotten to know their sons better decided to kick them out of Wyld Stallions, and tell them to start their own band.

3 comments:

  1. I'd watch it! I'm especially intrigued to see how someone can capture and contain The Reaper.

    The only thing I'd suggest is that you have a point where Bill Sr. and Ted Jr. (and Ted Sr. and Bill Jr.) have to team up, because I think there's a lot of potential for both comedy and drama there. Also, it seems like a bit of a sausage-fest (though I guess 1 and 2 were as well.) But I guess you could always make the resistance leader a lady (hey, it worked for Star Wars!)

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  2. No plotline following the princesses? Do they just chill out waiting to be saved? I echo the sausagefest comment above- except I would like to point out that making one semi-main character (John's resistance leader idea) a lady does not actually make it better. It's a start but it's not enough. The Bechdel Rule, guys. Learn it. Love it.

    Other than that, I like it!

    PS: this is the Bechdel Rule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bechdel_Test#The_Bechdel_test

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  3. It is not that the princesses wouldn't be doing anything, it just isn't part of the main plot, which is what I was flushing out.

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