Galaxy Quest director Dean Parsiot signs on to new Bill and Ted movie

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Galaxy Quest director Dean Parsiot signs on to new Bill and Ted movie

Actor Alex Winters has been excited about a new Bill and Ted movie for a while now, but other than that, there hasn’t been any new news about the film. That is until this weekend, when Galaxy Quest director Dean Parsiot signed on. So… this is really happening? RADICAL!

Original Bill & Ted creators Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson have also attached Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) to direct their script. Unlike so many recent studio remakes, which have simply recycled old material for a new generation, Solomon and Matheson took the unusual step of writing their third Bill & Ted script on spec in an attempt to ensure a take that would address where Mssrs. Ted Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esq. are in their lives today as opposed to being a reboot or remake. Insiders tell Vulture the hope is to make a mid-priced studio comedy like Hot Tub Time-Machine.

Where the third film might land is still not clear: MGM Pictures still owns the rights to Bill & Ted, but we hear that this new package is currently being shopped to other studios to co-finance it. (This, of course, is a tactic the recently back-from-the-dead MGM is also currently employing on Valley Girl, another planned eighties remake. Best known for having a very young Nicolas Cage tell us to “fuck off, ‘fershure, like, totally!” that project was recently set up at Paramount Pictures.)

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