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** The film was originally called ''Bill and Ted's Time Van'', and ideas for time periods covered included everything from ancient Egypt to the Presidency of Richard Nixon. The idea seemingly involved more characters than just Bill and Ted going back in time, since in [[http://ew.com/movies/2018/03/30/bill-and-ted-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-alternate-endings/amp/ an Entertainment Weekly enterview]], Solomon said that at one point in the script one of the popular kids would have befriended Hitler (which Matheson says is more reflective of their attitude towards "the popular kids" than anything else).
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** The film was originally called ''Bill and Ted's Time Van'', and ideas for time periods covered included everything from ancient Egypt to the Presidency of Richard Nixon. The idea seemingly involved more characters than just Bill and Ted going back in time, since in [[http://ew.com/movies/2018/03/30/bill-and-ted-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-alternate-endings/amp/ an Entertainment Weekly enterview]], interview]], Solomon said that at one point in the script one of the popular kids would have befriended Hitler (which Matheson says is more reflective of their attitude towards "the popular kids" than anything else).
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** Creator/BrendanFraser, Creator/RiverPhoenix, and Creator/SeanPenn auditioned for the role of Bill before Creator/AlexWinter was cast.
** Creator/PaulyShore screen-tested for the part of Ted before the casting of Creator/KeanuReeves.
** Music/RingoStarr, Creator/SeanConnery, [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]], and Creator/CharlieSheen were considered for the role of Rufus before Creator/GeorgeCarlin was cast.
** Creator/PaulyShore screen-tested for the part of Ted before the casting of Creator/KeanuReeves.
** Music/RingoStarr, Creator/SeanConnery, [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]], and Creator/CharlieSheen were considered for the role of Rufus before Creator/GeorgeCarlin was cast.
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** Creator/BrendanFraser, Creator/RiverPhoenix, and Creator/SeanPenn auditioned for the role of Bill before Creator/AlexWinter was cast.
** Creator/PaulyShore screen-tested for thepart role of Ted before the casting of Creator/KeanuReeves.
** Music/RingoStarr, Creator/SeanConnery, [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]], and Creator/CharlieSheen were considered for therole part of Rufus before Creator/GeorgeCarlin was cast.
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** Music/RingoStarr, Creator/SeanConnery, [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]], and Creator/CharlieSheen were considered for the role of Rufus before the casting of Creator/GeorgeCarlin.
** Creator/PaulyShore screen-tested for the part of Ted "Theodore" Logan before Creator/KeanuReeves was cast.
** Music/RingoStarr, Creator/SeanConnery, [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]], and Creator/CharlieSheen were considered for the role of Rufus before the casting of Creator/GeorgeCarlin.
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** Music/RingoStarr, Creator/SeanConnery, [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]], and Creator/CharlieSheen were considered for Rufus before the casting of Creator/GeorgeCarlin.
** Creator/PaulyShore screen-tested for the part of Ted before Creator/KeanuReeves was cast.
** Music/RingoStarr, Creator/SeanConnery, [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]], and Creator/CharlieSheen were considered for Rufus before the casting of Creator/GeorgeCarlin.
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** Creator/BrendanFraser, Creator/RiverPhoenix, and Creator/SeanPenn auditioned for the role of of Bill S. Preston, Esq. before the casting of Creator/AlexWinter.
** Creator/PaulyShore screen-tested for the part of Ted "Theodore" Logan before Creator/KeanuReeves was cast.
** Music/RingoStarr, Creator/SeanConnery, [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]], and Creator/CharlieSheen were considered for the role of Rufus before the casting of Creator/GeorgeCarlin.
** Creator/PaulyShore screen-tested for the part of Ted "Theodore" Logan before Creator/KeanuReeves was cast.
** Music/RingoStarr, Creator/SeanConnery, [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]], and Creator/CharlieSheen were considered for the role of Rufus before the casting of Creator/GeorgeCarlin.
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** Creator/BrendanFraser, Creator/RiverPhoenix, and Creator/SeanPenn auditioned for the role of Bill before the casting of Creator/AlexWinter.
** Creator/PaulyShore screen-tested for the part of Ted before Creator/KeanuReeves was cast.
** Music/RingoStarr, Creator/SeanConnery, [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]], and Creator/CharlieSheen were considered for Rufus before the casting of Creator/GeorgeCarlin.
** [[Music/VanHalen Eddie Van Halen]] said that he would have been glad to appear in the movie, but nobody asked him.
** The Three Most Important People in the utopian society were envisioned to be portrayed by Music/ZZTop. However, Solomon had connections to the E Street Band, The Tubes and The Motels, and were able to get Clarence Clemons, Fee Waybill, and Martha Davis, respectively, for the Most Important People.
** Creator/PaulyShore screen-tested for the part of Ted before Creator/KeanuReeves was cast.
** Music/RingoStarr, Creator/SeanConnery, [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]], and Creator/CharlieSheen were considered for Rufus before the casting of Creator/GeorgeCarlin.
** [[Music/VanHalen Eddie Van Halen]] said that he would have been glad to appear in the movie, but nobody asked him.
** The Three Most Important People in the utopian society were envisioned to be portrayed by Music/ZZTop. However, Solomon had connections to the E Street Band, The Tubes and The Motels, and were able to get Clarence Clemons, Fee Waybill, and Martha Davis, respectively, for the Most Important People.
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** [[Music/VanHalen Eddie Van Halen]] said that he would have been glad to appear in the movie, but nobody asked him.
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** They had a hard time casting Rufus; in fact they didn't cast Creator/GeorgeCarlin until well after filming began. Because of the recent success of ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' and its youth-centric plot, [[ExecutiveMeddling the studio wanted to cast Rufus as a young person.]] Producer Scott Kroopf screened a lot of candidates, and once went to a basketball game with Creator/CharlieSheen, who told him that he needed an older guy for the part. Carlin was finally cast because he was a big enough name to wave at the studio. Prior to Carlin, Creator/SeanConnery, [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]], Creator/CharlieSheen and Music/RingoStarr were considered.
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* DawsonCasting: Playing seniors in high school, Creator/AlexWinter was 22, and Creator/KeanuReeves was 21.
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** During filming, Dan Shor was 31, and Jane Wiedlin was 29. In real life, UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid was killed at 21, and UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc was executed at 19.
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* DawsonCasting: Playing seniors in high school, Alex Winter was 22, and Creator/KeanuReeves was 21.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: In a 1991 interview, Ed Solomon said that Bill and Ted were originally envisaged as "fourteen-year-old skinny guys, with low-rider bell-bottoms, and heavy metal t-shirts" who were despised by the popular kids at school. Casting Creator/KeanuReeves and Alex Winter changed the filmmakers' images of the characters because "once you cast Alex and Keanu, who look like pretty cool guys, that was hard to believe."
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* DeletedRoll: An early script had a random medieval guy tag along with all the historical characters. The end credits still mention James Bowbitch as "John The Serf".
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* PlayingAgainstType: Profane, animated and misanthropic comedian Creator/GeorgeCarlin as the calm, peaceful Rufus.
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** Creator/PaulyShore auditioned for Ted.
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** The time machine was originally a pick up truck, then a van. It was changed into a phone booth because it might have made the movie too close to a ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' ripoff. Now it's just unintentionally close to the TARDIS in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
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** The time machine was originally a pick up truck, then a van. It was changed into a phone booth because it might have made the movie too close to a ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' ripoff. Now it's just unintentionally close to the TARDIS in ''Series/DoctorWho''.[[note]]At the time, the series had a cult following in the United States and wouldn't become mainstream there until TheNewTens.[[/note]]
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://billandted.wikia.com/wiki/Bill_%26_Ted%27s_Most_Triumphant_Wiki Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Wiki]].
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** The film was originally called ''Bill and Ted's Time Van'', and ideas for time periods covered included everything from ancient Egypt to the Presidency of Richard Nixon.
*** The idea seemingly involved more characters than just Bill and Ted going back in time, since in [[http://ew.com/movies/2018/03/30/bill-and-ted-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-alternate-endings/amp/ an Entertainment Weekly enterview]], Solomon said that at one point in the script one of the popular kids would have befriended Hitler (which Matheson says is more reflective of their attitude towards "the popular kids" than anything else).
*** The idea seemingly involved more characters than just Bill and Ted going back in time, since in [[http://ew.com/movies/2018/03/30/bill-and-ted-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-alternate-endings/amp/ an Entertainment Weekly enterview]], Solomon said that at one point in the script one of the popular kids would have befriended Hitler (which Matheson says is more reflective of their attitude towards "the popular kids" than anything else).
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** The film was originally called ''Bill and Ted's Time Van'', and ideas for time periods covered included everything from ancient Egypt to the Presidency of Richard Nixon.
***Nixon. The idea seemingly involved more characters than just Bill and Ted going back in time, since in [[http://ew.com/movies/2018/03/30/bill-and-ted-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-alternate-endings/amp/ an Entertainment Weekly enterview]], Solomon said that at one point in the script one of the popular kids would have befriended Hitler (which Matheson says is more reflective of their attitude towards "the popular kids" than anything else).
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** Originally the plot was to have them visit, and therefore accidentally ''cause'', all of history's greatest tragedies (the sinking of the Titanic, the crash of the Hindenburg, the Black Plague...).
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** The presentation at the end of the movie would have just involved the historical figures lecturing the history class while Bill and Ted watched, then they went to their prom and the movie ended. Alex Winter remarked that even while filming this ending, they were underwhelmed by it, so the whole thing was rewritten into the auditorium spectacle seen in the final film.
*** The idea seemingly involved more characters than just Bill and Ted going back in time, since in [[http://ew.com/movies/2018/03/30/bill-and-ted-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-alternate-endings/amp/ an Entertainment Weekly enterview]], Solomon said that at one point in the script one of the popular kids would have befriended Hitler (which Matheson says is more reflective of their attitude towards "the popular kids" than anything else).
** The presentation at the end of the movie would have just involved the historical figures lecturing the history class while Bill and Ted watched, then they went to their prom and the movie ended. Alex Winter remarked that even while filming this ending, they were underwhelmed by it, so the whole thing was rewritten into the auditorium spectacle seen in the final film.
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* DawsonCasting: Playing seniors in high school, Alex Winter was 24, and Keanu Reeves was 25 in the first film.
* DevelopmentHell: The film took two years to get a release. It was filmed throughout Spring 1987 for De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, but then the company went bankrupt, and the film would be shelved until a year later when Nelson Entertainment and Orion Pictures picked it up. They also had to re-dub everything that was originally scripted as "1987" as "1988".
* DevelopmentHell: The film took two years to get a release. It was filmed throughout Spring 1987 for De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, but then the company went bankrupt, and the film would be shelved until a year later when Nelson Entertainment and Orion Pictures picked it up. They also had to re-dub everything that was originally scripted as "1987" as "1988".
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* DawsonCasting: Playing seniors in high school, Alex Winter was 24, 22, and Keanu Reeves Creator/KeanuReeves was 25 in the first film.
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*DevelopmentHell: DeletedScene: Detailed [[http://www.billandted.org/movieseaomitted.htm here]].
* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: The film took two years to get a release. It was filmed throughout Spring 1987 for De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, but then the company went bankrupt, and the film would be shelved until a year later when Nelson Entertainment and Orion Pictures picked it up. They also had to re-dub everything that was originally scripted as "1987" as "1988".
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* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: The film took two years to get a release. It was filmed throughout Spring 1987 for De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, but then the company went bankrupt, and the film would be shelved until a year later when Nelson Entertainment and Orion Pictures picked it up. They also had to re-dub everything that was originally scripted as "1987" as "1988".
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** Eddie Van Halen said that he would have been glad to appear in the movie, but nobody asked him.
** The original concept for the film was following Bill and Ted through an unrelated series of sketches, with the time travel story just one of several skits. Writer Chris Matheson's father, Richard Matheson (author of ''Literature/IAmLegend''), wisely suggested that the film focus entirely on the time travel idea.
** They had a hard time casting Rufus; in fact they didn't cast Carlin until well after filming began. Because of the recent success of Film/BackToTheFuture and its youth-centric plot, [[ExecutiveMeddling the studio wanted to cast Rufus as a young person.]] Producer Scott Kroopf screened a lot of candidates, and once went to a basketball game with Creator/CharlieSheen, who told him that he needed an older guy for the part. Carlin was finally cast because he was a big enough name to wave at the studio.
** Eddie Van Halen said that he would have been glad to appear in the movie, but nobody asked him.
** The original concept for the film was following Bill and Ted through an unrelated series of sketches, with the time travel story just one of several skits. Writer Chris Matheson's father, Richard Matheson (author of ''Literature/IAmLegend''), wisely suggested that the film focus entirely on the time travel idea.
** They had a hard time casting Rufus; in fact they didn't cast Carlin until well after filming began. Because of the recent success of Film/BackToTheFuture and its youth-centric plot, [[ExecutiveMeddling the studio wanted to cast Rufus as a young person.]] Producer Scott Kroopf screened a lot of candidates, and once went to a basketball game with Creator/CharlieSheen, who told him that he needed an older guy for the part. Carlin was finally cast because he was a big enough name to wave at the studio.
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** The time machine was originally a pick up truck, then a van. It was changed into a phone booth because it might have made the movie too close to a ''Film/{{Back to the Future}}'' ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' ripoff. Now it's just unintentionally close to the TARDIS in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
** [[Music/VanHalen Eddie VanHalen Halen]] said that he would have been glad to appear in the movie, but nobody asked him.
** The original concept for the film was following Bill and Ted through an unrelated series of sketches, with the time travel story just one of several skits. Writer Chris Matheson's father,Richard Matheson Creator/RichardMatheson (author of ''Literature/IAmLegend''), wisely suggested that the film focus entirely on the time travel idea.
** In the original outline for the movie, Rufus was a 28-year-old high school sophomore who befriended Bill and Ted. There was also a character named John the Serf, whom Bill and Ted picked up in medieval England.
** They had a hard time castingRufus; Rufus (Creator/SeanConnery was an option); in fact they didn't cast Carlin Creator/GeorgeCarlin until well after filming began. Because of the recent success of Film/BackToTheFuture ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' and its youth-centric plot, [[ExecutiveMeddling the studio wanted to cast Rufus as a young person.]] Producer Scott Kroopf screened a lot of candidates, and once went to a basketball game with Creator/CharlieSheen, who told him that he needed an older guy for the part. Carlin was finally cast because he was a big enough name to wave at the studio.
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** The original concept for the film was following Bill and Ted through an unrelated series of sketches, with the time travel story just one of several skits. Writer Chris Matheson's father,
** In the original outline for the movie, Rufus was a 28-year-old high school sophomore who befriended Bill and Ted. There was also a character named John the Serf, whom Bill and Ted picked up in medieval England.
** They had a hard time casting
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Along with a lot of the more obvious stuff, the film would've been really short if Google was around in the 80s.
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** Bill and Ted's brand of hair metal that would supposedly save future civilization went out of style only a few years after the film was released.
** Along with a lot of the more obvious stuff, the film would've been really short if Google was around in the
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Originally the plot was to have them visit, and therefore accidentally ''cause'', all of history's greatest tragedies (the sinking of the Titanic, the crash of the Hindenburg, the Black Plague...).
** The time machine was originally a pick up truck, then a van. It was changed into a phone booth because it might have made the movie too close to a ''Film/{{Back to the Future}}'' ripoff. Now it's just unintentionally close to the TARDIS in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
** Eddie Van Halen said that he would have been glad to appear in the movie, but nobody asked him.
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** Originally the plot was to have them visit, and therefore accidentally ''cause'', all of history's greatest tragedies (the sinking of the Titanic, the crash of the Hindenburg, the Black Plague...).
** The time machine was originally a pick up truck, then a van. It was changed into a phone booth because it might have made the movie too close to a ''Film/{{Back to the Future}}'' ripoff. Now it's just unintentionally close to the TARDIS in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
** Eddie Van Halen said that he would have been glad to appear in the movie, but nobody asked him.
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