History Trivia / BillAndTedFaceTheMusic

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bill and Ted were suppose to travel back to the night they met Rufus for advice. A CGI recreation of Carlin as Rufus was planed, however it proved too time consuming and costly, so it was scrapped and instead a hologram of Rufus near the beginning was used instead.

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Related to the above, in the film, while they don't say it outright. It's fairly obvious Rufus has passed on given the sad looks between Bill, Ted and Kelly when first discussing him and Bill and Ted's reaction to his hologram when going to meet the Great Leader. The character is also spoken about in past-tense as well.
* DawsonCasting: Inverted, with a soupcon of ''Underage Casting''. The princesses who were in the first film, 16-ish year old virgins were played by 25 year olds Kimberly Labelle and Diane Franklin, then in the sequels as college-age by 22-year-old Sarah Trigger and Annette Azcuy. Here, in their late forties, they are 41-year-old Jayma Mays and 44-year-old Erinn Hayes. A slight case of playingGertrude as while Hayes as the mother of Brigette Lundy Paine just about tracks, Mays is only 12 years older than her on-screen daughter Samara Weaving.

* TheOtherDarrin: Jayma Mays and Erinn Hayes take over the roles of Princesses Joanna and Elizabeth.

* SequelGap: There is a 29-year gap between this film and ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney''.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/GeorgeCarlin, who played Rufus, passed away in 2008. WordOfGod is that Rufus will appear through unused footage from the previous films when the Bill & Ted of this film go back in time to see their past selves, and their new liaison from the future, Kelly, is named after Carlin's real life daughter in tribute to him.

* SequelGap: There is a 29-year gap between this film and ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney''.

* PlayingWithCharacterType: Anthony Carrigan's character is introduced as a coldly efficient murder bot, but he turns out to be a socially awkward dork named Dennis Caleb [=McCoy=] who annoys everyone with his existential crisis.

* ReleaseDateChange: Was originally intended to release on August 21st, 2020, but then a bunch of other films changed their release dates due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. The film was rescheduled first to August 14th, and then to August 28th to avoid conflicting with the rescheduled release of ''Film/{{TENET}}''. As August approached, surges in the pandemic across the United States led to many films being pulled from the schedule; it was ultimately decided that ''Bill & Ted'' would be rescheduled one more time for a limited theatrical release (mostly drive-ins) and a simultaneous debut on digital platforms on September 1st. '''[[UpToEleven And then]]''' it moved back to August 28th to avoid a head-to-head matchup with ''{{Film/Mulan|2020}}'' after that film announced a September 4th theatrical/digital release.

* ReleaseDateChange: Was originally intended to release on August 21st, 2020, but then a bunch of other films changed their release dates due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. The film was rescheduled first to August 14th, and then to August 28th to avoid conflicting with the rescheduled release of ''Film/{{TENET}}''. As August approached, surges in the pandemic across the United States led to many films being pulled from the schedule; it was ultimately decided that ''Bill & Ted'' would be rescheduled one more time for a limited theatrical release (mostly drive-ins) and a simultaneous debut on digital platforms on September 1st.

* ReleaseDateChange: Was originally intended to release on August 21st, 2020, but then a bunch of other films changed their release dates due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. The film was rescheduled first to August 14th, and then to August 28th to avoid conflicting with the rescheduled release of ''Film/{{TENET}}''. Amazingly, ''Bill and Ted Face the Music'' hasn't decided to give up on its theatrical release yet.
* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter spent years saying that they were eager and willing to make a third film. A screenplay was completed and went through several rounds of rewrites, and there was a production company willing to front at least part of the budget. Unfortunately, none of these were with the company that owns the actual rights to the franchise (that being Creator/{{MGM}}, who had acquired both Creator/OrionPictures and the library of producer Nelson Entertainment) and everything kept hitting a roadblock over who pays for what and gets how much of the resulting pie. Fortunately, it was announced on May 8, 2018 that [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/cannes-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-reteaming-bill-ted-3-1107419 the third film is now in production for real]], although a release date wasn't announced at the time. [[https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/03/bill-ted-3-release-date/ On March 20, 2019]], the day that production had begun, Reeves and Winter announced that film is scheduled to arrive in theaters on August 28, 2020.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/GeorgeCarlin, who played Rufus, passed away in 2008. So far, there's no word how the movie would address this.

* ReleaseDateChange: Was originally intended to release on August 21st, 2020, but then a bunch of other films changed their release dates due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. The film was rescheduled first to August 14th, and then to August 21st to avoid conflicting with the rescheduled release of ''Film/{{TENET}}''. Amazingly, ''Bill and Ted Face the Music'' hasn't decided to give up on its theatrical release yet.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter spent years saying that they were eager and willing to make a third film. A screenplay was completed and went through several rounds of rewrites, and there was a production company willing to front at least part of the budget. Unfortunately, none of these were with the company that owns the actual rights to the franchise and everything kept hitting a roadblock over who pays for what and gets how much of the resulting pie. Fortunately, it was announced on May 8, 2018 that [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/cannes-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-reteaming-bill-ted-3-1107419 the third film is now in production for real]], although a release date wasn't announced at the time. [[https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/03/bill-ted-3-release-date/ On March 20, 2019]], the day that production had begun, Reeves and Winter announced that film is scheduled to arrive in theaters on August 28, 2020.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter spent years saying that they were eager and willing to make a third film. A screenplay was completed and went through several rounds of rewrites, and there was a production company willing to front at least part of the budget. Unfortunately, none of these were with the company that owns the actual rights to the franchise and everything kept hitting a roadblock over who pays for what and gets how much of the resulting pie. Fortunately, it was announced on May 8, 2018 that [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/cannes-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-reteaming-bill-ted-3-1107419 the third film is now in production for real]], although a release date wasn't announced at the time. [[https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/03/bill-ted-3-release-date/ On March 20, 2019]], the day that production had begun, Reeves and Winter announced that film is scheduled to arrive in theaters on August 14, 2020.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter spent years saying that they were eager and willing to make a third film. A screenplay was completed and went through several rounds of rewrites, and there was a production company willing to front at least part of the budget. Unfortunately, none of these were with the company that owns the actual rights to the franchise and everything kept hitting a roadblock over who pays for what and gets how much of the resulting pie. Fortunately, it was announced on May 8, 2018 that [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/cannes-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-reteaming-bill-ted-3-1107419 the third film is now in production for real]], although a release date wasn't announced at the time. [[https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/03/bill-ted-3-release-date/ On March 20, 2019]], the day that production had begun, Reeves and Winter announced that film is scheduled to arrive in theaters on August 21, 2020.

* ActorAllusion: There will be a messenger from the future called Kelly. She's named after the daughter of Creator/GeorgeCarlin who played Rufus in the first two movies.
* OlderThanTheyThink: Bill and Ted going to the future to learn the song they haven't written yet was already attempted in the ''Bill and Ted's Most Triumphant Return'' comic.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Fans were demanding a third ''Bil & Ted'' film and Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter were all for it. Unfortunately, the rights to the franchise were a tangled mess and it took years to sort out who owned what and how much money they'd accept to let the film be made.