Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and its sequel, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, are two of my all time favorite films. I love that the second film didn’t quite echo its predecessor, taking our heroes to both Heaven and Hell.
This past weekend the Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival in Chicago celebrated Bogus Journey‘s 25th anniversary with a special screening, one that brought in director Peter Hewitt for an extremely rare appearance alongside star William Sadler!
The duo embraced one another while explaining that they haven’t talked in years. In fact, Hewitt had revealed that he hasn’t revisit the film in over 20 years.
While the duo reminisced, little memories began to spring out, one of which was nothing short of mind blowing: Hewitt recalled that writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon at one point discussed placing Bill and Ted in a haunted house! The bad news is that Hewitt couldn’t remember any of the details…nor could Solomon (we reached out and he unfortunately had nothing to add).
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No matter, it’s sort of fun to think about just how far they could have went with Bill and Ted in a haunted house, considering the studio, producers and financiers allowed the filmmakers to send them to Hell.
Check out our exclusive Facebook Live chat with Hewitt and Sadler!
As an added bonus, here’s a fun quote from Sadler, who played Death in Bogus Journey: “I’ve played a lot of villains. As Death, I got to kill everyone who ever died.”
If you could title Bill and Ted’s haunted house movie, what would you call it? And, just thinking about it, how “Scooby-Doo” would it have been?!
