The long-awaited Bill & Ted Face the Music hits video-on-demand on Friday, and with it a soundtrack featuring new music by Weezer, Lamb of God, Fidlar and Mastodon, whose “Rufus Lives” premiered Friday. [60] Weezer released a music video for "Beginning of the End" on August 14, 2020. [75] In its second weekend the film made $765,000 from theaters and remained in either first or second place on every VOD platform, including Amazon Prime, Vudu, iTunes, FandangoNow, and Google Play. Bill destroys the USB drive to goad Dennis into killing them so they can rescue their daughters in Hell. [1] With Death as the group's bassist, they only needed a drummer and created the character of the cavewoman Grom for this, played by Patty Anne Miller, a real-life drummer for artists like Beyoncé and CeeLo Green. Billie, Thea, and their band return to the present to meet up with Kelly and a time-displaced Kid Cudi, but Dennis inadvertently kills them and sends them to Hell. [1] Solomon, Matheson, and Parisot ran through some of most influencing musicians and centered on Jimi Hendrix, Louis Armstrong and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, played in the film by Jeremiah Craft, DazMann Still, and Daniel Dorr, respectively. Literally. It is the second film in the Bill & Ted franchise, and a sequel to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989). They are joined by their wives, who realized they are happy with their lives. There’s no hair metal but two of metal’s biggest current bands – Lamb of God and Mastodon – wrote new songs during the pandemic for the soundtrack. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are back for their third adventure in Bill & Ted Face the Music. Listen to Bill & Ted Face the Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Various Artists on Apple Music. The Future Awaits! [59] As Tosin Abasi was also serving as the "air shredder" for Bill & Ted, Leahy brought in his band, Animals as Leaders, to play on the soundtrack version of the world-saving song. [73] That same weekend, it was the top-rented film on FandangoNow, Apple TV, the iTunes Store, and Google Play. Kelly, the daughter of Bill and Ted's deceased time-travelling guide Rufus, arrives to take them to the future. [66] The second trailer was released along the announcement of the planned mixed theatric/video-on-demand release approach, on July 23, 2020. [32][33][34] They emphasized that this was more than just a money grab, but an earnest work. For those unfamiliar, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) follows a pair of air-headed aspiring musicians—Bill S. Preston, Esq. Bill & Ted Face the Music soundtrack from 2020, composed by Various Artists. Vinyl Currently unavailable. In this spirit Mastodon has written a song, named after the late George Carlin's character Rufus, called "Rufus Lives" for the third installment of … [46] A teaser poster was released on February 5, 2020. [35][36], The movie's outlook changed after the release of John Wick in September 2014 which starred Reeves, according to Matheson. [42], Both Winter and Reeves were confirmed to be in the movie once it was greenlit in May 2018. Check out this exclusive song from the soundtrack to the latest Bill & Ted film, composed by the Oscar-nominated Mark Isham. [49], Part of the writing and casting for the film was creating a supergroup of musicians across time for the film's conclusion. The long-awaited Bill & Ted Face the Music hits video-on-demand on Friday, and with it a soundtrack featuring new music by Weezer, Lamb of God, Fidlar and Mastodon, whose “Rufus Lives” premiered Friday.. Bill S. Preston, Esq. [69] As further complications from the pandemic continued to threaten movie theater openings, United Artists Releasing announced in late July that they would release Face the Music in a combined theatrical and Premium VOD premiere on September 1, 2020. [50], There were no plans to recast the role of Rufus, played by George Carlin who had died in 2008. George Carlin appears posthumously as Rufus through the use of repurposed archival footage from the first film, with Piotr Michael providing the character's voice. [38], Bonita Unified School District in Los Angeles County, California, which serves the cities of San Dimas and La Verne where the real-life San Dimas High School is located, has opened its doors to allow production to use the school on camera, although most of the actual filming in San Dimas for the first film was in a school in Arizona. This backfires as a distraught Dennis turns his weapon on himself, but Bill and Ted throw themselves in the way of the beam. Reeves' career in the prior decade had been lackluster with several flops, but John Wick had renewed his career, and brought newfound attention to any potential projects he was attached to. The four use Rufus' phone booth to create infinite copies of themselves across time and space, handing instruments to everyone who ever lived. This is not, 'Hey let's all cash-in on the Bill & Ted thing for money'—this is the opposite. [8], Bill & Ted Face the Music was originally scheduled to be released on August 21, 2020 by Orion Pictures through United Artists Releasing in the US and by Warner Bros. Pictures in the UK. I think we've finished with the Alex and Keanu Bill & Ted story. [79], Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote: "It zips right along, it makes you smile and chortle, it's a surprisingly sweet-spirited love story... and it's a better tribute to the one-world utopian power of classic rock than Yesterday was. "[81], Shortly before the release of Face the Music, Winter and Reeves discussed the possibility of a fourth Bill & Ted film, the latter telling Rachel Smith of Entertainment Tonight that it would be "up to the fans. Dennis appears and, upon learning Bill and Ted have the song, informs them of his blunder.