William Sadler has starred in The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, but his most memorable role has to be that of Death in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.
Now, the 69-year-old is back for the third installment of the franchise, and we’re happy to say, he still looks like Death.
One of the writers of Bill & Ted Face The Music has shared a picture of Sadler taking a break on set, and it is truly excellent.
Ed Solomon tweeted two pictures – one from 1991’s Bogus Journey which saw Sadler in full costume and make-up playing Twister, and one from Bill & Ted 3, which saw him in his very eerie prosthetics and make-up, grabbing some warm creole potatoes from catering.
Solomon wrote: ‘@Wm_Sadler behind the scenes in Bogus Journey.. and last month behind the lunch table in Face The Music’, before telling a follower he was ‘tremendous’ in the new film.
After another fan replied: ‘It’s gonna be an all timer man’, Solomon wrote: ‘Oh man I hope you guys are right.’
We think it will be totally bodacious.
Alongside Sadler, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are returning to play Theodore ‘Ted’ Logan and William ‘Bill’ S Preston, Esq in the eagerly anticipated comedy, 30 years after their first outing in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
In the 1989 comedy, the friends travelled through time via a phone booth to gather historical figures for a class project they’d been slacking off on to play in their band, Wild Stallyns, and brought back icons like Sigmund Freud, Abraham Lincoln and Joan of Arc.
This time, however, Bill and Ted are family men and need to go back in time for a very different reason. Speaking about the script last year on The Graham Norton Show, Keanu said: ‘Basically, they’re supposed to write a song to save the world and they haven’t done that.
‘The pressure of having to save the world, their marriages are falling apart, their kids are kind of mad at them, and then someone comes from the future and tells them if they don’t write the song it’s not just the world, it’s the universe. So they have to save the universe because time is breaking apart.’
Kid Cudi has joined the cast in an undisclosed role, with Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Jillian Bell, Holland Taylor and Kristen Schaal also in the cast.
The roles of Princess Elizabeth and Princess Joanna, previously played by Annette ZAzcuy and Sarah Trigger, have been recast with Erinn Hayes and Glee’s Jayma Mays.
Bill & Ted Face The Music is set for release on 21 August 2020.
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