Earlier this week it was Keanu Reeves spilling the beans, and now Alex Winter has weighed in on the possibility of a Bill and Ted Part 3.

Speaking to MTV as a follow-up to their original news-breaking story, Winter (aka Bill S Preston to Keanu’s Ted “Theodore” Logan) confirmed that “the cat’s out of the bag, and the truth is that, yeah, we [Reeves, Winter, and writes Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon] have finally hit upon an idea that we think is pretty great. We don’t want to make a cynical ‘Here’s Bill and Ted — you guys are our kids, now YOU guys go be Bill and Ted and the franchise can live for another 25 years!’ It’s not that. It’s a straight up, what’s the funniest and most surprising take on where Bill and Ted would be right now if we stopped back in on them? That’s what we’re doing.”

Everyone involved is still keeping quiet about what the idea actually is, but what seems important to all the key players is to be in-keeping with the tone of the originals, and not fall pray to any bogus audience-nudging, aren’t-we-ironic shenanigans.

“We’ve been working on it for the past couple of years,” says Winter. “The bottom line is that we still all feel like we need to sit down and look at a script and see if it’s everything that it can be before we set about doing anything with it. We kicked around the idea over the years and had always thought if we could make something that was as kind of genuine in spirit as the originals and without falling prey to kind of retro cynicism or something that was unnecessary, it would be worth doing.”

There are no plans to re-cast the late George Carlin’s role as guru Rufus. “That would be horrible,” Winter says. “We’ve been delicate about moving around him.”

And when, should it all come to pass, might we see this most bodacious of prospects realised? “We would love to not be doing this when we’re 60, I’ll leave it at that,” Winter chuckles. Excellent!