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NewsGush: Bill & Ted To Return!

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In these cynical times, it’s easy to pour scorn on the vague rumblings emerging from Hollywood’s rumour mill, as well as stars returning decades later to the roles that made them famous. Let’s face it, Indy didn’t exactly light our fires the fourth time around, and who the hell gives a shit about Wall Street II?

No-one, that’s who.

Of course, there is one property that we’ve been longing to see again, we’ve ruminated on it in the past, we’ve covered the rumours more recently, and given the current propensity for huge hair, bleached jeans and ‘Poison’ tour shirts here in London town, we pretty much encounter it on a daily basis on our way to work.

No, not ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’.

That’s right, we’re talking about the long awaited return of Bill S. Preston Esq. And Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan.

If there’s one thing likely to lift that grim sheen of shattered sequel hopes , it’s a final comeback tour from Wyld Stallyns themselves, and now it looks like it may actually happen.

Speaking to MTV, Alex Winter today confirmed that the bodacious duo are working on a way to return to this time period:

“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. Now the cat’s out of the bag, and the truth is that, yeah, we have finally hit upon an idea that we think is pretty great. We’ve been working on it for the past couple of years, honing that idea and getting it into shape.”

While there’s no set date for a release, this is the most promising franchise news we’ve had in a long time, let’s just hope it isn’t bogus.

Applied Hot Tub Time Travel

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God alone knows what John Cusack is thinking these days, sullying his once minty fresh, high fidelity screen persona with crud like 2010 and America’s Sweethearts. Fortunately it looks like he might be back on the winning horse as he and the three unlikeliest friends ever to grace the screen head back to the 80’s in new comedy Hot Tub Time Machine. Sure it’s stupid, but the decade that gave us the haystack rule of sexuality (the higher the hair, the sexier the woman…) was responsible for some of the gnarliest movie dialogue ever -so make sure you’re prepared with the new Hot Tub time Machine iPhone App!

hot tub time machine iphone app

Combining seemingly senseless words like ‘great white buffalo’ and ‘Twittagra’ will make sure you’re the most annoying person in your office for at least the next fortnight -get over to the Apple store and bag yours now!

Stick To The Script! – Back To The Future

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When Hollywood Gets It Right…

Hollywood studios are renowned for relentless tinkering, middle managers and yes men sticking their oar in and befuddling a perfectly good script with Star Cameos, Product Placement and Giant Mechanical Spiders, usually resulting in a hopeless chud-fest that leaves the cinema crowd vomiting their bile all over the internet. It’s ruined careers – Joel Schumacher take a bow – and in some cases even bought studios to their knees – we’re looking at you Heaven’s Gate.

But just occasionally, it can be a good thing.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be taking you through some truly great movies, and showing you how totally crappy they’d have been if a few faceless suits hadn’t rocked up, treated the writers like shit and the director like a moron, and totally changed everything!

First up, a faultless 80s classic that got out alive: Back To The Future.

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The Time Traveller’s Wife

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Robert Schwentke obviously faced a tough job adapting Niffenegger’s rich, layered novel for the screen, and while it often feels both lacking in depth and overcrowded, Hapless Time-Jumper Henry’s struggle to build a relationship with Clare, remains intact, and it’s here that the film genuinely scores points.

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