Most excellent! 'Bill & Ted Face The Music' drops first trailer

Dudes, the wait is over. Bill & Ted Face The Music' has dropped its most excellent trailer.

The time-traveling best friends – portrayed by Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter – reunite in the third instalment of the franchise, set 29 years after Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.

The film, from Orion Pictures, also plans to keep its August 21 release date, despite the coronavirus pandemic's toll on exhibition.

Cinemas in some states have been granted permission to reopen, but very few have been able to successfully set up business again.

Keanu Reeves (left) and Alex Winter reprise their roles as the now middle-aged best friends.

In the new trailer for Bill & Ted Face The Music, Reeves and Winter reprise their roles as the now middle-aged best friends. When a visitor from the future warns the duo that only their song can save all of humanity, Bill and Ted must travel to the future to retrieve the song – from themselves.

Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, new historical figures and various music legends. Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) serves as director, while Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, screenwriters from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey, wrote the script.

A third Bill & Ted film had been in the works since 2010 and was officially greenlit in 2018.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, the first instalment in the sci-fi comedy franchise, became a box office hit when it debuted in 1989.

Due to its commercial success, a sequel, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, arrived in 1991. Both films became cult classics. - Reuters