Moviefone has posted a list of 25 things you didn’t know about Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure to commemorate the films 25th anniversary of its theatrical release on February 17. The list includes tidbits directly related to the film as well as to the writers, and the film’s cast. A few tidbits include:
In the original screenplay, along with the likes of Napoleon, Beethoven, Billy the Kid, Socrates, Abraham Lincoln, and Joan of Arc, Bill and Ted were also supposed to recruit Charlemagne and Babe Ruth for their history class presentation. Just as they mispronounced Socrates as “So-crates,” they would have mispronounced Charlemagne as “Charlie Mangay.” Yet another medieval character they’d have brought back to the 20th century was a peasant called John the Serf, whose name you can still see listed in the credits.
To play Rufus, who travels back from the 27th century to guide Bill and Ted, the filmmakers initially thought of Sean Connery. It was only after shooting began that they approached comedian George Carlin instead.
Winter says he and Reeves are still close buds. In a Reddit AMA last year, Winter recalled, “Once we accidentally stepped out of a restaurant into the middle of the NYC Halloween Parade, and someone walked past us and said (without irony), ‘Hey look, it’s two old, fat guys trying to be Bill and Ted.'”