10 Alternate Endings To 2020 Movies You Almost Saw

Bill and Ted Face the Music ends with the rather predictable revelation that the task of saving the world has actually been left to Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted's (Keanu Reeves) daughters Billie (Brigette Lundy-Paine) and Thea (Samara Weaving), who with the help of their fathers must unite the entire universe in song to prevent time and space from collapsing.

Yet considering that the film was in development hell for around a decade, it's little surprise that the script, and especially its ending, went through numerous drafts over the years.

Co-writer Ed Solomon confirmed that a darker and more abrupt ending was actually featured in a 2010 draft, where Bill and Ted only realise their daughters were the key in the final seconds of the movie:

"We had a scene at the beginning where 20 years ago they had put $100,000 down to rent the Rose Bowl for their triumphant 20th Reunion Tour, and when we meet them in the movie when it opens they have sold literally zero tickets...And the whole movie happens like it happens [in Face the Music], they go into the future, their lives get worse and worse, and they arrive at the Rose Bowl and it's empty.

There's no instruments there. It didn't happen. They failed. And they go home and they sit down in their living room, and you're like one minute from the end of the movie. And they realize they failed, they feel like they failed, and then they hear music coming from the other room and they walk in and they look and see their kids and they realize it was never them, and the movie's over."

Solomon ultimately re-wrote the ending to be bigger, include Bill and Ted, and give the audience more closure at the behest of Winter and Reeves themselves:

"That was the first ending that we had, and Alex and Keanu were, I think correctly, like, 'Uh, that’s sort of a bummer.'"