Super Bowl 2020 Trailers: 10 Things We Learned

by Jack Pooley

1. Digitally De-Aged Bill S. Preston Looks Surprisingly... EXCELLENT

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No Super Bowl commercial this year more aggressively prodded our nostalgia receptors than Walmart's two-minute ad which incorporated pop-culture staples such as Star Trek, Toy Story, The LEGO Movie, Mars Attacks!, Men in Black, Arrival, Guardians of the Galaxy, Flash Gordon, Star Wars, and even Bill & Ted.

No, Keanu Reeves sadly didn't appear in the commercial, though we did get a surprising cameo from his Bill & Ted co-star Alex Winter, who steps out of the iconic phone booth time machine with a younger, digitally de-aged version of himself in tow.

The quick glimpse confirmed two things: Alex Winter's still got it, and digital de-aging is getting better every day, because despite the limited budget of a TV commercial, CGI young Bill looked surprisingly convincing for the most part.

Does this mean we might be seeing similar digital trickery in the upcoming sequel, Bill & Ted Face the Music, or was this really just thrown together solely for the sake of Walmart? We'll find out for ourselves on August 21.

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