Alex Winter says he and Keanu Reeves have no role in the new Bill and Ted game that Art Of Play Interactive is advertising. The trailer for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure: Arcade uses their names and voices, but Winter says the project is moving ahead without their participation or oversight.
Winter wrote on Bluesky: “This is a bummer. It's cool to see a game come out but a shame they're advertising us as being involved, which we're not, at all. We have zero participation or oversight on this.” That leaves the trailer’s marketing in direct conflict with the only on-record statement from the franchise’s own cast.
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1989 gave the original Excellent Adventure its first life, and the new trailer leans hard on that history by presenting the game as an old-school beat-em-up that recreates the film’s events. It also uses audio that appears to come from the movie itself, including George Carlin, which makes the trailer feel less like a fresh production and more like borrowed franchise memory.
2020 was the last time Keanu Reeves participated in the franchise, with Bill & Ted Face The Music. Since then, any new Bill and Ted material has been sold on nostalgia, and that makes the accuracy of the voice and likeness claims more than a cosmetic issue for anyone deciding whether to back the project.
Art Of Play Interactive Trailer
A little more than a week before Winter’s post, Art Of Play Interactive released the trailer for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure: Arcade. The pitch matters because a crowdfunded game can live or die on whether potential backers believe the attached names are actually part of the production.
February 2027 is when The BackerKit campaign is expected to start, which gives the marketing a long runway before anyone has to commit money. If the trailer overstates involvement, the campaign will have to overcome a trust problem before the first pledge is even made.
BackerKit February 2027
Winter’s statement is the clearest signal so far: neither he nor Reeves is involved, and neither has any connection to the new game. For readers deciding whether to support it, that means the safest assumption is that the trailer’s celebrity framing is marketing, not participation.
The unresolved issue is straightforward and practical: if the game goes to BackerKit with the same presentation, fans and backers will have to judge it on the project itself, not on an implied return of Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.
