Keanu Reeves talks 'Bill & Ted' three-quel

Keanu Reeves says there will be a third installment of the cult "Bill & Ted" franchise.

Dude.

The actor, who played Ted in the films, had previously said that original writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon were "going to try and see if they can write something."

And while promoting his indie comedy "Henry's Crime," he told MTV Monday that he believed "the writers are six weeks away from a draft."

The previous films, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey," hit theaters in 1989 and 1991, respectively, and costarred Alex Winter as Bill. The actors, who in "Excellent Adventure" played high schoolers traveling through time to piece together a history project, are now in their mid-40s -- and Reeves says that's "pretty excellent."

"The Matrix" star said the third film will likely build on the previous story lines.

"When we last got together, part of it was that Bill and Ted were supposed to have written the song that saved the world, and it hasn't happened," Reeves told MTV. "So they've now become kind of possessed by trying to do that. Then there's an element of time and they have to go back."

Do you think a third installment would be excellent or bogus?

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Photo: Keanu Reeves attends a screening of "Henry's Crime" at Landmark's Sunshine Cinema on April 4, 2011, in New York City. Credit: Larry Busacca / Getty Images

Exclusive video: 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee'

The Ministry has an exclusive clip from the movie "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee," featuring Robin Wright Penn and Keanu Reeves.

The characters appear calm and in control, but that's sort of the premise: The "perfect life" can hide many dramatic, decadent and desperate lives that came before.

Any film that has someone's life unraveling will get the Ministry's attention. 

Especially if the "unravel-ee" is the lovely and talented Robin Wright Penn, who, according to the New York Times, "at 43 is so hauntingly beautiful that she has nothing to fear from anybody’s lens."

Blake Lively of "Gossip Girl" is also in the cast as a younger version of Pippa. The Dish Rag has an interview with her over at Zap2It.

We have the "Pippa" preview after the jump.