Keanu Reeves spilled some details on the upcoming revival of his Bill And Ted franchise, which last released a movie in 1991.
The 54-year-old Matrix hunk appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Friday and discussed the in-the-works sequel, entitled Bill And Ted Face The Music.
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Alex Winter's character Bill and Keanu's Ted were meant to write a song that was 'supposed to unite the world and bring peace and everything, but they haven't.'
Keanu shared that the new movie will explore the question of 'what has that done to them,' now that they have families and yet are 'still trying to write the song.'
The premise of Bill And Ted Face The Music is that their song is necessary to 'save the universe, and you have to write the song in, like, 80 minutes.'
When the chat-show host asked what would happen if Bill and Ted failed to meet the task, Keanu replied that the 'end of the universe' would ensue.
Stephen then asked Keanu for his thoughts on what happens after death, and Keanu replied philosophically: 'I know that the ones who love us will miss us.'
The acclaimed actor has himself dealt with his share of personal tragedy - he and his girlfriend Jennifer Syme had a stillborn child in 1999.
Two years later, after Keanu and Jennifer had broken up amid the grief of their bereavement, she was killed in a car accident.
While on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Keanu also discussed his upcoming movie John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, out next Friday.
The film is legendary for its action scenes, and on the chat show Keanu dished the division of labor between himself and stuntman Jackson Spidell.
'Okay, so I'll do some fight scenes and then John Wick will get hit by a car, and that's Jackson Spidell, who's an amazing stuntman,' said Keanu.
At that point the film star himself will step back in for 'kung fu' and similar martial arts sequences, but 'if I get thrown off of something, then Jackson does his thing.'
The movies require a 'particular kind of action' because the 'director wants to make it immersive,' so there are 'really long takes' and Keanu must 'train for a while.'
For this training, he will 'get basically like a John Wick toolbox' of choreographed moves in various forms of martial arts including jiu-jitsu.
Keanu spilled that 'there's a horse fight now' that includes not only jiu-jitsu but also gunplay - all done while the leading man is riding his steed.
The 'safety systems' included a 'rig,' with the horse situated 'behind a truck' in a setup that the action movie star described as 'very complicated.'
He worked with a 'second-generation horsemaster' on these sequences, and said that he truly enjoyed the fact 'you get to meet these great instructors and teachers.'
Halle Berry, his co-star in the film, is frequently accompanied onscreen by a pair of Belgian Malinois dogs and had to 'train for about - over six months' with them.
'I didn't do the Halle Berry six-month training, because they were her dogs,' he shared, which led to an awkward moment when he first met the animals.
During his initial encounter with the pooches, he was instructed: 'Don't look them in the eye,' because otherwise 'they might do something not good.'
On the other hand, Halle had the training to look the dogs in the eye and in fact by the end of the process had become quite affectionate with them.
Keanu related a story from the set of the first John Wick where a dog actor 'escaped once in Times Square at five in the morning' and set off after a horse-drawn carriage.
