Where was Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure filmed?
1989 film directed by Stephen Herek
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) was filmed in Los Angeles — 1 recorded filming location in the United States. It is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
Part of the Bill & Ted film series
See them on the map → Wikipedia Source data
Filming locations
Also per Wikipedia's Filming section
Wikipedia’s Filming section names 13 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏙 Towns & cities
Phoenix
🇺🇸 United States
capital city of the U.S. state of Arizona and seat of Maricopa County
“Principal filming was shot in 1987 in the Phoenix, Arizona and Tempe, Arizona metropolitan areas.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Carefree
🇺🇸 United States
town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States
“The production also shot a sequence on the Western Street on the back lot of Southwestern Studio in Carefree, Arizona, as well as the scenes set in the future.” Wikipedia
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Arizona State University
🇺🇸 United States
public university in Tempe, Arizona, US
“The bowling alley was a Fair Lanes-branded alley at that time but is now the AMF Tempe Village Lanes on Rural Road at SR 360 (now signed as US 60), three miles south of Arizona State University.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Mesa
🇺🇸 United States
city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States
“The scenes at the fictional "Waterloops" water park (a play on the battle at Waterloo) are a combination of establishing shots at Raging Waters in San Dimas and shots with the actors at Golfland Sunsplash in Mesa, Arizona.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Tempe
🇺🇸 United States
city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Coronado High School
🇺🇸 United States
high school in Arizona
“Many scenes were filmed in and around Scottsdale's Coronado High School.” Wikipedia
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
East High School
🇺🇸 United States
high school for east Phoenix, Arizona
“The interior shots of the auditorium were filmed inside the East High School auditorium, which was in Phoenix on 48th Street just north of Van Buren.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Raging Waters
🇺🇸 United States
water park chain
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🛣 Streets & squares
U.S. Route 60 in Arizona
🇺🇸 United States
section of U.S. Numbered Highway in Arizona, United States
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Metrocenter
🇺🇸 United States
former shopping mall in Phoenix, Arizona, United States
“The mall was Phoenix Metrocenter, between Peoria and Dunlap Avenues at Interstate 17.” Wikipedia
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🛣 Streets & squares
Interstate 17
🇺🇸 United States
Interstate Highway in Maricopa, Yavapai, and Coconino counties in Arizona, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Scottsdale
🇺🇸 United States
city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States
“An empty office building in Scottsdale served as the police station.” Wikipedia
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🏰 Castles & palaces
Castello Orsini-Odescalchi
🇮🇹 Italy
castle in Bracciano, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Lazio, Italy
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in Arizona, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.
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Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure have?
1 place recorded on Wikidata, and 13 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across the United States.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
Pulp Fiction (1994), The Dark Knight (2008), Back to the Future (1985), Fight Club (1999) and 8 more, each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.