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The Birdman is flocking to HBO. At the moment, the community launched a trailer for Tony Hawk’s upcoming documentary, aptly titled Tony Hawk: Till the Wheels Fall Off. Pairing interviews with the skater himself with fellow pioneers within the sport and a killer soundtrack, the doc is a nostalgic prayer answered for millennials who nonetheless have thumb imprints from taking part in Professional Skater on N64 (and later in life discovered Hawk to be one in all their favourite Twitter follows).
Hawk opens the trailer with a quote you may additionally hear from his limbs: “I at all times felt slightly misplaced,” he says. “However I’d discovered this factor that I’d beloved, and I had a lot extra to show.” And show he did, because the skateboarder has gone on to win a complete bevy of awards, doc his personal methods, star because the titular character in a online game saga, delivery a skateboard firm, and discovered a philanthropic basis. Whereas followers shouldn’t anticipate a complete rundown of Hawk’s stacked resume, Till the Wheels Fall Off hopes to scrape the floor.
The skater extraordinaire can be on the coronary heart of the doc, naturally, lending his voice to hours of interviews to supply a holistic take a look at his life over the previous couple of many years. Now nearing his mid-50s, Hawk has since retired, however nonetheless stands as one of many (if not the) most influential skate boarders of all time. However it’s not all interviews! Till the Wheels Falls Off will characteristic never-before-seen footage of—gasp—Hawk awkwardly studying the best way to skate. Think about! Kickass stunts, we’d guess, think about closely, too. That is the man who perfected the 900, and took aggressive skateboarding mainstream.
Alongside Hawk, the doc will characteristic interviews with legendary skaters like Stacy Peralta, Rodney Mullen, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Neil Blender, Andy MacDonald, Duane Peters, Sean Mortimer, Christian Hosoi, and extra. For each iconic skateboarder, there’s an equally-stellar musical act to lend their voice to the soundtrack: The Conflict, The Intercourse Pistols, Pleasure Division, Pavement, to call only a few.
Sam Jones, recognized for music docs like I Am Making an attempt to Break Your Coronary heart and Off Digital camera (and directing an episode of Ted Lasso), will direct. Mel Eslyn, Mark and Jay Duplass will produce below their Duplass Brothers banner, teaming with HBO Documentary Movies and Beware Doll.
After a splashy premiere this weekend on the SXSW Movie Pageant,Tony Hawk: Till the Wheels Fall Off will glide on over to HBO on Tuesday, April 5 at 9 p.m. ET.