{"id":214382,"date":"2025-06-25T23:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214382\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T23:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:25:11","slug":"jack-black-in-tony-hawks-pro-skater-3-4-as-officer-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214382\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Black in ‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4’ as Officer Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhen the \u201cTony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater\u201d franchise returns with new installment \u201c3 + 4\u201d on July 11, it\u2019s bringing Jack Black<\/a> back with it.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cA Minecraft Movie\u201d star is returning to the skate-boarding video game series in a reprisal of his role as Officer Dick from 2020\u2019s \u201cTony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater 1 + 2,\u201d which was a remake of the original run\u2019s first and second games. And now, Black is playing Dick\u2019s U.K. twin, Constable Richard, as well.<\/p>\n

\n\tPer \u201cTony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater 3 + 4\u201d publisher Activision, in his youth, \u201cRichard Ennvee was mocked by other skaters and called a \u2018poser.\u2019 Overtaken by the need for revenge, Dick vowed to one day become what those skaters feared most \u2013 the long arm of the law!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSo we really loved Jack Black\u2019s inclusion in the previous iteration [\u2018Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater 1 + 2\u2019]. He played a character called Officer Dick, and in the school maps, he was this school security guard who would yell at the skater and try and run them off the grounds,\u201d game director Kurt Tillmanns told Variety. \u201cWe just thought that was a really fun, interesting character and kept in this tradition of the celebrity cameo in a \u2018Tony Hawk\u2019 game. We wanted to carry that forward; we were really thankful he we reached out to him and he was down to to come back, but we wanted to tell a little bit more of the Officer Dick story.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tTillmanns explained that he and the team at Iron Galaxy refactored some goals from the original \u201cTony Hawk Pro Skater 4,\u201d where a character named Officer Tom was running for campus security sheriff at a college, to bring Officer Dick back in.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe can\u2019t tell all these highly intricate stories in the game, but behind the scenes, we\u2019re thinking, this is an interesting evolution of Officer Dick\u2019s midlife crisis of hating the skater,\u201d Tillmanns said. \u201cIn the last one, he\u2019s just on this high school ground, and trying to yell at the skaters, control the skaters. And now he\u2019s evolved, as his power trip has gone into becoming the campus security sheriff of a college. We wanted to bring him back and put our own stamp on it in that way and we\u2019re really happy that he was absolutely game to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd across the pond, Dick\u2019s doppelg\u00e4nger Constable Richard (voiced by Black doing a British accent) is terrorizing the skating youth in the U.K. in the game\u2019s London level.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to the options for changes of scenery, Iron Galaxy\u2019s Tillmanns explained his love for the \u201cTony Hawk\u201d video game franchise\u2019s history (across other developers including Neversoft and Vicarious Visions) of letting you skate in some \u201ccrazy, fantastical spaces.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think it\u2019s now more diverse in its settings and where it can go and what it can do,\u201d he said. \u201cOne thing that especially \u2018Tony Hawk\u2019 games can do that is unique to any other skating game, is they can really put you into these crazy, fantastical spaces. So one of the new levels that we made is pinball, where you\u2019re actually like a tiny pinball-sized skater in this massive pinball machine. And there\u2019s kind of a history of that in \u2018Tony Hawk\u2019 games, taking the skater and putting them into these fantastic places. And we hear a lot from the pros how influential it is to be skating in these larger-than-life environments in the video game; that it\u2019s inspirational for them to go out into the real world and find things and skate on things that they otherwise wouldn\u2019t have thought to do. So it\u2019s very interesting that we can somehow influence real-life skaters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGet a sneak peek at Black\u2019s roles as Officer Dick and Constable Richard in the \u201cTony Hawk Pro Skater 3 + 4\u201d teaser footage in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the \u201cTony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater\u201d franchise returns with new installment \u201c3 + 4\u201d on July 11, it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1616,53,85245,85244,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-214382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-jack-black","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-tony-hawks-pro-skater-1-2","11":"tag-tony-hawks-pro-skater-3-4","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114746590814432184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}