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The series targets “tween” boys but the combination of serious skating and some well-known stars should open the audience to lots of kids outside that demographic. Matt Dearborn and Tom Burkhard (both of Disney Channel’s hit comedy series “Even Stevens”) created Zeke and Luther. They even plan a road trip to their idol, Tony Hawk’s homestead. Their exceptional skills get them into the biggest competitions. Their quest for fame and fortune leads them to practice landing the coolest tricks. Along the way, they manage to land themselves in a never-ending series of funny yet precarious predicaments. was filming an epsiode of a new Disney series called “Zeke and Luther.” The live-action, original comedy series centers on two best friends who set their sights on becoming the world’s greatest skateboarders. The real story was a lot more interesting than the manufactured drama.Ī film crew from Turtle Rock Productions, Inc.

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Apparently, people who work in the movie business need to add a little drama to something as commonplace as an answer to the question, “What are you doing?” There had to be an easier way to get an explanation for the horde of people wheeling huge lights, racks of costumes and expensive camera equipment around Pier Plaza. Maybe the connection he wanted, the one he needed would slip from his grasp like the slimy fish he’d seen squirming to escape from fishermen on the other side of the Pier. Two more conversations produced nothing more than a phone number scribbled on the back of a business card.Ī call, an excuse and another phone number cranked up the desperation that had begun to build like a storm in the man’s gut. “Come back this afternoon,” he said.įollowing instructions, the man arrived that afternoon with high hopes that he’d been cleared to move past the gatekeepers and onto the principals, the people who made things happen. He brought the conversation to an abrupt close. He parsed out the information he was willing to share like he was dividing up the single bottle of water on a life raft, one cap-full at a time.

The short, dark man with whom he met wore a security guard’s uniform. A brief exchange of fewer than 10 words between the man and one of the van’s occupants set an irreversible chain of events in motion.Ī week later on an overcast morning, oblivious to the cackling seabirds circling overhead, the man arrived at the Pier for another meeting. A man standing near the van looked out of place, his insignificant form dwarfed by the vast concrete plain upon which he stood. An unmarked, white van rolled cautiously to a stop on the empty top deck of the Pier parking structure early one winter morning.

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