Red Tails finally gets off the ground

[lazypadawan]

When I first heard about Red Tails in the early '90s, I thought (like many SW fen at the time) it was some secret code name for a new SW film. When things got rolling with SW again, RT got put on the backburner until now. It finally has a cast and director and will start shooting soon:

http://www.starwars.com/themovies/other/redtailsrelease.html

The story of the famed Tuskegee Airmen is an interesting one (I once worked with a guy whose grandfather was a Tuskegee Airman) and if it's done right, it ought to be a pretty decent film. Personally, I worry that the subject matter might drag the film into PC-ville, but we'll see how it turns out. Rick McCallum is apparently producing so it should be f@$#$ awesome ;).

Comments

[darth-pipes.livejournal.com]

It should be interesting. GL has an excellent cast and crew here and a lot of people who were involved in The Wire. At the very least, the CGI aeriel battles should be amazing to see. This film will look great.

The first time I heard about it was about six months before TPM was released. I've read GL has been wanting to do this film since 1989.

Of course, the bashers use this annoucemnt as an opportunity to bash Lucas and claim he's only making this kind of film to get an Oscar like Spielberg did. If they knew anything, they'd know he's a history buff who has been trying to get this film done for twenty years. He's not even directing it, where he can get all the glory.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

Since when do bashers know anything ;)?

[ashmh.livejournal.com]

The story of the famed Tuskegee Airmen is an interesting one (I once worked with a guy whose grandfather was a Tuskegee Airman) and if it's done right, it ought to be a pretty decent film. Personally, I worry that the subject matter might drag the film into PC-ville, but we'll see how it turns out.


It's a movie about the Tuskagee Airmen. And considering the amount of racism that they had faced during the war, the movie will go into PC-ville whether any of us like it or not.

HBO had done a film on the Tuskagee Airmen back in the mid-90s. It was pretty good.