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Fox’s Red Tails, the Lucasfilm World War II action film inspired by the Tuskegee Airmen — the first African-American aerial combat unit — will be released Jan. 20, 2012, the companies announced today. The cast includes Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr, Bryan Cranston and David Oyelowo. Anthony Hemingway is directing; Rick McCallum and Charles Floyd Johnson produce, and George Lucas is executive producing. Here’s the teaser trailer unveiled this morning:
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Looks baaaaaaaaad. Looks made for tv. And once again ILM gives us terrible CG.
@Jack. Did you even watch the trailer?! Or maybe you should watch it on a better computer monitor. Because the one that I just watched looks pretty impressive. Can’t wait to see the movie!
When he said “if you can get us new planes… we can help you” the new planes looked pretty bad, other than that I agree it looked good.
Obviously, you don’t like the CG work from ILM…just curious…what work meets your standards…please?
Wow.
very subtle. so much buried in subtext.
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looks good, but dont release it in jan. maybe more like march
I liked it better when it was called Men Of Honor.
Great story, great cast, Cuba Gooding redeems himself. CGI looks Sharktopus / SyFy quality though.
This looks f’ing AWESOME. I can’t wait.
I was thinking this would end up going straight-to-video. Should I read anything into the absence of any studio logo (as in, could this still end up not getting into theaters)?
The HBO Tuskegee Airmen telefilm done more than ten years ago is waaaaay better than this looks. And had a stronger cast.
Although I’ve so far only seen this trailer I have to agree with you Avery. I saw Tuskegee Airmen a long while ago and it’s still with me – a fantastic film that is character- and not effects-driven.
What is there to complain about here?
Really, remember the “Battleship” trailer?
At least this is a story about human beings. It has some connection to reality. It’s not supposed to be an ‘amusement park’ thrill ride picture (I don’t think).
This is one of the rare cases where I think we should give George Lucas some credit for trying to do something decent.
Looks like it means well but that dialogue…ugh!
I think this looks fantastic. Terrible title, though. Hope it gets through the clutter and gets eyeballs.
I agree with Jack. Looks like an expensive cartoon.
It’s a shame. The Tuskegee Airmen could make a great story if told by a more gifted storyteller.
It just doesn’t work for me in a post Obama era. I understand the struggle, the injustice, but the story simply feels dated. It’s Tuskegee Airmen with bad CGI.
Are you high? Black people can’t have their historical stories told anymore just because the president is black? So, if we ever have a Jewish president, no more holocaust movies? I guess since Kennedy was president there should never be a story about the Irish and their struggles. I.g.n.o.r.a.n.t.
Speech, speech, speech, airplane, bomb, airplane, bomb, speech, speech, airplane, bomb.
I think the last word sums up the movie.
Wish I could like that trailer more.
This has been a long ‘labor of love’ filmmaking process for George Lucas. From the trailer, I give him the benefit of the doubt…his heart is in the right place…and, I am a sucker for real life action hero stories about the dedication and sacrifice of the US military.
For that alone…I will see this film.
I thought the film looked pretty interesting, but a couple of the plane shots (like at 1:34) looked really CGI’ed.
Props to Lucasfilm for branching out the content, though.
Weren’t Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr in the 90′s HBO Tuskegee Airmen movie?
Or am I just being racist?
I thought this was a Pixar film at first when I saw the effects.
Looks made for cable.
Seriously, do we need ANOTHER Tuskegee Airmen movie????
if it’s good, it’s good. but it looks rather weak. the scenes with the actors seemed VERY flat. Of course – it’s Lucas.
I don’t know, do we need ANOTHER Holocaust movie? God knows there’s a zillion of ‘em, and nobody EVER questions their relative worth.
I knew before I even opened the thread there would be a lot of stupid comments here. And look! I was right.
SFX reminded me of Flyboys, though. Did old time planes really fly like TIE fighters?
There have been multiple killer asteroid, killer volcano, vampire and vampire killer movies in the last 10 years, but anyone other than Ice T, Ice Cube or Martin Lawrence in a dress (thrice!) and suddenly it’s too much?
Would you prefer yet another WW2 movie that completely ignores the fact that there were black combat soldiers ON Omaha Beach on D-Day, and on Iwo Jima and fighting in all the other famous battles you watch on HBO on Memorial Day?
Predictable. I seriously do not think this film will do good outside the U.S.A. Better not release it.
The Japanese shot first – try not to change that, George.
+1
Now that is funny.
Looks cheesy, sounds cheesy, and looks static and leaden enough that it could have been directed by Lucas. No wonder they’re burning it off in January.
That guy is a jerk..the Cg looks great..and it looks like a great story..soooo jaded by jar jar binks..that was almost 15 years ago, it looks awesome
I’m a big fan of WW2 fighter movies….. but I’ve seen this before… only without the video game looking air battles.
TM, have a look at the Czech film Dark Blue World (also known as Dark Blue Sky) from 2001. It’s director Jan Sv?rák’s story of Czech fighter pilots who join Britain’s RAF after their country is invaded by the Nazis and what happened to them at the hands of the communists when they returned at the war’s end.