George Lucas planning to make a WWII film "Red Tails"

[blkstne]

Silly walkin Bastard, I like the siggy Cosimo.....

There are soooo many other topics worth making a movie about concerning the air-war during WW2.... Why a bunch of over-hyped black guys flying Mustangs is more interesting than say the Cactus Air force or the Black sheep or the disasters at Schweinfurt (sp) or Cassel is lost on me....

There already has been a movie about the Tuskeegee Project, and in it they propagated the myth even more so about not losing a single bomber while escorting....


Pure horseshit...

I also wouldn't mind seeing a movie done about the 761st.
761st Tank Battalion

 

[muggs]

Trailer is out, looks great imo ! The cast's not bad either

Red Tails trailers and video clips on Yahoo! Movies

 

[Airframes]

Could be good, but not keen on some of the CGI work.

 

[Trebor]

I am even more excited to see this film after seeing the trailer. absolutely amazing special effects, the CGI models of the planes are amazing. I'm especially excited to see the German Jets included

 

[Messy1]

Looks very good. I guess the CGI is a tradeoff, maybe there is not a way for the movie to be made as realistic as possible with the large amount of planes involved without cgi. Done right, most people will never know the difference. I hope it is done like Saving Private Ryan, as realistic as possible, not in the way of Windtalkers. With Lucas involved, I am fairly excited to see it!

 

[rochie]

i think it looks great

 

[evangilder]

Interesting that Cuba Gooding Jr was also in the Tuskegee Airmen. I'll go see it.

 

[renrich]

No way I will go see it. I get enough propaganda just trying to watch the news on TV. The media in this country which includes Hollywood is so one sided, for the most part, I believe they are out greatest enemy.

 

[pbfoot]

No way I will go see it. I get enough propaganda just trying to watch the news on TV. The media in this country which includes Hollywood is so one sided, for the most part, I believe they are out greatest enemy.

Gotta agree with you on the propaganda some of it even makes Texas look good.. I'll be heading out to watch that flick

 

[TheMustangRider]

Given the unfortunate fact that new WWII movies are rarer and rarer as time passes by, I'm looking forward to see this film and hope they will make it as accurate as possible.
Wish I was alive in the 60's and 70's when so many movies about the war were made and get to see them in the big screen.

 

[GrauGeist]

I'll give the "Red Tails" a yawn and pass on it. They've already pumped up the Tuskagees enough and with the lack of coverage on other historical points in the war, I think that they could spend thier time and money on other historical events of that war.

Why not a movie about the 442nd "Nissei" in Europe for example? The possabilities are close to infinite, but it seems that Hollywood prefers to stay in a comfort zone these days...

 

[Crimea_River]

I agree with Terry. The tendency seems toward making the skies too crowded and everything too close together. Not to mention the 25G turns.

 

[Messy1]

Spielberg and Lucas are good friends and collaborate on many movies. Maybe Spielberg will have something to do with this movie too? any ideas on credits yet?

 

[Messy1]

Never mind. answered my own question. Cast is pretty strong, several academy award winners, hopefully the movie will make use of them.

 

[bobbysocks]

it was kind of interesting that the one guy who is playing a 332nd pilot in this flick played one in "hart's war". the one who was on trial. its not all CGI....your dog fights are but there are some good real "merlin moments". i posted this in the other thread about this....a vid taken in prague of filming...some good flybys...and washing the 332 makeup off of Old Crow.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=athETK-ba5w

its going to be a hollywood movie...make no bones about it. there will be a lot of dramatization and polishing up of legends and stories. i will watch it for the few good flying scenes and chuckle at the blunders but will probably wait for it to come to pay per view.

 

[riacrato]

I watched one hollywood movie purely for the CGI WW2 flight action once (Pearl Harbor), I'm not going to make that same mistake again.

 

[seesul]

Why are the Red Tails escorting 8th USAAF bombers instead of 15th???

 

[Airframes]

THAT'S what looked wrong about the B17's !! Those red fins looked like the 91st or 391st BGs, both 8th USAAF.

 

[seesul]

Right Terry, and look at the rudder of some Bfs...yellow horizontal stripe on it...

 

[Ratsel]

Really?