According to executive producer George Lucas, Red Tails is "as close as you'll ever get to [Star Wars] Episode VII." So it seems appropriate that seven minutes of the film have made their way online for your viewing pleasure. The action epic, over two-decades in the making, is directed by Anthony Hemingway and sports a super-impressive…
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I really love the action we've seen in the first two trailers for the George Lucas-produced, Anthony Hemingway-directed WWII film Red Tails. In both the first trailer and this new one, we see some spectacular dogfighting action. It's the sort of stuff that any student of Lucas knows has been the filmmaker's major preoccupation for…
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Break out your best 'delayed flight' metaphors: the George Lucas-produced film Red Tails, which follows the exploits of WWII flyers the Tuskegee Airmen, is finally going to hit skies. Or screens, as it were. The date: January 20, 2012, confirming previous info from director Anthony Hemingway that the film would be released this coming January.…
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Fans have been waiting to find out when we'd get to see Lucasfilm's first non-Star Wars or Indiana Jones film in two decades and today we might have our answer. Anthony Hemingway, the director of The Tuskegee Airmen film Red Tails, produced by George Lucas, just tweeted that the film will be released in January…
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One year has passed since we heard anything about Red Tails, the first Lucasfilm movie in almost two decades without the words "Star Wars" or "Indiana Jones" in the title. The World War II film about the legendary African-American pilots named The Tuskegee Airmen stars Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bryan Cranston, David Oyelowo, Method…
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We've heard a couple of rumors about Red Tails, the World War II flick about the Tuskegee Airmen produced by George Lucas and directed by Anthony Hemingway. But until now we haven't seen any photos or images. You can see a few behind the scenes shots after the break, culled from a large collection of…
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Not too long ago there was word that Red Tails, the WWII movie produced by George Lucas and directed by The Wire's Anthony Hemingway, would be undergoing extensive reshoots. At the time, the report was that Lucas and producer Rick McCallum were quite unhappy with Hemingway's material. That seemed dubious, though the idea of reshoots…
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Red Tails is one of those projects that I've never been interested in. George Lucas has been developing the film since 1989, and was originally going to direct the movie himself. He infamously put the project aside to helm the Star Wars prequels. It has now been officially announced that Anthony Hemingway (The Wire, CSI:…
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