The trailer for George Lucas’s Red Tails has arrived, and for a World War II movie, it looks damn good.
[quicktime]http://www.majorspoilers.com/media/redtails.mov[/quicktime]1944. As the war in Europe continues to take its toll on Allied forces, the Pentagon brass has no recourse but to consider unorthodox options – including the untried and untested African-American pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, they are given the ultimate chance to show their courage. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies to fight for their country – and the fate of the free world.
via LucasFilm
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This looks good. I hope it does well, but I have doubts that Lucas can deliver.
That trailer does indeed look damm good. Very cool seeing the ME-262’s in action. The rest of the movie may suck, but at least the action sequences look like they’ll be worth the price of admission.
I’ll be curious to see how they spin those daylight strategic bombing missions that appear to take up most of the action scenes. The modern sensivity to any collateral damage in warfare doesn’t really jive with the wanton destruction of urban areas that those missions often involved.
They will sanitize the collateral damage it by showing it from 20,000 feet. It’s kind of like all those WWII films where no one got hurt except for the evil Nazis.
Cuba Gooding is horrible
About time, this movie has been in works since before Willow.
Lucas ain’t directing so the odds of it being good have improved..