George Lucas' Red Tails

[Galactus]

Lucas Not Directing Red Tails
By Garth Franklin
Thursday, June 19th 2008 12:49am
George Lucas is NOT directing "Red Tails" a Lucasfilm spokesperson told Variety's Anne Thompson.

John Ridley is penning the script for the project which focuses on the Tuskegee Airmen and the racism the World War II airmen faced.

Lucas will serve as executive producer on the project which Rick McCallum and Charles Floyd Johnson are producing.

No-one else is attached at present, no distributors or financing is yet locked. Steven Spielberg is also NOT pursuing the project.

 

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[tzarinna]

Lucas Not Directing Red Tails
By Garth Franklin
Thursday, June 19th 2008 12:49am
George Lucas is NOT directing "Red Tails" a Lucasfilm spokesperson told Variety's Anne Thompson.

John Ridley is penning the script for the project which focuses on the Tuskegee Airmen and the racism the World War II airmen faced.

Lucas will serve as executive producer on the project which Rick McCallum and Charles Floyd Johnson are producing.

No-one else is attached at present, no distributors or financing is yet locked. Steven Spielberg is also NOT pursuing the project.

So, all the Tuskegee Airmen will be dead and buried by the time this comes out?

 

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Jackson Eyeing Red Tails
George Lucas wants Mace Windu in the director's chair.

During an exclusive one-on-one interview today with Lakeview Terrace star Samuel L. Jackson, the actor spoke with IGN Movies about the possibility that he might re-team with Star Wars creator George Lucas for the latter's World War II production Red Tails.

Lucas has long been developing Red Tails, which chronicles the exploits of the African-American war heroes known as the Tuskegee Airmen. John Ridley penned the most recent draft of the screenplay. Given his box office stature and past history of working with Lucas on the Star Wars prequels and the recently released Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated feature, we asked Jackson if Lucas had spoken to him about being in the picture. It turns out that he has, and that the Bearded One sees Jackson playing a much larger role in the project than just as an actor.

"I just read it like two weeks ago. It's a pretty good script," Jackson began. "At one point (Lucas) was asking me if I'd ever want to direct anything. I said, 'I don't know, man. I'm trying to find things.' He said, 'Well, let me send you this thing. Maybe you might want to direct it.'"

Jackson continued, "Well, I guess if I was gonna direct something George would be a great guy to kind of mentor me through that, especially a big ass special effects flying picture. The script's good. I like it."

But when pressed if he would seriously consider helming Red Tails, Jackson replied, "I don't know. I don't have a year and a half of my life where I wanna stop acting."

Wasn't posted yesterday.

 

[Gotham]

Samuel L. Jackson directing? I'd like to see that.

 

[tzarinna]

Would be interesting to see his approach.

 

[DocHoliday]

As a first timer, I dunno. I guess George and ILM could help him with the dog fights.

 

[Gotham]

As a first timer, I dunno. I guess George and ILM could help him with the dog fights.

He would also star, so that may help. Could be really, really interesting if he chooses to do it.

 

[Timstuff]

There was a pretty good TV movie about the Tuskegee Airmen (aptly titled made for HBO in the 90's starring Lawrence Fishburn and Cuba Goodding Jr. (and the guy who played Theo Huxtable, lol). I saw it in my history class and I really liked it, although they did have to go the cheapo-route with the dog fights and use actual WW2 footage, which was a little disappointing for me. Lucas' film will undoubtedly feature some pretty spectacular air battles, which will probably be enough to get my attention. I just hope that the script is well written and they get a competent director behind the camera. I certainly like the sound of Samuel L. Jackson doing it.

 

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Anthony Hemingway To Direct George Lucas’ Red Tails

 

[Darth Elektra]

Hope this film turns out terrific.

 

[Dr. Fate]

Anthony Hemingway To Direct George Lucas’ Red Tails

So this film is actually being made?

 

[terry78]

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40288

It's pretty much greenlit and ready to roll now.

 

[CFE]

I'm super excited to see him breaking the boundaries of 'SW' and 'Indy' and doing something new, as far as he's concerned.

Go for it, Lucas.

 

[terry78]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=54254

Quite an eclectic cast he got on this one. Cuba, do not **** this up.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

It was looking good until Ne-yo and Method Man names creeped in. Not that they suck or anything but I recognize them for something else.


And Cuba better reign that crazy-eye stuff he's been doing lately.

 

[arachnid-guy]

Digression from reading article.


Man...Tom Stoppard apparently worked on Revenge of the Sith?!?
rock n' roll indeed.

 

[Bim]

Happy to see this is finally moving forward.

 

[chamber-music]

This movie has the most random cast. You got shakespearean British actor David Oyelowo and Aml Ameen, Bubbles and Method Man from The Wire, Cuba Gooding Jr in a WW2 movie where he isn't in the navy for a change (i.e Pearl Habour or Men Of Honor), Terrence Howard as a soldier again (not Rhodey), Hairspray's Elijah Kelly, Dixon from 91210, the dad from Malcom In The Middle and Neyo.

 

[Bim]

Nice! i get the feeling my dad will want to see this one with me when it comes out t:

 

[terry78]

Nice, nice.

 

[MadVillainy]

This looks really good. Comes out on my birthday too. But the January release date is a bit worrying. I mean I know good movies could be released in January but still I know it mostly for a dumping month

 

[8wid]

This looks really good. Comes out on my birthday too. But the January release date is a bit worrying. I mean I know good movies could be released in January but still I know it mostly for a dumping month

When the h*** was all that made?! I thought he was still looking for a director and it's done?

 

[DarkKnight88]

Looks great!

Here's the real Tuskegee Airmen

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[Bim]

This one looks pretty good, very excited to see it! Will definitely take my dad with me for this one t: