I heard this was on the way and just caught the trailer.
I can’t wait. Even if it turns out to be a little Pearl Harborish.
The trailer is so glurgy that I’m almost completely put off even though I have a soft spot for this subgenre of war movie.
Will it offer anything not already depicted in HBO’s The Tuskegee Airmen?
Better special effects maybe. Either way, I’ll be there.
I’m rather curious to see something George Lucas is involved in that isn’t Star Wars or Indiana Jones.
Thank the movie-gods he didn’t write the screenplay or direct it.
He apparently based the Millenium Falcon X Wing battles on WWII Ariel combat.
BTW did the Tuskegee Airmen ever engage Me-262s?
ugh
I saw the trailer. I wish the people who create the computer-generated images would learn how airplanes move. As a pilot who grew up watching airplane movies made with real airplanes (as well as countless hours of newsreel footage in documentaries), CGI airplanes bug the hell out of me. They just don’t move right. (Not to mention a scene in Pearl Harbor where a guy is shooting at a Japanese plane and completely missing the ship that was directly behind it.)
But I’ll see Red Tails.
On 24 March, 1945 Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., Charles Brantly, and Earl Lane each shot down a Messerschmitt Me-262.
She doesn’t look nearly old enough to have fought in World War 2! 
And he’s been working on it for a very long time. I remember reading issues of Star Wars Insider (the Star Wars Fan Club magazine) in the mid-to-late '90s, in which Red Tails was always mentioned as another project which Lucas had in development (and, apparently, he’d been working on it as far back as 1988). Frankly, I’m amazed that he finally made it.
The History Channel show Dogfights has a reenactment of the engagement.
The previews look OK, but the fact that they are releasing it in January is concerning. That’s when studios release all of their crap movies. I’ll probably still go to see it, but I don’t have high hopes.
J.
Maybe they’re just a little early for Black History Month.
I’m a little concerned about some of the unrealistic aerial maneuvers I saw in the trailer, but I admire those guys so much (even met a couple of them) that I’ll still see the movie.
War movie without a love story?
War movie without a love story and bombers!
I’m so in.
There might still be a love story. There are a number of female roles listed on the Wikipedia page.
Some studios have counter-programed the “Crapuary” tradition by releasing good movies in the post-Christmas/pre-summer season. I know I hate all the Oscar candidates being lumped into two months, and really good films disappear in the scrum. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a great film, and most of it’s audience will not be able to see it until late January or early February. They don’t just put bad films the months in which you shouldn’t eat oysters, but films they just don’t know how to sell. WWII is not a great subject for the teens, and a mostly Black cast is a tough sell for anyone other than Tyler Perry - which is why The Tuskegee Airmen was on HBO.
What? Brave, dashing young fighter pilots are attractive to women?
Forbidden gay black fighter pilot romance will make big bucks. It’s gonna flying Brokeback Mountain!
They coulda called it On the Down High !