Red Tails: the Black Top Gun? - Entertainment & Culture - EBONY
Twenty three years. That’s how long it took George Lucas to amass the money, the men and the might to produce a top-flight war movie about a cadre of America’s greatest heroes: the Tuskegee Airmen.
Granted, the story of the baby-faced World War II Black fighter pilots isn’t new, but it isn’t told nearly enough. And until now, it certainly hasn’t been given a budget of $93 million—a budget spent on a Black director, a leading cast of 13 Black men, a Black screenwriter, a Black fi lm scorer, a Black producer and the real-life stories told by the last of the Tuskegee Airmen, who consulted on the script and faithfully waited more than two decades to see their history-making dogfights showcased on the big screen.
Granted, the story of the baby-faced World War II Black fighter pilots isn’t new, but it isn’t told nearly enough. And until now, it certainly hasn’t been given a budget of $93 million—a budget spent on a Black director, a leading cast of 13 Black men, a Black screenwriter, a Black fi lm scorer, a Black producer and the real-life stories told by the last of the Tuskegee Airmen, who consulted on the script and faithfully waited more than two decades to see their history-making dogfights showcased on the big screen.
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