March 17th, 2008
Star Wars creator George Lucas attended the ShoWest convention last week, where he gave a brief update on Red Tails, a WWII-film project about the Tuskegee Airmen he’s been meaning to produce for years.
ComingSoon.net quotes Lucas as saying: “We’re getting towards a script, and probably start shooting before the end of the year, and it should come out next year, maybe. That’s probably going to be the last movie I do, apart from my own movies, but my own movies are going to be more esoteric and probably will come and go in a week and be in one or two arthouses. It’s basically the same as what Francis (Ford Coppola) is doing.”
The movie will tell the story of a group of young pilots as they overcame racism to break the aviation color barrier and become the first African-American fighter pilots in U.S. military history. The unit’s planes were were distinguished by the red-painted tails that give the film its title.
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I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.