George Lucas Will Be Directing Red Tails Reshoots After All
Last week a story came out that we didn’t latch onto because at the time we sort of new it seemed weak and really just wanted to see what would happen. Our pals at FS.Net were all over it though citing that George Lucas, was displeased with director Anthony Hemingway’s work, would be directing some heavy reshoots for the upcoming Lucasfilm production of Red Tails.
When the story broke there and around the web, a Lucasfilm representative had debunked it saying it was “completely inaccurate.”
However, reading some Entertainment Weekly, we have come to find out that the Lucasfilm was either not in the know or was blowing smoke. The site reports hat Lucas has indeed been directing reshoots on the film, but supposedly only because Hemingway is busy working on the HBO series “Treme” for David Simon not because of the unhappy sentiments from the Lucasfilm king.
This all seems a bit weird that the reshoots were planned, supposedly, but then why would Hemingway not have it in his schedule and not leave to work on another project? My thoughts are that Lucas, the financier, producer and Emperor Palpatine of Lucasfilm was really unhappy and they are trying to PR the story with EW. Hemingway left to work on Treme and according to FS.Net, “will get an opportunity to approve everything that Lucas is shooting.”
Yeah like that is going to happen. Begs the question will he even like what Lucas is reshooting anyway? who knows but this project seems to be doomed right now leaving a very bad feeling about it.
In case you are not aware of the film Red Tails follows the Tuskagee Airmen. In 1944 World War II rages and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. Meanwhile the black pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program are courageously waging two wars at once — one against enemies overseas, and the other against discrimination within the military and back home. Racial prejudices have long held ace airman Martin “Easy” Julian (Nate Parker) and his black pilots back at base — leaving them with little to do but further hone their flying skills — while their white counterparts are shipped out to combat after a mere three months of training. Mistakenly deemed inferior and assigned only second-rate planes and missions, the pilots of Tuskegee have mastered the skies with ease but have not been granted the opportunity to truly spread their wings. Until now.
As the war in Europe continues to take its dire toll on Allied forces, Pentagon brass has no recourse but to reconsider these under-utilized pilots for combat duty. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, Col. A.J. Bullard (Terrence Howard) awards them the ultimate chance to prove their mettle high above. Undaunted by the prospect of providing safe escort to bombers in broad daylight — a mission so dangerous that the RAF has refused it and the white fighter groups have sustained substantial losses — Easy’s pilots at last join the fiery aerial fray. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies in a heroic endeavor to combat the enemy — and the discrimination that has kept them down for so long.
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