I know this was mentioned last week by Spike Lee but I wanted to await on some kind of official confirmation, simply because I rarely trust directors when they are talking about their peers projects rather than their own.
Anyway, we got some kind of official confirmation today (well unless Variety are just reporting Lee’s comments as being official) that t.v. helmer Anthony Hemingway will be directing RED TAILS, the years in the making WW-II fighter movie about Tuskegee Airmen penned by George Lucas.
Lucas originally wanted to direct the movie in 1989 but then decided to completely hault his career to raise his family, then when he did return he decided to spend over a decade working on three more STAR WARS movies. One wonders what a career Lucas may have had if he had never taken that break.
John Ridley who wrote the story THREE KINGS, has been writing based on Lucas’ outline for the past 12 months. Director Hemingway has worked on The Wire, E.R. and CSI: NY.
RED TAILS were the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II, overcoming racism in the military to form the Tuskegee Airmen.
Production will begin in March in Italy, Prague and Croatia.
