George Lucas's film - Red Tails, trailer online

[FourWheelDrift]

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/997870/at_last_fir...

Essentially a film about "African American World War II fighter pilots, and the prejudice that they had to face to fight for their country. These Tuskegee Airmen became known as the Red Tails, and George Lucas was working away on a script for the film, to tell a fictional story surrounding them."

Lots of WWII CGI air battles. B-17s, P-40s, P-51s, Me-109s and Me-262s.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Saturday 30th July 10:31

[Brigand]

This looks very good, even if its going to be a remake of the old movie 'Tuskegee Airmen'.

Despite the plethora of WW2 movies out in the past decade, its been a long time since we had war film about aircraft from what I can remember, and judging by the trailer, its definately one to be seen in the cinema!

[Streetrod]

Looks great

[The Hypno-Toad]

Really not impressed with the 'gangsta' pose the guy gives when he's standing next to his new Mustang 'ride'

The air battles look a bit "Death Star" to me too. But it might worth a look. Should be a second trailer out before the film hits, so I'll make a decision then.

[FourWheelDrift]

As long as Jar Jar Binks isn't one of the pilots it'll be fine.

[The Hypno-Toad]

FourWheelDrift said:

As long as Jar Jar Binks isn't one of the pilots it'll be fine.

Oh I don't know. He could be the one with the two kids and a ranch back home, who goes down in flames screaming while somebody tells him to "Shut up and die like an aviator!"

I'd quite enjoy that.

[Tsippy]

I trust that there'll be no use of the word 'nigga' seeing as it's not permitted in Dambusters?

Could be good, however the CGI looks too fake, almost computer game like

[dxg]

Tsippy said:

I trust that there'll be no use of the word 'nigga' seeing as it's not permitted in Dambusters?

Could be good, however the CGI looks too fake, almost computer game like

Yes, I'm not convinced that every plane would have been spotlessly clean, as shown there.

I'm less certain about the *numbers* depicted. Were there really that many in the air at the same; that close together? My memories of old black and white war movies suggests not.

[FourWheelDrift]

It's not out till next January so plenty of time in post production to dirty up the CGI or a make a few edits, the thing with CGI is that stuff can be taken away just as easily as added. As long as Lucas doesn't do the adding

[Negative Creep]

Now this I'm looking forward to. Given the level of interest in the subject it's odd that there have been so few big budget films of recent times about the air war. Aside from the upcoming Dambusters remake, all I can think of is Memphis Belle and Pearl Harbor?

[Mr Dave]

dxg said:

Tsippy said:

I trust that there'll be no use of the word 'nigga' seeing as it's not permitted in Dambusters?

Could be good, however the CGI looks too fake, almost computer game like

Yes, I'm not convinced that every plane would have been spotlessly clean, as shown there.

I'm less certain about the *numbers* depicted. Were there really that many in the air at the same; that close together? My memories of old black and white war movies suggests not.

Many of the daytime raids featured a few hundred bombers and a good lot of fighters so yes the raid in the trailer would be only part of one or a small raid.

They werent called thousand bomber raids for no reason.

February 20 1944. Eighth Air Force put up over 1,000 B-17s and B-24s and over 800 fighters and the RAF provided sixteen squadrons of Mustangs and Spitfires.

The next day, over 900 bombers and 700 fighters of Eighth Air Force hit more aircraft factories in the Braunschweig area.

On February 24, with the weather clearing over central Germany, Eighth Air Force sent over 800 bombers, hitting Schweinfurt and attacks on the Baltic coast, with a total of 11 B-17s being lost.

So yeah, they raids could be very big at times, and then the areas hit during the day by the USAAF were hit by night by the RAF.

[Negative Creep]

I'm not sure how accurate this is, but I do remember reading that on the largest raids, the distance form the lead to tail bomber was 17 miles

[moribund]

Is it me or just the cgi just really obviously look like cgi? Don't think ILM have learnt anything since the last Star Wars from looking at that.

[Streps]

Could be the sleep deprivation but i'm liking this.
Gives me a feel of the re-imaged Battlestar galactica but with a WW2 setting..

[alfabadass]

moribund said:

Is it me or just the cgi just really obviously look like cgi? Don't think ILM have learnt anything since the last Star Wars from looking at that.

I don' think its the GC quality that is the problem.

Our minds cannot fathom that many planes and bombers that close together as we've never seen anything like it in real life.

Yet 60 years ago, it was a normal bombing raid.