Red Tails Premieres Today

What are you doing tonight? Nah, not good enough. Change your plans as tonight's the night that George Lucas's Red Tails comes out. A movie decades in the making, it's Lucas's love letter to the Tuskegee Airmen, the brave pilots who fought the Germans in the air and the racism of their fellow Americans on the ground. The movie's dog fights are by Lucas's own ILM, and the funding for the film, almost $100 million, is from Lucas as well. We worked with Lucasfilm to present a Red Tails flight sim at NYCC in 2011, and it was one of the showstoppers of the show.

You can get a glimpse of Red Tails's story and dog fights in the film's trailer...

Beyond the flight simulator at NYCC, Lucasfilm presented one of the most genuine and intriguing panels at the convention, too, a panel featuring Red Tails cast, ILM animators, and a veteran Tuskegee Airman, together discussing the project. Lucas has done a lot to involve the real-life Airmen, and you can view a series of interviews with them on YouTube...

Lastly, here's Lucas himself on why the story compelled him and the importance of the film...

Red Tails premieres today in theaters.