Just read in the paper yesterday that George Lucas is producing a new movie about the Tuskegee Airmen…Production on the movie will begin in the fall. Movie is titled “Redtails”
Should be great
Mark
Pop some Popcorn, I won’t miss that one !!
Regards, Rick
I saw this on a website last week. There’re also a couple other WWII movies coming out that look fairly promising. But I’m not talking about the Tom Cruise movie.
Kielers…would you be so kind please & pop that link here?
Greatly appreciated.
[#toast], Dave.
HOLLY BAT CRAPMAN!! I cant wait for that one! Will defenatly be waiting for that one! Rhanks for the info…Harv
Oh Baby can’t wait for that one. Maybe some decal makers will come out with some new sheets to coincide with the release.
And kielers… welcome back guy. Where ya been and how ya been?
I wont miss this one either, if anyone has a link, that’d be great.
What other ones are coming out, besides the tom cruise one? I saw a preview for the tom cruise movie, I think it look’s pretty good, I saw a few german planes flying around in the preview. But that’s the only WWII flick that I know of, so what else is coming out?
About time… The HBO movie was absolutely horrid in just about every way possible…
Great concept and certainly a tale that needs to be told to the world. I hope he does not drop the ball on this one. I would have thought Spielberg would do this before Lucas. Especially how he likes to put Mustangs in his war movies.
He also has had an affinity for P-40s in 1941 …
as for Lucas, he did splice together footage from news serials and old war movies of dogfights as inspiration for that great attack sequence on the Death Star in Episode IV.
It won’t be hard to improve over the first one…it was pretty cheesy.
Jerry
Awesome! Need a few good new war movies.
I’m finishing watching “Band of Brothers” tonight. Has to be one of the best movies i’ve ever seen.
REMEMBER, since I’m new here I’m allowd stupid questions. How would they shoot scenes with a bunch of WW11 fighters (mustangs) in the air or on the ground, painted with the proper markings, in this day and age? Computer animation?
I recall seeing a couple of real mustangs in “saving private Ryan”. But a whole squadron? That would be most excellent!
Well, that’s OUR job. How many 1:72 P-51B’s can you crank out in a month? I’m good for about a dozen. But this IS Lucas we’re talking about. He’ll have the whole thing acted against green-screen with everything else computer generated.
REMEMBER, since I’m new here I’m allowd stupid questions. How would they shoot scenes with a bunch of WW11 fighters (mustangs) in the air or on the ground, painted with the proper markings, in this day and age? Computer animation?
I recall seeing a couple of real mustangs in “saving private Ryan”. But a whole squadron? That would be most excellent!
If he sticks with D models, and is willing to pay for it, there are more than enough flying examples to outfit a squadron. There are 3-4 B/C models left in flying condition. It gets a little more problematic when it comes to the early years with the P-39, P-40 and P-47.
Yeah, I went to the “Sun & Fun Fly In” in Kissemmee, Fla a few years back, there were 80+ Ponys in attendance… It was really something to hear a bunch of Packard-Rolls engines flying overhead at any particular time… I got a real good impression of what a USAAF fighter field must have sounded like in 1944-45 in England. With the number of cottage industries that support Mustang replacement parts, the P-51 is probably going to remain the most numerous Warbird flying for many more years…
Dave,
Here’s the website I saw this on last week.
Do you know where Platteville, Wisc. is?
Thanks Kielers.
I do know where Platteville, WI is…I am on the opposite side of the state from there. It is in the SW corner & I reside in a town next to Milwaukee. Milwaukee is in SE Wisconsin, on the Lake Michigan coast.
[#toast], Dave.
Always room for a good war movie, in the air or on the ground.
I would hope, though, that he doesn’t Hollywoodize it too much and perpetuate the “no bomber was ever shot down while under Redtails protection” myth.
Actually, it was never said that “no bomber was ever shot down with the Redtails”, it was that “no bomber was lost to enemy fighters”…