Red Tails
George Lucas has been talking up his Tuskegee Airmen drama Red Tails since 1988, a time when comparing it to Tucker: A Man And His Dream actually meant something to the general population. Over the intervening 20-odd years, of course, Lucas has been busy opening up new locations in his Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, leaving him little time to concern himself with the relatively smaller true story about African-American pilots in World War II—and thus lending the project some kind of mythological aura. (Adding to that: The fact that director Anthony Hemingway had to leave to work on Treme during reshoots, leading to speculation that Lucas himself may have handled certain sequences.) Now, after over two decades of discussion, Red Tails finally has a January release date, a trailer, and a whole lot of strange, built-up expectation for what sounds like a pretty standard-issue WWII drama.