This article is about the 2012 film. For the African-American fighter pilots who were nicknamed "Red Tails", see Tuskegee Airmen. For other uses, see Red tail.
Red Tails
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Anthony Hemingway
Screenplay by
John Ridley
Aaron McGruder
Story by
John Ridley
Based on
Red Tails, Black Wings: The Men of America's Black Air Force by John B. Holway
Produced by
Rick McCallum
Chas. Floyd Johnson
Starring
Nate Parker
David Oyelowo
Ne-Yo
Elijah Kelley
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Terrence Howard
Cinematography
John Aronson
Edited by
Michael O'Halloran
Ben Burtt
Music by
Terence Blanchard
Production company
Lucasfilm Ltd.
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release dates
January 11, 2012 (2012-01-11) (New York City)
January 20, 2012 (2012-01-20) (United States)
Running time
125 minutes
Country
United States
Languages
English German
Budget
$58 million[1][2][3][4]
Box office
$50.4 million[5]
Red Tails is a 2012 American war film directed by Anthony Hemingway in his feature directorial debut, and starring Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr. The film is about the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African-American United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) servicemen during World War II. The characters in the film are fictional, although based on real individuals.[6] The film was produced by Lucasfilm Ltd. and released by 20th Century Fox, and would be the last film Lucasfilm released before being purchased by The Walt Disney Company nine months later. This was Cuba Gooding Jr.'s first theatrically released film in five years since his starring role in 2007's Daddy Day Camp.
John Ridley wrote the screenplay. Additional material was shot the following year with executive producer George Lucas as director[7] and Aaron McGruder as writer of the reshoots.[8] It was filmed in March and July 2009. Red Tails was a personal project for Lucas, one that he had originally conceived in 1988. It is the first Lucasfilm production since the 1994 film Radioland Murders that is not associated with the Indiana Jones or Star Wars franchises.[9] Terrence Howard had previously portrayed a Tuskegee pilot in Hart's War (2002), and Cuba Gooding Jr. had previously starred in The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), an HBO made-for-television film about the same group of pilots.
^Demby, Gene. "George Lucas: Hollywood Didn't Want To Fund 'Red Tails' Because Of Its Black Cast." huffingtonpost.com, January 11, 2012.
^Fernandez, Jay A. "Director picked for Lucasfilm project." The Hollywood Reporter, September 30, 2008.
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^Fritz, Ben. "Movie Projector: Fourth "Underworld" to Soar Higher Than 'Red Tails'." The Los Angeles Times, January 20, 2012. Retrieved: January 25, 2012.
^"Red Tails (2012)." Box Office Mojo/Internet Movie Database, June 10, 2012. Retrieved: June 18, 2014.
^Cone, Brandon and Josh Phillips. "‘Red Tails’ looks good, fails elsewhere." Bixby Bulletin, January 24, 2012. Retrieved: January 25, 2012.
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