LucasFilm has released the fourth trailer for
Red Tails, and you can check it out below along with another new poster.
This trailer finally makes the movie seem powerful and…cool.
Hit the jump and watch the new trailer.
Here's the official synopsis:
1944. World War II rages and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. Meanwhile the black pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program are courageously waging two wars at once – one against enemies overseas, and the other against discrimination within the military and back home. Racial prejudices have long held ace airman Martin “Easy” Julian (Nate Parker) and his black pilots back at base – leaving them with little to do but further hone their flying skills – while their white counterparts are shipped out to combat after a mere three months of training. Mistakenly deemed inferior and assigned only second-rate planes and missions, the pilots of Tuskegee have mastered the skies with ease but have not been granted the opportunity to truly spread their wings.
Until now.
As the war in Europe continues to take its dire toll on Allied forces, Pentagon brass has no recourse but to reconsider these under-utilized pilots for combat duty. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, Col. A.J. Bullard (Terrence Howard) awards them the ultimate chance to prove their mettle high above. Undaunted by the prospect of providing safe escort to bombers in broad daylight – a mission so dangerous that the RAF has refused it and the white fighter groups have sustained substantial losses – Easy's pilots at last join the fiery aerial fray. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies in a heroic endeavor to combat the enemy – and the discrimination that has kept them down for so long.
The film's ensemble cast includes
Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard,
Bryan Cranston, Nate Parker,
David Oyelowo,
Tristan Wilds, Cliff Smith, Kevin Phillips, Rick Otto, Lee Tergesen,
Andre Royo, Ne-Yo, Elijah Kelley, Marcus T. Paulk, Leslie Odom Jr., Michael B. Jordan,
Gerald McRaney, Jazmine Sullivan, Edwina Finley,
Daniela Ruah and Stacie Davis.
Red Tails will be released to theaters on January 20th, 2012.
Director Anthony Hemingway led at the helm, based on a screenplay by John Ridley and Aaron McGruder, from the story by
George Lucas and Ridley.
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Looks ‘interesting’, but factual? The aerial combat looks like fun, buuuuuuuuuut, something is out of place. Guess I’ll have to see it.
Well… looks like it’ll be a good flick but kind of have raise an eyebrow at how quickly the ‘Hollywood hyperbole’ creeps in. Dunno why they decided to go with so much ME-262 action while they have apparently completely overlooked the FW-190-D, which was much more prevalent in the latter stages of the war. Also you have to really wonder who their historians are as the paint schemes on the 262s are, in a word, ludicrously inaccurate. OK, two words. Also it’s pretty well documented that about the only way you could hope to shoot one down in a P-51 was to ambush one that was slowed down in its landing pattern–the chances of besting a 262 in an even dogfight were slim to none, given the 262’s 100 mph speed advantage… and just for the record the 262 in that movie poster is rather interesting in that the gun compartment (in the nose) seems to burning rather merrily considering that there’s no fuel stored there and usually 30mm cannon rounds tend to explode rather than burn.