RED TAILS ON TRACK TO BEING A HIT

Does George Lucas have another hit in his hands?
We shall soon see as it hits theaters today!

A project several decades in the making, Lucas has been vocal about the struggles he had making this film.

A passion project for producer George Lucas, who began development on the film over 20 years ago, "Red Tails" dramatizes the heroic efforts of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all African American aerial unit in the United States armed forces. As World War II rages overseas, the Pentagon calls upon the aviators of its experimental Tuskegee training program, led by Col. A.J. Bullard (Terrence Howard) and Major Emanuelle Stance (Cuba Gooding Jr.) , to help turn the tide. Having spent most of the war on the ground and fighting segregation, the young airmen are finally given the opportunity to defend their honor in battle.(Speakeasy)

Aside from its producer, Red Tails features an impressive list of names behind the scenes; the film's director is Anthony Hemingway (HBO's "The Wire") and Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder helped pen the script.

Producer Lucas, director Hemingway and his writers, John Ridley and "Boondocks" creator Aaron McGruder, aren't going for serious business here. As McGruder said in the film's promotional materials, "Red Tails" offers "a comic-book feel that only George Lucas could bring to a film." He added: "Before this, we didn't have our John Wayne, but we now have that kind of larger-than-life treatment, and the Tuskegee Airmen deserve it.

                                                         Check out the trailor for Red Tails