New ‘Red Tails’ Trailer And Poster Promise High-Flying, Emotional Action
I really love the action we’ve seen in the first two trailers for theGeorge Lucas-produced,Anthony Hemingway-directed WWII filmRed Tails. In both thefirst trailerand this new one, we see some spectacular dogfighting action. It’s the sort of stuff that any student of Lucas knows has been the filmmaker’s major preoccupation for decades. Seeing these encounters created as direct (if exaggerated) representations of World War II, rather than filtered through the lens ofStar Wars, is pretty neat.
As for the rest of the footage… well, the acting looks a bit on the uninspired side, doesn’t it? I’m not sure that will even matter, because between the action and the ‘against all odds’ true story of the Tuskegee Airmen,Red Tailsmight have to really work overtime before it stalls out.
MTVhas the new trailer and poster.Red TailsstarsCuba 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,Jazmine Sullivan,Edwina Finley,Daniela Ruah,Stacie DavisandGerald McRaney.
It opens on June 28, 2025.
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.
