George Lucas talks difficulty getting Hollywood backing for film Red Tails (Video)

Red Tails, one of the first action African American films premiered Friday Jan. 20th.

Earlier in the month, George Lucas stopped by The Daily Show to talk about the difficulty of the production of the film Red Tails, how long it took, and who he had in mind when creating the film.

George Lucas on Red Tails

“This has been held up for release since 1942 since it was shot, I’ve been trying to get released ever since,” Lucas quipped to Jon Stewart. “It’s because it’s an all-black movie. There’s no major white roles in it at all…I showed it to all of them and they said no. We don’t know how to market a movie like this.”

“Red Tails,” which stars Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Terrence Howard, is based on the Tuskegee Airmen, the group of pioneering black pilots who fought in the United States’ segregated armed forces during World War II. The movie is directed by Anthony Hemingway, the rare black director getting a chance to direct a big-budget feature.

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Source: Huffington Post