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Did you know the Movie “Red Tails” was completely private funded 100% by the amazing Mr George Lucas?
George shopped the story around to every movie production studio, and not a single Studio was willing to produce this film.
At a premiere of his film, and again on "The Daily Show," Lucas has said he financed the movie himself because Hollywood doesn't want to finance expensive movies with all-black casts. "They don't believe there's any foreign market for it, and that's 60 percent of their profit," he told "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart. "I showed it to all of them, and they said, 'No. We don't know how to market a movie like this.' " He also made an oblique reference to the aerial combat footage: "This is as close as you'll get to ["Star Wars"] Episode VII."
True enough, no doubt. But Lucas begs the question: Did this have to be an expensive movie? Was the purpose to make a blockbuster, or to make a statement? I imagined a film that contained more history and drama — and that was angrier.
Another World War II story, featuring a storyline driven by a Black cast is Mr Spike Lee’s “Miracle at Santa Anna”
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Lucas is the real deal. Let's put the movies aside (IMO the prequels are vastly superior to the sequels but that's another debate)...
My favorite Lucas story is that he wanted to put a massive production studio on his property in California. But his neighbors (rich, white, conservative... real fun group) pitched such a fit that he had to abandon the project.
So how did Lucas retaliate? He decided to build over 200 units for low-income housing. It would be a massive center with a pool, rec center, farm etc. The whole project cost about 200 million, which Lucas paid for himself.
“We have enough housing for millionaires here,” Lucas said. “We need some housing for regular working people.”
Gotta be the most beautiful, generous, and badass form of revenge I've ever seen. God bless ya, sir.