“What we do, how well we do it… Does it matter?”
Shoutout to the folks at The Young, Black, & Fabulous, who got dibs on an extended preview of George Lucas’s forthcoming Tuskegee Airmen-based biopic, Red Tails.
Look, I’ll pass on making my appeal to Black America especially to get out to theaters and support this movie, especially since most folks are already aware of how George Lucas struggled to get it to the big screen. The big-name cast, packed with everyone from Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding, Jr. to Nate Parker of The Great Debaters and Myles from Moesha Marcus T. Paulk, is certainly a drawing factor.
But the reality is, this extended clip/6-minute sneak preview of Red Tails should be all the motivation you need to go see it. Black audiences will delight in the idea of another Black history flick, while Lucas disciples will surely appreciate the gunfights, which are very much reminiscent of those from the original Star Wars films. Not to mention the message in this trailer has Cuba doing some his finest acting since Jerry Maguire, and we all know it’s been awhile (as far as I’m concerned, Daddy Day Camp never happened).
Check out the extended cut below, and get your ass out to theaters on January 20th.
RT Clip from Tambay Obenson on Vimeo.
