In an appearance on The Daily Show last night, George Lucas said that he had trouble getting funding for his new movie, “Red Tails,” because of its black cast. . .
“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.
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You know, I was reading this through and got to the word “Tuskagee” and thought “gee, a movie about the dishonest and unethical medical experiments on black people, that would be extremely interesting, but I can’t see how Lucas would make a movie out of it, or how they could get away with not casting the doctors as major white roles, even they would be villains. I may be tempted to see a new movie for the first time in years”. Then I saw that it’s just another war film. Meh. The discrimination deserves a public note, but who gives a rip about another Lucas film? Even if it’s reasonably good, when it comes out on disc he’ll add white people with CGI or something. (Rimshot!)