“Red Tails” may have had one of the longest gestation periods of any Hollywood film, considering that its producer is legendary Hollywood filmmaker George Lucas, who brought the world the iconic “Star Wars” saga. Still, Lucas told USA Today that it took him 23 years and $58 million of his own money to get “Red Tails” made.
Part of the delay was competing versions. The Tuskegee Airmen story has been told in two film productions already – one in 1995 on HBO, with Larry Fishburne and “Red Tails” star Cuba Gooding, Jr., and partially in 2002’s “Hart’s War,” starring Colin Farrell and Terence Howard, who is in the cast of “Red Tails” as well. But a major part of the long time it took to get made was Hollywood’s inability to see that there was any audience for the movie.
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