Who has George Lucas cast for his upcoming film production about Tuskegee Airmen?
The next movie endeavor for George Lucas will be his first non-Star Wars/Indiana Jones film since The Radioland Murders, which, it should be duly nuted, is a tornado of mediocrity. That movie is Red Tails, a chronicle of the Tuskegee Airmen during the second world war. Lucas has written the story, and it has been turned over to John Ridley to make it into a workable screenplay for director Anythony Hemingway (The Wire). Roger Friedman at Fox says that Lucas has his eye on several actors for the film, including Terence Howard, NeYo, Nate Parker, Barry Pepper, and Bryan Cranston, among others. One peculiar note about the cast: Friedman says that a couple African American actors who would make great additions, like Derek Luke, won’t be pursued because of their recent appearances in Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna. I think that’s rather silly; it’d be like Robert DeNiro not playing a cop. If your part calls for Derek Luke, go get it Derek Luke. Also, nobody saw Miracle at St. Anna, so putt
