Lucas' Red Tails — Page 6

^^Im happy those pilots were happy with the film.  I saw the movie Fri and thought it was okay.  I thought the airmen deserved more, and certainly deserved to have a quality filmaker tell the story instead. 

McCallum: I know, but I understand that completely. It’s just a question I can’t answer. Obviously I have my own personally feelings, I hope that he does it, but I don’t have major arguments with him about it. I think that’s a decision he has to come to on his own as time comes by.

This puts Rick McCallum in a whole new light for me. How long has he been biting his tongue at Lucasfilm?

I would think most Lucasfilm employees do bite their tongues on this.

Working for George is probably a great gig 99 percent of the time. ;)

captainsolo said:

Mielr said:

I'm actually looking forward to Mark Hamill's new film, more than this one* (*meaning, I'm actually not looking forward to this one at all). ;-)

I hope at least Hamill's film gets a theatrical release and doesn't go straight-to-
video. :-/

<a href="http://www.sushigirlmovie.com/" target="_blank" title="www.sushigirlmovie.com/">http://www.sushigirlmovie.com/</a>

I don't care anything about Red Tails, but what the heck is that? It looks weird in a bad sort of modern low budget sorta way, but Mark looks like he gets to ham it up so I'm in. (and that hair?) Plus the trailer has one of the best songs ever so...it can't that bad can it?

timdiggerm said:

Rick McCallum said:

I hope that he does it, but I don’t have major arguments with him about it. I think that’s a decision he has to come to on his own as time comes by.

Wowzers.

Very interesting! I totally did not know they were related.

Mielr said:

I always forget he's David McCallum's son and Michael York's step-son. Wierd.

Where did you get that from?

According to IMDB, David McCallum "has a daughter, Sophie, and son, Peter, from his marriage to Katherine Carpenter. Jill Ireland and he had three children, Paul McCallum, Valentine McCallum, and an adopted son, Jason, who died on 7th November 1989 from an accidental drug overdose."

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=redtails.htm

$20 million? That's not bad. Part of me wants it to fail because its just more Lucas schlock, but they played the racism card and that makes me want it to succeed, as BS as the card is in this case (I'm sure no one wanted to distribute the movie because its not very good, not because its a mostly black cast).

Bester said:

Mielr said:

I always forget he's David McCallum's son and Michael York's step-son. Wierd.

Where did you get that from?

According to IMDB, David McCallum "has a daughter, Sophie, and son, Peter, from his marriage to Katherine Carpenter. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0409866/"><span style="color: #136cb2;">Jill Ireland</span></a> and he had three children, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0564764/"><span style="color: #136cb2;">Paul McCallum</span></a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0564777/"><span style="color: #136cb2;">Valentine McCallum</span></a>, and an adopted son, Jason, who died on 7th November 1989 from an accidental drug overdose."