"23 years. We finished it, financed it myself, and I figured, you know, I could get prints and ads paid for by the studios, and that they would release it. I showed it to all of them and they said ‘No. we don’t know how to market a movie like this.’ …It’s because it’s an all-black movie. There’s no major white roles in it at all. It’s one of the first all-black action pictures ever made."
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Red Tails executive producer GEORGE LUCAS, on why it took more than two decades for his latest film to hit movie theatres.
For shame, Hollywood.
(via inothernews)
Definitely seeing this in theatres instead of downloading like I usually do. I gotta support projects like this. Plus it actually looks good.
