Spike Lee & George Lucas discuss Red Tails NYC Premier Red Carpet

[BlackTree TV - NYC] BlackTree TV travels to NYC for the World Premier of Red Tails with a star studded carpet that included everybody but Beyonce and Baby Ivey. Our Entertainment Correspondent Chiderah Alisa talks to everyone from the cast of Red Tails to the Tuskegee Airmen themselves about the importance of this film.

WHO: From the film: Cuba Gooding Jr, Terrence Howard, Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Method Man, Tristan
Wilds, Ne-Yo, Michael B. Jordan, Elijah Kelly, Leslie Odom Jr, Kevin Phillips, Lee Tergesen, Andre
Royo, Marcus T. Paulk, Executive Producer George Lucas, Producer Rick McCallum, Producer
Charles Floyd Johnson, Director Anthony Hemingway, Screenwriter Aaron McGruder, Screenwriter
John Ridley, Soundtrack Terence Blanchard

Special guests: Members of the original Tuskegee Airmen unit -- Dr. Roscoe Brown, Roscoe
Draper, John Harrison, Samuel Henderson, Milton Holmes, Shade Lee, Bertram Levy, Charles
Lewis, Charles McGee, Dabney Montgomery, Henry Moore, Eugene Richardson, James Williams,
Theobald Wilson, Wilfred DeFour, Otis Foreman, Alton Burton and Robert Otis Merriweather.
Nancy Colon (first female African-American Flight Nurse in the U.S. Air Force)

Additional guests: Mellody Hobson, Wendi Murdoch, Al Roker and Deborah Roberts, Reverend
Al Sharpton, Angela Bassett, Francis Ford Coppola, Stephen Baldwin, Giancarlo Esposito,
Swizz Beats, Matt Stone, Nikki M. James, Philip Lewis, Spike Lee, Kareem McKenzie (NY Giants),
Rocsi Diaz, Tika Sumpter, Doug E. Fresh, Kimberly Locke, Monique Coleman, Marv Albert,
Antonio Cromartie (NY Jets)

George Lucas, who has created some of the most electrifying aerial battles in movie history, is now bringing to life
the stirring tale of the courageous black pilots of the Tuskegee program, unsung heroes who were our country's last
hope against a seemingly unbeatable enemy.

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• World Premier
• Ziegfield Theater
• George Lucas
• Spike Lee
• Nate Parker
• Terrence Howard
• Dr Roscoe Brown
• Tuskegee Airmen
• BlackTree
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[reginaldgrays]

@movesguy- Think about it for a second Spike Lee had a war movie just like this one a couple of years back with his own production called 40 acres and a muel, and now it takes a huge hollywood mogul like George Lucas who is also a franchise king next to Steven Spielburg, and he also has his own production Lucas Films, 20 years to make this film. And the president of hollywood hates Spike Lee more than Lucas, So something doesn't smell right.

[movesguy]

@reginaldgrays Now? He has been trying to make this move for over 20 years. And he had such a hard time trying to find a distributer that it is one more reason he hates Hollywood.

[calebtheactor]

@dtwhitney TELL ME ABOUT IT! i was thinking the same thing hoping someone else commented on it. Talk about over useeeed!!

[dtwhitney]

My gosh. The Garageband loops.

[reginaldgrays]

You know something its kind of strange that they decided to make the story about the Tuskegee Airmen in major theatre's now that masser LUCAS, has his percentage of the profits. The last movie about Tuskegee pilots was made on HBO. I'm thinking the only reason their bringing it out in theatres now because of the next war obviously.

[ahoodaat]

you mean to tell me that a movie with this many black men did not have not even one black woman. hmmm

[RevanGabriel]

what part is Spike Lee at?

[yaksmut]

People are forgetting the point of REDTAILS... It is a OLD SCHOOL HERO FLICK. There isn't supposed to be super deep characters because the main character is the GROUP. It is supposed to be up lifting. Most Black historical films leave me hating white people (some self hate there as I am part white), but this movie only focused on the Glory and the happier parts... I for one was happy, for once, after watching a black empowerment movie... I am SUPER grateful for the experience.

[MrCase22100]

BLACK PEOPLE AFTER YOU WATCH THIS MOVIE I WANT YOU TO SIGN YOUR KIDS UP TO FIGHT IN THESE UNJUST WAR'S THAT WE HAVING NOW.QUOTING HOLLYWOOD AND THEIR BS.I LOVE OUR BLACK HERO'S AND ACTOR'S BUT F THE BS.FEEL ME.I WILL GO SEE THE MOVIE BUT I NEVER SLEEP ON THE BS.PEACE!!!

[MrCase22100]

@MrRossT1 Yeah you right and i believe the same thing you said.People need to wake up and stop letting these devils use us for their BS.The timing is F up for this movie to come out while we in these Elite Corporation unjustb wars.SMDH I can go on and on all day about their BS.S/O to our black actor's though.It's just ashame they being pawns of the game.Peace!!!