Tuskegee Airmen film will be animated musical
Last Updated: Friday, January 29, 2010 | 3:37 PM ET
CBC News
George Lucas is tackling his first musical, a film about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first group of African-American pilots.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lucas is working on the movie Red Tails at his Skywalker Ranch in California.
Plot details for the computer-animated film are not being released, but it is known that fairies play a role.
Lucas, who has not directed a movie since Revenge of the Sith, wrote the screenplay and is executive producing.
Kevin Munroe, who created the fourth Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, TMNT, is directing from a script by David Berenbaum, who wrote the children's fantasy The Spiderwick Chronicles.
The Tuskegee Airmen flew with distinction as bomber escorts during the Second World War at a time when the U.S. services were segregated. They were known as the Red Tails.
The film stars Terence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr. and rapper Method Man of Wu-Tang Clan and is scheduled for release in 2010.
