January 11, 2012 (New York City)
January 20, 2012 (United States)
Red Tails is a 2012 American war film directed by Anthony Hemingway in his feature film directorial debut, and starring Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr. The film is about the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African-American United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) servicemen during World War II. The characters in the film are fictional, although based on real individuals. The film was produced by Lucasfilm and released by 20th Century Fox, and would be the last film Lucasfilm releases before being purchased by The Walt Disney Company nine months later. This was Cuba Gooding Jr.'s first theatrically released film in five years since his starring role in 2007's Daddy Day Camp.
John Ridley wrote the screenplay. Additional material was shot the following year with executive producer George Lucas as director and Aaron McGruder as writer of the reshoots. It was filmed in March and July 2009. Red Tails was a personal project for Lucas, one that he had originally conceived in 1988. It is the first Lucasfilm production since the 1994 film Radioland Murders that is not associated with the Indiana Jones or Star Wars franchises. Terrence Howard had a Tuskegee pilot previously portrayed in Hart's War, and Cuba Gooding Jr. had previously starred in The Tuskegee Airmen, an HBO made-for-television film about the same group of pilots; he also played in Pearl Harbor, a World War II film also involved with .
Skywalker Sound provided the Post Production Sound Services: Ben Burtt is the Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor; Supervising Sound Editor Matthew Wood and Effects & Foley Re-Recording Mixer/uncredited Sound Designer David Acord served as uncredited sound effects recordists for the P-51s in the film. Dustin Cawood and Larry Oatfield are the Sound Effects Editors; Coya Elliott is the Assistant Supervising Sound Editor, and Jeremy Bowker is the Assistant Sound Editor. Dennie Thorpe and Jana Vance are the Foley Artists; Sean England is the Foley Recordist, and Kevin Sellers is the Foley Editor. Red Tails is the first film to be mixed in Barco & Auro Technologies' 11.1 Auro 3D Sound format.
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Sound Effects Used
- H-B EXPLOSION - LARGE EXPLOSION 07
- Gene Deitch Ricco/RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 26
- Hollywoodedge, Car Crash Small Metal PE112101
- Looney Tunes Cartoon Fall Sound (These sounds or a sound similar to these are used for some bombshells dropping.)
- Looney Tunes Explosion Sound 03
- SKYWALKER, AIRPLANE - AIRPLANE FAST PASS BY 01
- SKYWALKER, AIRPLANE - BIPLANE PASS BY
- SKYWALKER, AIRPLANE - DOGFIGHT, WWII AIRCRAFT, GUNFIRE
- SKYWALKER, AIRPLANE - PROP PLANE POWER DIVE SCREAM (1st half)
- SKYWALKER, AIRPLANE - STUKA SIREN SCREAM BY, SHORT
- SKYWALKER, ALARM - KLAXON "AHOOGA" (processed)
- SKYWALKER, BULLET - BULLET STRIKING THROUGH GLASS WITH WHINE
- SKYWALKER, BULLET - CANNON BLAST AND CANNONBALL WHOOSH, GUN (blast part only.)
- SKYWALKER, BULLET - RICOCHET WHIZZING BY 01
- SKYWALKER, CRACK - VINYL CRACKLING
- SKYWALKER, ENGINE - SHUTTING DOWN
- SKYWALKER EXPLOSION 01
- SKYWALKER EXPLOSION 07
- SKYWALKER, EXPLOSION - AT-AT STOMP
- SKYWALKER, EXPLOSION - BIG CRUNCH
- SKYWALKER, EXPLOSION - CRASHED METAL SQUEAKING ACCENT
- SKYWALKER, EXPLOSION - EVE'S LASER GUN BULLET EXPLOSION (Heard in a high pitch when some German planes get shot down)
- SKYWALKER, EXPLOSION - MASSIVE EXPLOSION, LOUD, HYPER-REALISTIC
- SKYWALKER, EXPLOSION - MASSIVE INFERNO ROARING
- SKYWALKER, EXPLOSION - SMALL EXPLOSION
- SKYWALKER GLASS KNOCKING SOUND
- SKYWALKER, GUN - GATLING GUN FIRE
- SKYWALKER, GUN - MG-42 MACHINE GUN SOUNDS
- SKYWALKER, HISS - MECHANICAL EJECT HISS
- SKYWALKER, HUMAN - YELL, LONG, MALE 01
- SKYWALKER, JET - ARTOO'S ROCKET THRUSTERS
- SKYWALKER, METAL - BIG VEHICLE CRASH
- SKYWALKER, PROJECTOR - FILM PROJECTOR: START, RUN, STOP
- SKYWALKER ROARING HORSE WHINNY
- SKYWALKER, SCI-FI GUN - ION CANNON GUN
- SKYWALKER, SIREN - STUKA SIREN WHOOP
- SKYWALKER, TELEPHONE - ANTIQUE TELEPHONE RINGING
- SKYWALKER WHISTLING RICOCHET, EXPLOSION ACCENT (chorus variant)
- SKYWALKER, WHISTLE - CARTOON FALL WHISTLE
- SKYWALKER, WHISTLE - DESCENDING WHISTLE 01
- SKYWALKER, WHISTLE - FIREWORK WHISTLE (Used for most bombshells dropping.)
- SKYWALKER, WHISTLE - MORTAR WHINES (A time-stretched version is heard once during bombshells dropping.)
- SKYWALKER, WIND - REACTOR SHAFT EXPLOSION, WIND, WEATHER
- SoundDogs, Guns Military, Battles - Small - Unusual Explosions - Use For Land Mines, Phosphorus Bombs Or Electrical Explosions.
- Sound Ideas, AIRPLANE, JET - ATOM ANT JET BY (Maybe heard once when German fighters pass by the camera, otherwise confused with SKYWALKER, AIRPLANE - STUKA SIREN SCREAM BY, SHORT.)
- Sound Ideas, AIRPLANE, SINGLE PROP - TBF: EXT: POWER DIVE
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, AIRPLANE - PROP PLANE POWER DIVE SCREAM (normal, extended and time-stretched/higher-pitched edits)
- Sound Ideas, EXPLOSION - HOWITZER EXPLOSION (or various HB/Universal explosions in a deeper pitch?)
- Sound Ideas, EXPLOSION - LARGE EXPLOSION 03 (Series 6000)
- Sound Ideas, Explosions - Missile fires . . . long take off . . . explosion and echo
- Sound Ideas, METAL, DROP - STEEL GIRDIR FALLING ON CONCRETE, REVERBERANT ROOM 01
- Sound Ideas, PROJECTOR, FILM - 16 MM PROJECTOR: START, RUN, STOP, MOVIE
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, STEAM - EXTERNAL: APPROACH, PASS BY LEFT TO RIGHT, FAST SPEED
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, STEAM - STEAM TRAIN: ON BOARD ENGINE: STEADY, HEAVY CHUGGING
- TECHNICOLOR EXPLOSION 01
- Warner Bros. Thunder 01 (higher pitched)
- WB CARTOON, AIRPLANE - JET: PASS BY 02
- WB CARTOON, AIRPLANE - PROP PLANE POWER DIVE SCREAM, LONG (1st half; higher pitched)
- WB SIREN - STUKA SIREN HOWL (Used incorrectly on US bombers, German planes, P-51s, and even the Nazi jets.)