Digital aerial combat has come a long ways since “Red Tails” and “Flyboys,” judging by the trailer of this October release. “Midway” raised the CGI bar.
Those are F4U Corsairs, WWII vintage fighter-bombers, flying missions in the Korean War of WWII vintage U.S. aircraft carriers.
This true story is about a famed Navy combat duo, pilot-and-wingman, who happened to be of different races in what was a first for the U.S. military.
Powell’s one of the hunky young pilots of “Top Gun,” now in theaters, Majors was a star of “Lovecraft Country” and “The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Christian Jackson, Serinda Swan, Joseph Cross and Joe Jonas are also in the cast.