George Lucas has found a director for his long talked about fighter pilot movie. Red Tails is the story of the Tuskegee Airmen overcoming racism in World War II to become the first black fighter pilots in American history. At one point Lucas was actually rumored to be considering Samuel L. Jackson to direct it. Instead Variety says he’s hired Anthony Hemingway.

Hemingway’s directorial career has been spent entirely on television, behind episodes of shows like CSI, ER, and Battlestar Galactica. He only did one episode of BSG, but perhaps that gives him at least a little experience dealing with fighter pilots, of a sort. Whether it’s in outer space shooting robots or flying through cumulous clouds on Earth to shoot Nazis, fighter pilots are all the same amped up adrenaline junkies.

The movie’s title comes from the paint job on the planes of the Tuskegee Airmen. Their aircraft all had red tails. Here’s a question: If you’re a pilot, wouldn’t you want to pain your plane, oh I don’t know, cloud colored? It seems kind of obvious. Paint a couple of barn swallows in flight on the bottom of your plane, not a hpt pink, half-naked woman. You’re sort of asking to get a machine gun blast up your ass. Why did it take us so long to figure that out?