Film director George Lucas said he is to retire from commercial film making and his blockbuster "Red Tails" which Premieres this Friday, will be the last of its kind, according to an interview with the New York Times.

"I'm retiring," Lucas said. "I'm moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff," he says in an interview related to Friday's U.S. premiere of the Action Drama film that tells the story of a crew of African American pilots in World War II.

Lucas put $58 million out of his own pocket to make the film because major film studios will not back the movie given that there were no major roles of white people at all, he told The Daily Show.

Lucas said the companies didn't believe there was "any foreign market for it." And that represents 60 percent of their profit.

The movie features Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr, Terence Howard and R&B star Ne-Yo.

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