Guillermo del Toro Confirms He Was Engaged on a Now-Scrapped ‘Star Wars’ Film About Jabba the Hutt

Guillermo del Toro‘s Jabba the Hutt?

Sure, it might have occurred.

The filmmaker confirmed throughout a Q&A offered by Collider that he was at one time engaged on a Star Wars film that will heart on the infamous crime lord, who lived on the planet Tatooine (the place Luke Skywalker was raised, and his father earlier than him). Del Toro was engaged on the challenge with screenwriter David S. Goyer, who first teased the information final month on the Blissful, Unhappy, Confused podcast.

“There was simply lots of behind [the scenes] stuff occurring at Lucasfilm on the time,” Goyer stated on the podcast. “But it surely’s a cool script.”

In response, Del Toro tweeted on the time: “True. Can’t say a lot. Possibly two letters ‘J’ and ‘BB’ is that three letters?”

Now, Del Toro has confirmed that the challenge did, actually, revolve round Jabba.

“We had the rise and fall of Jabba the Hutt, so I used to be tremendous joyful,” he stated in the course of the latest Collider occasion. “We have been doing lots of stuff, after which it’s not my property, it’s not my cash, after which it’s a kind of 30 screenplays that goes away. Typically I’m bitter, typically I’m not. I all the time flip to my group and say, ‘Good observe, guys. Good observe. We designed an amazing world. We designed nice stuff. We discovered.’”

However, alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Lucasfilm didn’t transfer ahead with the challenge. Del Toro, although, has no laborious emotions.

“You’ll be able to by no means be ungrateful with life,” he stated. “No matter life sends you, there’s one thing to be discovered from it. So, , I belief the universe, I do. When one thing doesn’t occur, I am going, ‘Why?’ I attempt to have a dialogue with myself. ‘Why didn’t it occur?’ And the extra you swim upstream with the universe, the much less you’re gonna notice the place you’re going.”

Whereas it’s unclear precisely how way back Del Toro and Goyer have been engaged on the challenge, not getting an opportunity to direct a Star Wars film clearly hasn’t hindered Del Toro’s profession: He’s received three Oscars, two for The Form of Water (greatest image and greatest director) and one for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (greatest animated function). For his half, Goyer has been concerned with quite a few superhero movies, together with The Darkish Knight and The Darkish Knight Rises, Man of Metal and Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice together with Terminator: Darkish Destiny.

Jabba, in the meantime, has appeared in a number of Star Wars motion pictures and on TV. He was first launched in 1983’s Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi. He additionally was later added to Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope when the movie was rereleased for its twentieth anniversary in 1997, through a beforehand unfinished scene. The character appeared once more in 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

Jabba is also a key a part of the storyline for the animated movie Star Wars: The Clone Wars and seems in a number of episodes of the TV sequence that adopted.