Guillermo del Toro to produce Star Wars movie about Jabba the Hutt – The Hollywood Reporter

Guillermo del Toro’s Jabba the Hutt?

Yes, that may have happened.

The filmmaker made the admission in the following Q&A. collider he was once working on something Star Wars The movie centers around the infamous crime lord who lived on the planet Tatooine (where Luke Skywalker grew up and his father before that). Del Toro is working on the project with screenwriter David S. Goyer, who first teased the news last month. happy, sad, confused Podcast.

“There was a lot behind it.” [the scenes] What was going on at Lucasfilm at the time,” Goyer said on the podcast. “But it’s a great script.”

Del Toro, on the other hand, tweeted At that time, I said, “That’s right. I can’t say much. Maybe the two letters ‘J’ and ‘BB’ are the three letters?”

Del Toro confirmed that the project did indeed revolve around Jabba.

“I was very happy because I saw the rise and fall of Jabba the Hutt,” he said at a recent press conference. collider event. “We were doing a lot of work, but it’s not my property, it’s not my money, and it’s one of 30 scripts that’s gone. There are times when it’s bitter,” he said. Sometimes it’s not. I always say to the team, “Good practice, guys.” Good practice. We designed a wonderful world. We designed something amazing. we learned. ‘”

But unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be. Lucasfilm did not move forward with the project. But del Toro has no hard feelings.

“You can never forget to be grateful for life,” he said. “No matter what life is like, there’s something to be learned from it. So I trust the universe. When something doesn’t happen, I think, ‘Why?’ I try to have a dialogue with myself. “Why didn’t that happen?” And the more you swim upstream with the universe, the less you know where you’re going. ”

It’s unclear exactly how long del Toro and Goyer had been working on the project, but they never got the chance to direct it. Star Wars It’s clear that this movie hasn’t hindered del Toro’s career. He has won his three Oscars, two of which have been at the Academy Awards. water shape (Best Picture and Best Director) and 1 Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” (Best Animated Work). Mr. Goyer has worked on numerous superhero films, including; dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice with Terminator: Dark Fate.

Meanwhile, Jabba has appeared in several productions Star Wars Movies and TV.He was first introduced in 1983 Star Wars Episode VI – Return of the Jedi. He was also added later Star Wars Episode IV — A New Hope The film was re-released with unfinished scenes in 1997 to celebrate its 20th anniversary.This character reappeared in 1999 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

Jabba is also an important part of the animated movie storyline Star Wars: The Clone Wars It appears in several episodes of subsequent television series.