Guillermo del Toro's scrapped Star Wars movie was about Jabba the Hutt – but the director is totally cool with it being canceled
Oct. 9, 2023Del Toro’s Star Wars movie ended up being canned
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Guillermo del Tororecently shared that he was working on a Star Wars moviethat ended up scrapped – and the director has since revealed what exactly the movie was set to be about after an initial cryptic tease of the letters “J” and “BB.”
“We had the rise and fall of Jabba the Hutt, so I was super happy,” Guillermo said in a Q&A hosted byCollider.
But, the director also shared that he feels pretty much fine about the movie being scrapped. “We were doing a lot of stuff, and then it’s not my property, it’s not my money, and then it’s one of those 30 screenplays that goes away,” he added. “Sometimes I’m bitter, sometimes I’m not. I always turn to my team and say, ‘Good practice, guys. Good practice. We designed a great world. We designed great stuff. We learned.’ You can never be ungrateful with life. Whatever life sends you, there’s something to be learned from it. So, you know, I trust the universe, I do. When something doesn’t happen, I go, ‘Why?’ I try to have a dialogue with myself. ‘Why didn’t it happen?’ And the more you swim upstream with the universe, the less you’re gonna realize where you’re going.”
While del Toro didn’t reveal any additional details about the movie, it’s easy to speculate on what the film might have covered. Jabba was a crime lord onTatooine, home planet of both Anakin and Luke Skywalker, and had the likes of Han Solo and Boba Fett in his employ – until he was strangled to death by Princess Leia Organa, of course.
The Book of Boba Fettseems to have potentially covered similar ground to del Toro’s scrapped movie, considering that series followed Fett taking charge of criminal enterprises on Tatooine, ultimately becoming Daimyo of Mos Espa.
Next up on Star Wars' slate isDisney Plusshow Skeleton Crew, which doesn’t yet have a release date.Ahsoka, meanwhile, just wrapped up on the streamer – and for even more on that show, check out our deep dives on:
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