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

Guillermo del Toro’s Jabba the Hutt?

Yes, it could have happened.

The filmmaker confirmed during a question and answer session presented by Collider that he was once working on one Star Wars film that would focus on the infamous crime lord, who lived on the planet Tatooine (where Luke Skywalker grew up, and his father before him). Del Toro worked on the project with screenwriter David S. Goyer, who worked first teased last month’s news on the Happy, sad, confused podcast.

“There were a lot of things going on behind the scenes at Lucasfilm at the time,” Goyer said on the podcast. “But it’s a cool script.”

In response, Del Toro tweeted at the time: “That’s true. I can’t say much. Maybe two letters ‘J’ and ‘BB’ are three letters?’

Now, Del Toro has confirmed that the project was indeed about Jabba.

“We had the rise and fall of Jabba the Hutt, so I was super happy,” he said during the recent one Collider event. “We’ve done a lot of things, and then it’s not my property, it’s not my money, and then it’s one of those 30 scenarios that goes away. Sometimes I’m bitter, sometimes not. I always turn to my team and say, ‘Good job, guys. Good practice. We have designed an amazing world. We’ve designed great things. We learned.’”

But alas, it was not to be. Lucasfilm did not proceed with the project. Del Toro, however, has no hard feelings.

“You can never be ungrateful in life,” he said. “No matter what life throws at you, you can learn something from it. So you know, I trust the universe, I do. If something isn’t happening, I ask, “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 realize where you are going.”

While it’s unclear exactly how long ago Del Toro and Goyer worked on the project, they didn’t get a chance to direct a film. Star Wars The film clearly didn’t hinder del Toro’s career: he won three Oscars, two ahead The shape of water (best film and best director) and one for Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro (best animated film). For his part, Goyer has been involved in numerous superhero films, including The Dark Knight And The Dark Knight Rises, Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice together with Terminator: Dark fate.

Jabba has since appeared in several films Star Wars movies and on TV. It 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 when the film was re-released for its twentieth anniversary in 1997, via a previously unfinished scene. The character appeared again in 1999 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

Jabba is also an important part of the animated film’s storyline Star Wars: The Clone Wars and appears in several episodes of the TV series that followed.