Recently, we learned that Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro was working on a Star Wars movie years ago with David S. Goyer penning the screenplay. Just like some of the franchise's feature projects, it ended up being canned by Lucasfilm during its development.
The news caught a lot of fans surprised and disappointed at the same time due to the missed opportunity of having one of the best visionary filmmakers today make a movie set in the galaxy far, far away.
It is now also one of the many unrealized del Toro projects that is now added to the pile and it is unlikely that it will ever be revisited anytime soon since he is now more focused on other projects.
A lot of fans are wondering what del Toro's Star Wars movie would have been about and why it didn't end up happening. Now, he finally broke his silence and opened up about the fate of the unrealized project.
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Guillermo del Toro's Star Wars Movie Would Have Focused on Jabba the Hutt
Speaking with Collider, del Toro revealed that his canned Star Wars movie would have centered on the rise and fall of Tatooine crime lord Jabba the Hutt.
He also opened up about what he actually felt about the project's cancellation after all these years and what he learned from working with Lucasfilm.
"We had the rise and fall of Jabba the Hutt, so I was super happy. 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. Sometimes I'm bitter, sometimes I'm not," del Toro said.
"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."
The Oscar winner continued, "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 has moved on from the unfortunate fate of his Star Wars movie, you can tell that he still has a slight disappointment deep inside since he is a fan of the franchise and was passionate about the project.
However, the bright side is the experience that he got from developing a project for a major property and working with Lucasfilm, which has become notorious for developing a lot of Star Wars projects that ended up getting canned or indefinitely delayed.
A Jabba the Hutt movie would have been very interesting since there's a lot that you can tell from his life as a crime lord as we've seen in the Expanded Universe (EU) novels and The Clone Wars. For now, all we can do is pontificate on what a missed opportunity this all was.
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