Guillermo del Toro on his cancelled Jabba the Hutt film
Guillermo del Toro on Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of Jabba the Hutt https://t.co/pq0shmx9pa pic.twitter.com/N7dNfMOSQ8
- io9 (@io9) October 8, 2023
Guillermo del Toro opened up a Star Wars project that he was working on for Lucasfilm before it fell through.
“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.”
He discussed the idea back in 2015 as something he would like to do; “I would do the sort of Godfather saga that Jabba the Hutt had to go through to gain control. One, because it’s the character that looks the most like me, and I like him. I love the idea of a Hutt type of mafia, a very complex coup. I just love the character.”