Guillermo del Toro Reveals Plans for Star Wars Movie

Guillermo del Toro’s list of cancelled projects is notorious. The director best known for Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, and The Shape of Water, was very nearly the director best known for The Hobbit, Halo, Thor, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. And now, we can add a Star Wars film to his ‘what ifs’.

During a Q&A presented by Collider, the filmmaker said he was working on a Star Wars project that focussed on Jabba the Hut, the slug-like crime lord from the planet Tatooine.

“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. I always turn to my team and say, ‘Good practice, guys. Good practice. We designed a great world. We designed great stuff. We learned."

The director partnered on the unnamed project with screenwriter David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), who actually wrote an unproduced Star Wars film for Guillermo Del Toro to direct.

Goyer revealed all on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “There was just a lot of behind [the scenes] stuff going on at Lucasfilm at the time. But it’s a cool script,” he said.