Guillermo del Toro confirms that his STAR WARS project revolved around Jabba the Hutt

Guillermo del Toro recently shared that he was once working on a Star Wars film project that he never managed to realize. He was working on that film with the screenwriter David S. Goyer (Lama, Foundation). The director offered a cryptic preview of what the film entailed by mentioning only the letters “J” and “BB”.

I initially thought this was the Jabba the Hutt gangster movie that Del Toro had talked about wanting to make several years ago, and in the end… that’s exactly what it was! During a Q&A with Collider, the director shared:

“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 scripts that just goes away. they go. “

Speaking about how he felt after the project was scrapped by Lucasfilm, he said:

“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 things. We learned.’ You can never be ungrateful towards life. Whatever life sends you, there’s something to learn from it. So, you know, I trust the universe, I do it. When something doesn’t happen, I say, ‘Why?’ I try to have a dialogue with myself: ‘Why didn’t this happen?’ And the more you swim against the tide of the universe, the less you realize where you’re going.”

While del Toro didn’t reveal any further details about the film during the Q&A, he talked about it years ago:

“I would do the kind of Godfather saga that Jabba the Hutt had to go through to gain control. First, because he is the character who is most similar to me and I like him. I love the idea of ​​a Hutt-type mafia, a very complex coup. I love the character.”

I would have loved to see Del Toro pull it off Star Wars movie. I bet it would have turned out great! But obviously it didn’t have to be this way.