Guillermo Del Toro Reveals He Had A Jabba The Hutt ‘Star Wars’ Spin-Off In The Works
Guillermo del Toro, the Mexican filmmaker and author known for winning three Academy Awards for the films, The Shape of Water and Pinocchio, revealed he was working on a Star Wars spin-off film that never got greenlit. Del Toro’s spin-off centered around one of the franchise’s primary antagonists, the crime lord Jabba the Hutt. The iconic director wanted the film’s story to have a style similar to Francis Ford Coppola‘s The Godfather while focusing on Jabba becoming powerful through unorthodox methods. Del Toro admitted that his project became “‘one of those 30 screenplays that goes away,'” he...