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 said during a Q&A hosted by Collider. He followed this up by saying that he always tells his team that they did a good job and created an incredible world and incredible things.

The director remains humble about the fact that his origin story of Jabba the Hutt never made it to the big screen.

Del Toro then noted people “‘can never be ungrateful with life,'” and “‘there’s something to be learned from it.'”

News of this spin-off was revealed a month ago by David S. Goyer, a screenwriter who worked with del Toro on the project.

Goyer revealed this news on the podcast hosted by Josh Horowitz, Happy Sad Confused.

“There was just a lot of behind [the scenes] stuff going on at Lucasfilm at the time,” Goyer recalled.

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Del Toro’s next upcoming film is an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel titled Frankenstein, with Andrew Garfield, Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth in the starring roles.