Guillermo del Toro Once Compared His Jabba The Hutt STAR WARS Movie to SCARFACE

Guillermo del Toro recently confirmed that the Star Wars project he was developing for Lucasfilm was going to focus on Jabba The Hutt. He was developing that project with David S. Goyer, and a past interview has resurfaced where the director shared his concept for the movie and compared it to Scarface.

Back in 2015, he told the Happy Sad Confused:

"When I spoke to them, when I spoke to [Lucasfilm’s] John Knoll about it, and I said, if I ever do [a 'Star Wars' film], I would love to do Jabba the Hutt’s Scarface. You know? His ascension in the crime family. But it’s not a plan, I’m not announcing anything, don’t pick it up [as a thing]."

The filmmaker went on to say:

"I like monsters. I just love monsters, and Jabba is a) basically my same shirt size, and b) I love him, man. I feel strangely more and more inclined to do more strange stuff; do things that are a little more cagey, a little more quirky, so I dunno."

It’s kind of a shame that Del Toro’s Jabba The Hutt film never came to fruition. I would’ve liked to see him get to tell his Jabba story. He also previously compared the film to The Godfather, saying:

“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.”

When recently talking about the Jabba Star Wars project, the filmmaker said:

"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 then talked about how he felt after the project was scrapped by Lucasfilm, saying:

"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.' You can never be ungrateful with life. Whatever life sends you, there's something to be learned from it. So, you know, I trust the universe, I do. When something doesn't happen, I go, 'Why?' I try to have a dialogue with myself. 'Why didn’t it happen?' And the more you swim upstream with the universe, the less you're gonna realize where you're going."

I think Lucasfilm missed out on something special by not moving forward with Del Toro’s Jabba project. I think he would have made a great Star Wars movie.