The Hutts Might Make an Appearance in STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
There’s still so much that we don’t know about J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens. A part of me wants to know as much as I can, while the other part doesn’t want to know anything at all. But today I’ve got a small piece of interesting news regarding the film that comes from out friends at Latino-Review.
According to the site, the Hutts will be in The Force Awakens. It obviously won’t be Jabba, but his alien race will in some way be included in the movie. The reports says that the Hutts will be brought to life using practical effects like in The Return of the Jedi. The report also explains how the Hutts might end up being in a future Star Wars standalone movie:
“I know there is more than one Hutt, but unsure how many exactly are going to show up. The process of constructing these Hutts began over a year ago, so you can imagine how my ears perked up when it was rumored that the Star Wars spin-off film would be ‘sharing assets’ with The Force Awakens, despite being in different time periods. Last time I speculated this would mostly be ships and interiors, but how hard can it be to re-dress a Hutt? Reaching out to a source, I was told: ‘I’m sure their existence could have factored in to them being included, or the expenditure was made because it was all coordinated.’ In other words: if JJ wanted expensive Hutts, it might have been okay since they could be used down the line.”
There’s no information on how these characters will be used in the movie, but there were very early concept art descriptions that featured Princess Leia meeting with the Hutts. That seems to make sense. After all, she is a powerful Galactic politician, and she is also the one who killed Jabba the Hutt while she was his slave. After all the years that have passed, I wonder if they are still pissed that Leia straight-up murdered Jabba.
As for the standalone Star Wars film, it’s believed that the Hutts will appear in Gareth Edwards’ movie, which is rumored to center around bounty hunters. We still have no confirmation of anything regarding these spin-off movies, though. Whatever the case may be, it will be interesting to see the Hutts make an appearance in the future Star Wars films. There's no official confirmation of this from the studio, so we'll treat it as a rumor for now.