The volume of unmade “Star Wars” projects keeps growing as we’ve now learned of TWO other films that had been in development by screenwriter David S. Goyer (“Blade,” “Batman Begins”). The longtime comic book film writer has now dished to the Happy Sad Confused podcast (See video below) that he not only was involved with a “Star Wars” film for Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water”) “four years ago” but also another film that would have explored the origins of the Jedi set 25,000 years before the events of the original film from 1977.
The latter movie sounds a lot like what the “Game of Thrones” showrunners D.B Weiss and David Benioff had been reportedly developing at Lucasfilm before their own exit and what currently writer/director James Mangold (“Logan”) is trying to put together with his own take on the early days of The Force/Jedi.
Goyer and del Toro had previously worked together on the first big Marvel Comics sequel, “Blade II.”
There was once a time when del Toro had mused in an interview with Yahoo! back in 2015 about potentially tackling a Jabba The Hutt movie comparing it to a gangster film within the “Star Wars” universe by citing the “Godfather” saga as his inspiration.
“I would do the sort of ‘Godfather’ saga that Jabba the Hutt had to go through to gain control,” he said. “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.”
However, given the poor reception of “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” gestating plans for other spinoff films that had been in the works such as Kenobi and Boba Fett feature films were scrapped. Later on, they were both resurrected as Disney+ miniseries. It’s possible whatever del Toro/Goyer was cooking up ultimately got shelved when the studio decided to focus on their streaming series.
UPDATE: Guillermo has confirmed on Twitter that it was indeed his Jabba project.
I’m not exactly sure what Lucasfilm was thinking by turning down a Jabba film from a recent Oscar-winning filmmaker, but you have to imagine that now with this information out in the wild people are going to be questioning that choice on the stuido’s part.
You can watch/listen to that exchange below.
SOURCE: HAPPY SAD CONFUSED
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