Guillermo del Toro was set around “four years ago” to direct a Star Wars movie that has never come together, screenwriter David S.
Goyer has revealed. Goyer divulged the news during a recent appearance on the podcast Happy Sad Confused hosted by Josh Horowitz, sharing that he “wrote an unproduced Star Wars movie that Guillermo del Toro was going to direct.” When asked why the project never took off, the scribe explained: “There was just a lot of behind[-the-scenes] stuff going on at Lucasfilm at the time, but it’s a cool script … There’s a lot of cool artwork from it that was produced.” Del Toro chimed in via Twitter fairly quickly to affirm Goyer’s account of events. “True.
Can’t say much. Maybe two letters “J” and “BB” is that three letters?” he teased, presumably alluding to the characters Jabba the Hutt and BB-8.
Goyer also shared during his recent podcast appearance that he wrote a scriptment for an “Origins of the Jedi movie,” set 25,000 years before the events of the franchise as we currently know it.
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