Guillermo del Toro called his cancelled Jabba film ‘SCARFACE’ in the Star Wars universe

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Guillermo del Toro called his cancelled Jabba film ‘SCARFACE’ in the Star Wars universe.

Guillermo del Toro describes his cancelled Jabba film as ‘SCARFACE’ in the Star Wars universe.

“I just love monsters, and Jabba is a) basically my same shirt size, and b) I love him, man.”

Speaking to the Happy Sad Confused podcast, del Toro has gone into a little more detail about his idea for a Jabba the Hutt movie – which would presumably have been part of Lucasfilm’s canceled anthologies project. “I would love to do a Jabba the Hutt Scarface, his ascension in the crime family,” he explained. “I just love monsters, and Jabba is a) basically my same shirt size, and b) I love him, man.”

Lucasfilm’s anthology projects were intended as spinoffs that would add to the stories of the movies. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was a tremendous success, but the critical and box office failure of Solo: A Star Wars Story meant the whole range was canceled. Lucasfilm has since repurposed some for Disney+ TV shows, but it doesn’t seem likely they will do this with the Jabba pitch. Although some spinoffs sound as though they may yet return to the big screen – there has been positive news about Lando of late – this doesn’t currently seem to be a project Lucasfilm is interested in.

Speaking to Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast in 2015, del Toro talked about his scrapped Star Wars movie. He described his Jabba the Hutt movie as the Scarface of Star Wars.

“I just love monsters, and Jabba is a.) basically my same shirt size, and b.) I love him, man,” del Toro confessed. In a resurfaced interview, Guillermo del Toro spoke about his scrapped Star Wars movie. The movie would’ve revolved around the Jabba the Hutt character and has been compared, tonally, to Al Pacino and Brian De Palma’s Scarface. Scarface was originally a 1932 film based on the 1929 novel of the same name. In Brian De Palma’s Al Pacino-led adaptation, the Godfather actor played Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee. The film chronicles his time in the Miami crime world as he becomes a powerful drug lord. Michelle Pfieffer, Steven Bauer, and F. Murray Abraham also star in the film.