Guillermo Del Toro disappointed fans when he officially admitted there wouldn’t be another Hellboy project anytime soon. However, his supporters will be very happy to know that Del Toro is dabbling with the idea of doing a Star Wars spinoff movie. In fact, he’s doing more than dabble. In a new interview with Collider, Toro reveals not only that he’s got an ideas for a Star Wars spin-off movie, but that he’s met with Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy and John Knoll about said ideas.
Before del Toro’s prefaced his response with this:
In 2006, Mike Fleming at Deadline wrote an article that said ‘Guillermo del Toro is busy until 2012′ and he published 20 things I was maybe doing. Since then I haven’t been able to live down that. Every time I say ‘good morning’ somebody says ‘Guillermo is doing Good Morning!’, so I will not comment on this…I look like a kook. Neil Gaiman once said, ‘I would like to write Doctor Strange with Guillermo’ then all of a sudden in IMDb I had Doctor Strange (listed).”
He then goes on to say:
Saying all that caveat, I will say there’s some characters that are great, and I have talked to Kathleen Kennedy and John Knoll about ideas.
Then when asked about how he’d envision a movie, this is what del Toro said:
“I would do the sort of Godfather saga the 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, you know? … I just love the character.”
While the idea of putting Godfather and Jabba the Hutt in the same sentence seems a little strange, I think there would be a ton of interest from fans and studios in a Jaba the Hutt backstory. What was he like in his younger days?
Obviously there’s no way of knowing if anything will ever come of this but it’s still pretty fun to talk about.
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