The historical past of Star Wars films up to now few years has mainly been the historical past of stuff that by no means obtained made. The final produced and launched Star Wars movie was Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in late 2019. In practically 4 years since, there was a number of improvement of quite a few initiatives at Lucasfilm however nothing that has come near completion — and apparently there have even been initiatives developed and deserted that we’ve by no means even heard about.
For instance: Screenwriter David S. Goyer — the person behind the scripts for Blade and Christopher Nolan’s Darkish Knight trilogy — simply revealed on the Completely happy Unhappy Confused podcast that he wrote a Star Wars film that was going to be directed by Guillermo del Toro.
“I wrote an unproduced Star Wars film that Guillermo del Toro was going to direct,” Goyer mentioned. “It was about 4 years in the past. I additionally wrote an unproduced scriptment for an origins of the Jedi film, additionally for Star Wars, that I wrote for them that occurred 25,000 years earlier than the primary Star Wars movie.”
Del Toro himself later confirmed the revelation on Twitter, writing “True. Can’t say a lot. Possibly two letters “J” and “BB” is that three letter?” (Dummy me has no thought what he’s hinting at there. Possibly BB as in BB-8?)
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Goyer and del Toro beforehand labored collectively on Blade II, so the considered a Star Wars film from that mixture is extraordinarily attractive.
As to why such a seemingly surefire winner of a undertaking didn’t occur, Goyer instructed host Josh Horowitz, “there was a number of behind the scenes stuff happening at Lucasfilm on the time. But it surely’s a cool script.”
“Dabbling in Star Wars would have been enjoyable for me,” Goyer added. Most likely would have been enjoyable to observe too! Alas. It’s nonetheless not solely clear what the subsequent Star Wars film that can make it to theaters shall be, however new episodes of Star Wars: Ahsoka are presently airing weekly on Disney+.
Actors Who Give up Films Throughout Manufacturing
These actors have been all set to play key roles in well-known films — till they dropped out on the final minute. (Or, in some instances, after the final minute.)
