The historical past of Star Wars films prior to now few years has principally been the historical past of stuff that by no means bought made. The final produced and launched Star Wars movie was Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in late 2019. In almost 4 years since, there was a lot of improvement of quite a few initiatives at Lucasfilm however nothing that has come shut to 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 Dark Knight trilogy — simply revealed on the Happy Sad 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 movie that Guillermo del Toro was going to direct,” Goyer mentioned. “It was about four years ago. I also wrote an unproduced scriptment for an origins of the Jedi movie, also for Star Wars, that I wrote for them that took place 25,000 years before the first Star Wars film.”
Del Toro himself later confirmed the revelation on Twitter, writing “True. Can’t say much. Maybe two letters “J” and “BB” is that three letter?” (Dummy me has no thought what he’s hinting at there. Maybe 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 engaging.
As to why such a seemingly surefire winner of a undertaking didn’t occur, Goyer advised host Josh Horowitz, “there was a lot of behind the scenes stuff going on at Lucasfilm at the time. But it’s a cool script.”
“Dabbling in Star Wars would have been fun for me,” Goyer added. Probably would have been enjoyable to watch too! Alas. It’s nonetheless not totally clear what the subsequent Star Wars film that can make it to theaters shall be, however new episodes of Star Wars: Ahsoka are at present airing weekly on Disney+.
Actors Who Quit Movies During Production
These actors had been all set to play key roles in well-known films — till they dropped out on the final minute. (Or, in some circumstances, after the final minute.)
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