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Guillermo del Toro Opens Up About the ‘Jabba the Hutt’ Star Wars Movie He Almost Made · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Giermo del Toro is among this era's most potent directors,
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  Speaker 2: in part because at his heart, he's a fanboy, a
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  Speaker 2: self professed film geek that includes a deep love of
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  Speaker 2: Star Wars. In fact that a comic con in twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: he even watx Poetic about a fantasy Star Wars project.
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  Speaker 2: He dreamed of making a gangster saga about the rise
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  Speaker 2: of Job of the Hut in The Vein of The Godfather.
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  Speaker 2: Last month, del Toro himself confirmed a Job of the
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  Speaker 2: Hut script was written, but the project never got off
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  Speaker 2: the ground. He admits to Collider it can still sting,
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  Speaker 2: saying we were busy with a lot of stuff and
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  Speaker 2: it's not my property or my money. So it was
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  Speaker 2: one of those thirty screenplays that goes away. Sometimes I'm bitter,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes I'm not. I always turn to my team after
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  Speaker 2: this happens and say, good practice, guys. We designed a
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  Speaker 2: great world. We learned you never can be ungrateful. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: life sends you, there's something to be learned. So I
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  Speaker 2: trust the universe. The sage wisdom of Gierma Del Toro
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  Speaker 2: is currently in pre production on another dream project are
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  Speaker 2: reimagining of Frankenstein
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