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Guillermo del Toro opened up about this missed chance during an interview, revealing that he was in talks for a Star Wars project that would have been directed by him. He mentioned that he had written a script for a Star Wars movie, which remains unproduced. Additionally, he had drafted concepts for a project focusing on the origins of the Jedi, set 25,000 years before the original saga—a narrative that intriguingly echoes the current direction taken by James Mangold with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, as well as reportedly for his own upcoming Star Wars projects.