Director James Mangold recently shared details about his scrapped Star Wars movie, revealing that the popular character Grogu would not have been included in his original vision. During a recent interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Mangold discussed his initial pitch for the Boba Fett film, which he described as a darker, borderline rated R, single-planet spaghetti western.

"The world would never be able to embrace Baby Yoda if I had made that because he didn't really belong in the world I was kind of envisioning," Mangold said (via Entertainment Weekly).

The movie's progress came to a halt due to a corporate realignment within Lucasfilm following the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story in 2018. Mangold stated that the studio shifted its focus away from films like his Boba Fett project and toward the opportunities presented by streaming platforms.