Ron Howard may explain his reasoning for not giving Jabba a cameo in Solo, which is fine and dandy. But the truth is Jabba the Hutt didn’t belong in Solo: a Star Wars Story. Solo is a story of beginnings, specifically Han Solo’s beginning. Jabba the Hutt isn’t part of Han’s beginning, plain and simple.
Jabba is most definitely a part of Han Solo’s story though, and if there is a follow up movie then he should be in it. There were enough characters in Solo that deserved more screen time that adding Jabba would have made a bad movie even longer, or taken away screen time from someone like L3-37 who deserved more time to be developed.
Now as I just said, in my opinion Solo was a bad movie. A very, very bad movie. It’s probably the worst Star Wars movie made to date, passing The Phantom Menace for the crown of worst SW movie. The movie is bad because it really is two movies that are spliced together, poorly. Adding Jabba wouldn’t solve the movies suckatude at all. In fact I think the addition of Jabba would have made Solo worse (if that’s possible).
The other thing with Jabba that has to be considered is which Jabba do you show? Do we see the digitally inserted Jabba from A New Hope, or the big n fat Jabba from Return of the Jedi? Personally I despise the ANH Jabba- he looks terrible, and moves terrible too. The bloated and too fat to move Jabba from Jedi is the way to go in my mind, but the timeline doesn’t support seeing that version of Jabba in another Han Solo movie.
Remember, this movie happens before the events in ANH where Jabba was added, so by default we’d have to see the Jabba that nobody really likes.
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