\n\tA plane with the banner \u201cShareholders Want The Hunt for Ben Solo,\u201d the latter part being the hoped-for movie\u2019s title, flew over Disney\u2019s Burbank-based headquarters in the 11 a.m. hour Thursday, just hours after the company had its earnings call.<\/p>\n
\n\tIt\u2019s the latest banner-flying move (fans hired a plane with a banner reading \u201cSave the Hunt for Ben Solo\u201d in late October) and comes the same week as flyers showed up in Los Angeles\u2019 mid-Wilshire area on lampposts and street signs, taking the form of missing persons posters.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cMissing\u201d and \u201cHave You Seen This Man?\u201d flank a photo of Driver as Ben Solo, also known as Kylo Ren. On top of personal information, it notes that the person was last seen five years and 10 months ago, referring to the release date of The Rise of Skywalker, which occurred in December 2019.<\/p>\n
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\n\tAll this hullaballoo comes after Driver, in an October interview with the Associated Press, revealed he and acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh came up with an idea and how a script was written by Scott Z. Burns. It was even given the thumbs up by Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe took it to Bob Iger and Alan Bergman and they said no,\u201d Driver said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSoderbergh confirmed the project and its being blown up, Alderaan style.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe irony here, however, is that Rise of Skywalker has such a poor reputation amongst fans and audiences in general that it killed Star Wars movies for years. Next summers The Mandalorian and Grogu will be the first movie since 2019.<\/p>\n
\n\tOn top of that, the character was killed at the end of the movie in a redemptive act. The idea of resurrecting him would go against his sacrifice and lend more incredulity to the Star Wars franchise\u2019 very loose concept of death, as it has brought back such characters as Emperor Palpatine, Death Maul, and even Boba Fett.<\/p>\n
\n\tStill, as any decent Star Wars fan could tell you, rebellions are built on hope. And right now there is a hope amongst a faction that their actions can change Jedi minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You could almost call it the Rise of Solo. Or maybe A New New Hope. Weeks after it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[27216,18,117,19,17,327,8127,8130],"class_list":{"0":"post-179938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-adam-driver","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-star-wars","15":"tag-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115546907324972941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}