{"id":569449,"date":"2025-11-14T08:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/569449\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:28:11","slug":"the-last-jedi-director-comments-on-adam-drivers-scrapped-ben-solo-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/569449\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LAST JEDI Director Comments On Adam Driver\u2019s Scrapped BEN SOLO Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Wars fans were taken by surprise by the news<\/strong><\/a> that a\u00a0Ben Solo film starring Adam Driver had been scrapped by Disney. The revelation came courtesy of Adam Driver, who unexpectedly stated\u00a0he\u00a0had partnered up with director Steven Soderbergh to develop\u00a0The Hunt for Ben Solo.\u00a0According to Driver, the film was supposed to take place after 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, and would have centered around\u00a0former Kylo Ren, Ben Solo, following his redemption at the end of the movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Immediately after\u00a0the news came out, the scrapped project became\u00a0the topic of conversation among fans.\u00a0The reach of the scrapped movie has been such, that even a Star Wars director has given his thoughts on it. During an interview with Collider<\/strong><\/a>, Rian Johnson, who directed 2017’s The Last Jedi,\u00a0was asked about Driver’s canceled film. The director stated he had no knowledge of its existence prior to it hitting the news, but expressed his interest in watching Driver take on the role of Ben Solo once again:\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Take my money! I only know what I read about it online. I didn’t know anything about it, but who knows how things are developed these days? But man, I will watch Driver in anything, but I would love to see him play that character again.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ultimately, his comments are very surface-level, which is understandable, given that he’s being\u00a0asked about a scrapped project from a franchise he\u00a0contributed to. Nevertheless, Johnson’s The Last Jedi was arguably the one responsible for\u00a0a lot of\u00a0Kylo Ren’s character development. As such,\u00a0it’s interesting to get his thoughts on a project that would have starred the fallen Jedi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When speaking to AP<\/a><\/strong>, Driver revealed that, while Lucasfilm was excited about the project, it was ultimately scrapped when pitched to Disney CEO Bob Iger and Disney Co-Chairman Alan Bergman:<\/p>\n

“We presented the script to Lucasfilm. They loved the idea. They totally understood our angle and why we were doing it. We took it to Bob Iger and Alan Bergman and they said no. They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

As mentioned, excitement for the film\u00a0reached unexpected heights following its reveal. Just a few days after Driver talked about\u00a0the movie’s existence (or lack thereof),\u00a0a plane commissioned by an impassioned fan\u00a0flew\u00a0over Disney Studios with a banner reading, “Save The Hunt for Ben Solo.”<\/strong>\u00a0Speaking to Collider<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0the fan responsible for the stunt, Lianna Al Allaf, explained her hopes for the message: “I hope this banner shows just how much the character of Ben Solo means to so many of us.”<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Star Wars will return to theaters with The Mandalorian and Grogu, slated to hit theaters on May 22,\u00a02026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What do you think about Johnson’s comments regarding The Hunt for Ben Solo? What are your thoughts on The Last Jedi?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Wars fans were taken by surprise by the news that a\u00a0Ben Solo film starring Adam Driver had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[110989,180803,77,180804,3943,93955,4242,180806,180802,180805,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-569449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-adam-driver","9":"tag-ben-solo","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jedi","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-rian-johnson","14":"tag-star-wars","15":"tag-the-force-awakens","16":"tag-the-last-jedi","17":"tag-the-rise-of-skywalkers","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115547111713607459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}