Adam Driver lately revealed that he and director Steven Soderbergh wished to make a Kylo Ren film known as The Hunt for Ben Solo, which might be set after the occasions of The Rise of Skywalker.

The information bought followers excited, even prompting a billboard marketing campaign to carry the film into existence. Subsequent reporting has revealed, nevertheless, that the film was set to enter manufacturing with a accomplished script, and all of Lucasfilm management was reportedly on board till Disney senior executives nixed it.

In accordance with The Playlist, The Hunt for Ben Solo had a accomplished script by Scott Z. Burns, who was paid within the low seven figures for the job. Lucasfilm execs Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Filoni, and Carrie Beck had been all concerned and signed off on the challenge, and it was getting into early prep and staffing whereas it was on the desk of Disney CEO Bob Iger and Alan Bergman.

Iger and Bergman, nevertheless, nixed it. “They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that,” Driver informed AP Information.

And in some way, Palpatine returned?!

Palpatine??? Returned??? And but the thought of Ben Solo not dying in The Rise of Skywalker was an excessive amount of? It doesn’t monitor with Star Wars logic, however that’s apparently what occurred. I dunno.

In accordance with The Playlist, Bergman, who Iger is grooming to take over the CEO place, has fallen out of favor internally based mostly on his dealing with of “a number of high-profile initiatives” and that “his standing inside Disney’s succession plan has reportedly weakened.”

Soderbergh additionally reportedly confirmed through Bluesky (although the account is unverified) that The Hunt for Ben Solo was the primary script that was accomplished and bought a greenlight from Lucasfilm that Disney subsequently rejected. Lucasfilm designer Bobby McKenna additionally posted on X that he labored on a design dash for the challenge and that “the film would have been sick. rip.”

RIP certainly.