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Adam Driver reveals he pitched a standalone Star Wars film about Kylo Ren, here is what occurred to it

Adam Driver reveals he pitched a standalone Star Wars film about Kylo Ren, here is what occurred to it


Adam Driver lately revealed that he and director Steven Soderbergh spent two years creating a standalone Star Wars challenge titled The Hunt for Ben Solo. The movie was set to happen after The Rise of Skywalker (2019) and observe Driver’s Kylo Ren, aka Ben Solo, on a journey of redemption. He additionally revealed that Soderbergh initially labored on the story with Logan Fortunate screenwriter Rebecca Blunt, and later Scott Z. Burns joined to assist pen the script.

Adam Driver as Kylo Ren

“I all the time was excited by doing one other Star Wars,” Driver advised AP in a sit-down chat. “I had been speaking about doing one other one since 2021. Kathleen [Kennedy] had reached out. I all the time mentioned: ‘With an important director and an important story, I’d be there in a second.’ I cherished that character and cherished taking part in him.” Driver additional described the movie as “handmade and character-driven,” evaluating it to the Eighties basic The Empire Strikes Again, which he referred to as the usual of what a Star Wars film ought to be.

The duo pitched The Hunt for Ben Solo to Lucasfilm executives Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Filoni, and Cary Beck, who “cherished the thought.” Nonetheless, when the challenge was dropped at Disney, it was rejected. “We introduced the script to Lucasfilm. They cherished the thought. They completely understood our angle and why we have been doing it. We took it to Bob Iger and Alan Bergman, and so they mentioned no. They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that,” Driver recalled.

Soderbergh mirrored on the expertise, saying, “I actually loved making the film in my head. I’m simply sorry the followers gained’t get to see it.” Driver echoed that sentiment, calling the challenge “one of many coolest [expletive] scripts I had ever been part of.”

Driver first debuted as Kylo Ren in 2015’s The Pressure Awakens and reprised the function in The Final Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Representatives for Disney and Lucasfilm declined to touch upon the challenge.

On the work entrance

This fall, Driver stars in his third collaboration with director Jim Jarmusch, within the Venice prize-winner Father Mom Sister Brother. Driver says he didn’t hesitate to affix: “All Jarmusch wanted to do was ask, and I used to be in, regardless of the function.”

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