Ben Solo’s redemption in The Rise of Skywalker stays the most effective moments within the Star Wars sequels, although many really feel his story ended a lot too quickly. Followers have been holding onto hope that the son of Leia Organa and Han Solo would possibly return, particularly following the information that Disney canceled Adam Driver’s The Hunt For Ben Solo.
It has been reported that Adan’s Driver’s Hunt for Ben Solo was a full script developed over two years with Lucasfilm’s assist in collaboration with Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns. Meant to discover Ben Solo’s redemption even additional, Disney executives rejected the pitch as they have been unable to reconcile how Ben Solo could possibly be alive after dying in Episode IX.
Retaining that in thoughts, listed below are a number of methods Star Wars may convey Ben Solo/Kylo Ren again to the franchise regardless of his Rise of Skywalker demise.
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Ben Solo Can Return As A Drive Ghost
Probably the most simple and canonically supported means for Ben Solo to return is as a Drive Ghost. We’ve seen the likes of Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Anakin, Luke, and Leia retaining their consciousnesses after demise, providing knowledge to those that are nonetheless residing.
As a result of Ben Solo’s sacrifice saving Rey mirrors Anakin’s ultimate redemption a lot, it is actually doable that his personal spirit may equally reside on by way of the Drive.
Particularly with a Rey Skywalker-led New Jedi Order film within the works, it could be extremely simple to see Ben Solo’s Drive ghost providing steering as somebody who’s skilled each the sunshine and the darkish sides of the Drive.
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Cloning Ben Solo’s Physique
Whereas it won’t be the most well-liked alternative given the way it was obtained with Palpatine’s return in Rise of Skywalker, it must be famous that cloning is at the very least a possible choice with regards to bringing Ben Solo again to the franchise.
Seeing as how Ben Solo died on the identical planet the place the fallen Emperor was cloned and revived, it is not that large of a leap to recommend that his physique may have been recovered with darkish Sith science getting used to convey him again to the land of the residing.
Whereas it is most likely not an choice Lucasfilm would truly go along with, a cloned Ben Solo may discover an interesting query about what would occur to the newly redeemed character if Ben Solo was certainly cloned. Would the redemption be maintained, or would his darkness return?
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Flashbacks To A Youthful Ben Solo
If Lucasfilm needs to proceed Ben’s story with out undoing his demise like The Hunt for Ben Solo presumably would, flashbacks are a straightforward route. In spite of everything, reveals like Andor and Obi-Wan Kenobi proved audiences will eagerly watch early life between trilogies and flicks, so why not Ben’s early life as his uncle’s apprentice previous to his corruption?
A film (or perhaps a full sequence) would definitely humanize Ben’s path to changing into Kylo Ren, whereas exhibiting what actually fractured each Luke’s Jedi Academy and finally the New Republic itself with the rise of the First Order.
Even when it was embedded in another future Star Wars challenge, a Ben Solo flashback would greater than seemingly be most welcome by followers.
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Ben Solo Will get Chosen By The Drive Itself (An Agent of Steadiness)
It is price mentioning that The Drive has its personal will and design. Retaining that in thoughts, it could be fascinating to see Ben Solo’s story proceed as a result of the Drive is not completed with him.
Very similar to his grandfather earlier than him, Ben Solo left behind a novel legacy, having been a robust wielder of each the sunshine and darkish sides of the Drive. Like Anakin Skywalker, one may argue that it may make Ben a pure champion chosen by the Drive as an agent of true stability, requiring a revival again to the bodily realm.
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A Kylo Ren Prequel Film
Ben Solo’s transformation into Kylo Ren stays one in all Star Wars’ most tragic tales that has barely been proven on display. The comics have touched on it, like Charles Soule’s The Rise of Kylo Ren, however a full movie or Disney+ sequence may flesh out the complete tragedy of Ben Solo in reside motion.
Likewise, Soule’s present Kylo Ren comedian sequence, Legacy of Vader, has been an interesting exploration into his yr because the Supreme Chief between The Final Jedi and Rise of Skywalker (which might be ripe for a Kylo Ren-led film).
No matter when it could be set, a standalone Kylo Ren film may function each an excellent character examine that may even be one other approach to get Adam Driver’s Ben Solo again to the Star Wars franchise.
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The World Between Worlds
Making its debut in Star Wars Rebels (and later showing in live-action in 2023’s Ahsoka sequence), the Drive nexus that’s the mysterious World Between Worlds is perhaps probably the most highly effective (but deliberately underused) storytelling software the Star Wars franchise has ever created.
It’s a dimension that connects all time and house by way of the Drive, permitting customers to change destiny itself. Nonetheless, that has to this point solely been finished in a really singular occasion, with Ezra Bridger pulling Ahsoka Tano from sure demise within the current previous earlier than sending her again.
Lucasfilm’s Dave Filoni has made it clear that the World Between Worlds is primarily meant to realize information and perception from the Drive, quite than rewriting historical past and the threads of time itself (although that is one thing a Sith Lord like Palpatine actually would have tried had been in a position to acquire entry to the nexus).
That being stated, one may argue there would by no means be a greater use for the World Between Worlds than to facilitate the return of some of the dynamic characters from Disney’s Star Wars period.
Curiously sufficient, Kylo Ren’s phrases have been heard by Ezra when he was first exploring the World Between Worlds. As such, that would actually be used as a key precedent if the nexus have been certainly used to convey Ben Solo again.
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Darkish Drive Magic Might Carry Ben Solo Again
Whereas cloning and science could possibly be used, as was finished for Palpatine through the Sith Everlasting, Star Wars lore is filled with darker, extra mystical strategies of resurrection as properly.
As a chief instance, The Nightsisters of Dathomir mastered necromancy as was seen in The Clone Wars and Ahsoka, but additionally full resurrection as was lately revealed in 2025’s Tales of the Underworld with the revival of Asajj Ventress. By that very same token, historic Drive magicks and sorcery may certainly be used to convey Ben Solo again.
New stakes may even be created if Ben have been to be revived incomplete utilizing Nightsister magicks, maybe shifting between the sunshine and the darkish as he struggles to regain stability as soon as returning to the bodily realm.
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Ben Solo and Rey’s Distinctive Drive Dyad Powers
Maybe the strongest path ahead lies in Ben and Rey’s bond as a Drive Dyad. Rey and Ben shared a connection so highly effective it defied demise, time, and house. They may switch objects, see one another throughout galaxies, and even heal one another’s wounds, therefore Ben’s vitality switch that saved Rey’s life on the obvious price of his personal.
The Drive Dyad connection stays largely unexplored post-Rise of Skywalker. If their souls are nonetheless linked, Rey Skywalker may simply be the important thing to Ben’s return. Possibly his consciousness stays inside her through their uncommon bond “unseen in generations”, ready to reemerge when the time is correct.
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Ben Solo By no means Died At All (He Teleported)
Some of the well-liked fan theories suggests Ben by no means actually died on Exegol. In spite of everything, he merely vanished by way of the Drive after transferring his vitality to avoid wasting Rey.
Whereas this was prone to mirror comparable Jedi physique disappearances after demise, like Obi-Wan Kenobi in A New Hope or Yoda in Return of the Jedi, it is price noting that teleportation performed a key function in Rise of Skywalker attributable to Ben and Rey’s distinctive bond as Drive dyad.
Not solely may Kylo Ren and Rey work together and duel one another no matter house, they ended up buying and selling bodily areas throughout The Rise of Skywalker’s second act. In a while following Ben Solo’s redemption, Rey additionally despatched him a lightsaber, permitting him to duel the Knights of Ren.
Retaining that in thoughts, it may simply be retconned that, quite than changing into one with the Drive, that Ben’s physique was merely teleported to another location (maybe even explaining Driver’s Hunt for Ben Solo title?).
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