After Adam Driver’s surprising Star Wars bombshell about The Hunt for Ben Solo, followers are demanding that Disney resurrect the challenge. Driver revealed that he and director Steven Soderbergh spent two years engaged on a film that will have revived Ben Solo after The Rise of Skywalker‘s ending. Soderbergh and Rebecca Blunt outlined the story and Scott Z. Burns wrote the script.
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, vp Carrie Beck, and chief artistic officer Dave Filoni “liked the concept”, however the challenge was scrapped after being offered to Disney CEO Bob Iger and co-chairman Alan Bergman, who “did not see how Ben Solo was alive.”
Now, followers have taken to social media to demand that Disney make the challenge a actuality once more. Try a few of the reactions beneath:
@balancedpadawan argues that because the franchise is “about wrestling with the darkish and the prospect for redemption,” it wants Adam Driver again as Ben Solo, and the scrapped film would have been the proper challenge to make this occur.
@RosaLynaLerman insists that Disney greenlight The Hunt for Ben Solo, emphasizing Driver’s love for the character and all of the work that he and the film’s artistic workforce already put into the challenge.
@TheStarWarsAcad factors out that with virtually all followers wanting The Hunt for Ben Solo to occur, that is the primary time the fandom has been united in a protracted whereas, “it should not be swept underneath the rug”, and places out a name for the franchise to deliver again Ben Solo.
@reylobalance encourages followers to “BE LOUD” and go to Iger and Bergman’s Instagram accounts to allow them to know that there’s widespread curiosity within the film being made.
@StarWarShipper highlights the necessity for Disney to make The Hunt for Ben Solo by saying “Disney deliver her boy residence!” alongside a GIF of Leia Organa saying she desires Ben again in The Drive Awakens.
There’s a full slate of Star Wars films already within the works, with the subsequent two being The Mandalorian and Grogu, which is in post-production and releasing in 2026, and Starfighter, which is in manufacturing and coming to theaters in 2027.
Different films are in improvement, together with a Rey Skywalker story from Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, a trilogy of movies from Simon Kinberg, a Filoni film set in the course of the New Republic period, and James Mangold’s film set 25,000 years earlier than the prequels within the Star Wars timeline.
Regardless of this sturdy slate, given the fan outcry following Driver’s reveal of The Hunt for Ben Solo, there’s a probability that Disney may resurrect the film and reverse their earlier choice. Lucasfilm is already fleshing out the post-Rise of Skywalker timeline with Starfighter, a number of of the flicks in improvement, and the brand new novel The Final Order by Kwame Mbalia.
The Hunt for Ben Solo has a greater probability of occurring now that Star Wars followers know in regards to the challenge and have largely united in an effort to revive it. Probabilities of it occurring may improve if The Mandalorian and Grogu performs nicely on the field workplace and makes Disney assured in additional increasing their theatrical slate.
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Mark Hamill, James Earl Jones, David Prowse, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Ian McDiarmid, Ewan McGregor, Rosario Dawson, Lars Mikkelsen, Rupert Good friend, Moses Ingram, Frank Oz, Pedro Pascal
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The Mandalorian, Andor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The E-book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, The Acolyte, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Lando, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars: The Unhealthy Batch, Star Wars: Resistance, Star Wars: Younger Jedi Adventures, Star Wars: Visions
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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II – Assault of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Again, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Drive Awakens, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Final Jedi, Star Wars: Episode IX- The Rise of Skywalker, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: Daybreak of the Jedi, Star Wars: New Jedi Order
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Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Rey Skywalker, Emperor Palpatine / Darth Sidious, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Grand Inquisitor, Reva (The Third Sister), The Fifth Brother, The Seventh Sister, The Eighth Brother, Yoda, Din Djarin, Grogu, Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, Leia Organa, Ben Solo/Kylo Ren