Adam Driver revealed to AP News his love for his character in Star Wars and shared details of a Ben Solo movie that would’ve taken place after The Rise of Skywalker that he spent two years developing with Steven Soderbergh. You can read the main highlights from the interview below.
✨THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO✨
”Soderbergh and Rebecca Blunt outlined a story that the group then pitched to Kennedy, Lucasfilm vice president Cary Beck and Lucasfilm chief creative officer Dave Filoni. They were interested, so the filmmakers then pulled in Scott Z. Burns to write a script. Driver calls the result “one of the coolest (expletive) scripts I had ever been a part of.”
“We presented the script to Lucasfilm. They loved the idea. They totally understood our angle and why we were doing it,” Driver says. “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.”
“It was called ‘The Hunt for Ben Solo’ and it was really cool,” adds Driver. “But it is no more, so I can finally talk about it.”
“Soderbergh, in a statement, said: “I really enjoyed making the movie in my head. I’m just sorry the fans won’t get to see it.”
Fans have yearned for more Ben Solo content since TROS, and to find out that Adam Driver himself was setting out to make it happen AND that he had the approval of Lucasfilm speaks volumes. It is an absolute shame that it wasn’t greenlit. This entire interview has shocked me on multiple levels. How do you feel? You can get in touch with me by leaving a comment below or following me on my social media channels: Instagram, X, Threads or Bluesky.
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