More information about the scrapped Ben Solo movie has come to light, with writer-director Steven revealing a sad first the movie became for the Star Wars universe.
What did Steven Soderbergh say about the Ben Solo movie?
In a recent post on his Bluesky account, Soderbergh revealed that his planned movie with Adam Driver, titled The Hunt for Ben Solo, was fairly close to being done. So much so, in fact, that Soderbergh had a finished movie script for it, and that they had turned it in to be greenlit by Disney when it was rejected.
According to Soderbergh, he asked producer Kathleen Kennedy about it, and was told this is the first time in Star Wars’ history a project this close to being made was rejected.
“In the aftermath of the [Hunt for Ben Solo] situation, I asked Kathy Kennedy if LFL had ever turned in a finished movie script for greenlight to Disney and had it rejected. She said no, this was a first,” said Soderbergh.
Ever since the initial discovery of the film, more information seems to have come out by the day. According to a new report from The Playlist this week, the movie was much more than just a concept, and had even begun moving into early preparation when Disney decided against it. Jeff Sneider of The InSneider also said that Lucasfilm has no plans to revisit the character of Kylo Ren/Ben Solo currently.
In a recent interview with AP, Driver revealed that acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh tried to develop a solo Kylo Ren movie, one that would take place after The Rise of Skywalker. Despite it being “one of the coolest” scripts he’d ever read, the idea was nixed because Disney’s Bob Iger didn’t see how Ben Solo would’ve survived the events of The Rise of Skywalker, who dies at the end of the film.
