Fans are up in arms after discovering that Disney rejected a Star Wars project called The Hunt for Ben Solo in 2021.
Variety reports that fans are now clamoring to save the film with a campaign that included a plane flying a banner in Burbank, California that read, “Save The Hunt for Ben Solo.” #THBS.”
Days later, a billboard in New York City cropped up that said, “For Adam. No one’s ever really gone. Hope lives. Ben is alive!”
In a recent interview with the Associated Press, Adam Driver revealed that he and Steven Soderbergh worked on the script for The Hunt for Ben Solo for two years. The film would have been a sequel set after The Rise of Skywalker and would follow Driver’s Kylo Ren, reborn as Ben Solo, as he sought redemption.
“I always was interested in doing another Star Wars. I had been talking about doing another one since 2021,” Driver told the AP. “I always said: ‘With a great director and a great story, I’d be there in a second.’ I loved that character and loved playing him. It was called ‘The Hunt for Ben Solo,’ and it was really cool. But it is no more, so I can finally talk about it.”
While Lucasfilm “loved the idea,” Disney executives ultimately decided to shelve it. “They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that,” Driver explained.