{"id":200269,"date":"2025-10-21T01:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/disney-nixed-ben-solo-film-from-adam-driver-and-steven-soderbergh\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T01:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:08:08","slug":"disney-nixed-ben-solo-film-from-adam-driver-and-steven-soderbergh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/disney-nixed-ben-solo-film-from-adam-driver-and-steven-soderbergh\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney nixed Ben Solo film from Adam Driver and Steven Soderbergh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Adam Driver reveals he was developing a new Star Wars movie \u2018THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO\u2019 with Steven Soderbergh<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Was set after \u2018The Rise of Skywalker\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Lucasfilm loved the idea but Disney said no \u2014 \u201cThey didn\u2019t see how Ben Solo was alive\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K9KdJKxzCs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/K9KdJKxzCs<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HoL9yiN7PK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/HoL9yiN7PK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/1980389850810614238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI always was interested in doing another \u2018Star Wars,\u2019\u201d says Adam Driver. \u201cI had been talking about doing another one since 2021. Kathleen (Kennedy) had reached out. I always said: With a great director and a great story, I\u2019d be there in a second. I loved that character and loved playing him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Driver added that he took the concept to Steven W for a film that would take place after 2019\u2019s \u201cThe Rise of Skywalker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe presented the script to Lucasfilm. They loved the idea. They totally understood our angle and why we were doing it,\u201d Driver says. \u201cWe took it to Bob Iger and Alan Bergman and they said no. They didn\u2019t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was called \u2018The Hunt for Ben Solo\u2019 and it was really cool,\u201d adds Driver. \u201cBut it is no more, so I can finally talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soderbergh, in a statement, said: \u201cI really enjoyed making the movie in my head. I\u2019m just sorry the fans won\u2019t get to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/1980389850810614238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/131364107.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Driver reveals he was developing a new Star Wars movie \u2018THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO\u2019 with Steven Soderbergh \u2022 Was set after \u2018The Rise of Skywalker\u2019 \u2022 Lucasfilm loved the idea but Disney said no \u2014 \u201cThey didn\u2019t see how Ben Solo was alive\u201d (Source: https:\/\/t.co\/K9KdJKxzCs) pic.twitter.com\/HoL9yiN7PK \u2014 DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) October 20, 2025 \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-200269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}