‘Star Wars’ Followers Have not Given Up on Ben Solo’s Cinematic Return

Final yr, we realized we might’ve had a Star Wars film centered on Adam Driver’s Ben Solo within the aftermath of Rise of Skywalker. Titled The Hunt for Ben Solo, it’d have had Steven Soderbergh as director and author, which on its face seems like a film followers would dig. However Disney killed that concept, partially as a result of they felt Ben pretty definitively died, and followers have since stewed in resentment for what can’t be.

Within the months since, some have taken it upon themselves to get Disney to reverse its resolution. Lately, IGN interviewed Brianna Jones, a author and voice actor main the cost on this endeavor. The place Driver and Soderbergh have typically accepted the movie’s destiny and moved on, Jones feels information of Hunt’s cancellation “tore by the very material of the franchise. The Hunt For Ben Solo reignited a spark inside us all and introduced us collectively. […] Now followers of all ages from across the globe have mobilized for a typical aim: to carry Ben dwelling and proceed his saga.”

On a big scale, Johns and her cohorts have created “Lacking” posters and purchased advert house on Occasions Sq. billboards calling for the Ben Solo film to be greenlit. Addition efforts embrace an ordinary petition, sending letters to Disney, and even a fan meetup on the finish of the month—as she informed IGN, their plan is to be “so good [Disney] can’t ignore us,” and the hope is for extra followers to hitch them in getting this effort off the bottom.

This play to make the Ben Solo film occur is one in all many fan-driven efforts to achieve out to firms that cropped up all through 2025. The Avatar fandom can also be preventing for a film to return out—particularly bringing The Legend of Aang again to theaters after it was kicked down Paramount+—and extra lately, the Stranger Issues group’s hope for a secret ninth episode that concludes the just-ended collection in a theoretically better fashion. The latter didn’t pan out, however the different two are at the moment ongoing.

Who is aware of if followers will get what they need in relation to Ben, although. They will not be giving up on this movie, however Disney positive appears prepared to maneuver on from something directly connected to the Sequel Trilogy so it could possibly go and chart a new path for the franchise.

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