While there are a handful of upcoming Star Wars movies to look forward to, one focused on Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren, a.k.a. Ben Solo, isn’t among them. Last October, Driver revealed that he’d teamed up with Steven Soderbergh, who directed him in Logan Lucky, and Rebecca Blunt to put together a story following Ben after he’s somehow resurrected post-Rise of Skywalker. Alas, Lucasfilm didn’t bite at the project, but when the time came that Driver decided he wanted to talk about this scrapped attempt to bring back Kylo Ren, Soderbergh gave him some advice.
During Soderbergh’s interview with BKMag, it was brought up how it sounded that the Kylo Ren movie was close getting greenlighted by then-Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and the rest of the company’s leadership, only for the even higher-ups at Disney to put the kibosh on that for “story reasons.” When the Ocean’s trilogy filmmaker was asked if he was aware how disappointed Kennedy was that this happened, he answered:
