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Total Film
Entertainment
Jack Shepherd

The Hunt for Ben Solo is exactly what Star Wars needs right now, and Disney is crazy not to make it

Adam Driver as Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

In a galaxy far, far away, the dead speak! Or, at least, they used to…

While Star Wars characters once had a knack for returning from the Netherworld – Darth Maul, Darth Sidious, and Boba Fett, to name a few – bringing back Ben Solo has proven a step too far. Adam Driver recently revealed a film centring on the man formerly known as Kylo Ren was in the works, with a completed script from The Bourne Ultimatum's Scott Z. Burns and a director in Steven Soderbergh. Yet, despite the talent involved and Driver’s eagerness to return as one of the sequel trilogy’s best-received characters, the project, The Hunt For Ben Solo, was nixed by Disney’s Bob Iger and co-chairman Alan Bergman.

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