Extra details about the scrapped Ben Solo film has come to mild, with writer-director Steven revealing a tragic first the film grew to become for the Star Wars universe.
What did Steven Soderbergh say concerning the Ben Solo film?
In a current submit on his Bluesky account, Soderbergh revealed that his deliberate film with Adam Driver, titled The Hunt for Ben Solo, was pretty near being performed. A lot so, in reality, that Soderbergh had a completed film script for it, and that that they had turned it in to be greenlit by Disney when it was rejected.
In line with Soderbergh, he requested producer Kathleen Kennedy about it, and was informed that is the primary time in Star Wars’ historical past a mission this near being made was rejected.
“Within the aftermath of the [Hunt for Ben Solo] scenario, I requested Kathy Kennedy if LFL had ever turned in a completed film script for greenlight to Disney and had it rejected. She stated no, this was a primary,” stated Soderbergh.
Ever because the preliminary discovery of the movie, extra data appears to have come out by the day. In line with a new report from The Playlist this week, the film was far more than only a idea, and had even begun transferring into early preparation when Disney determined in opposition to it. Jeff Sneider of The InSneider additionally stated that Lucasfilm has no plans to revisit the character of Kylo Ren/Ben Solo presently.
In a current interview with AP, Driver revealed that acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh tried to develop a solo Kylo Ren film, one that may happen after The Rise of Skywalker. Regardless of it being “one of many coolest” scripts he’d ever learn, the concept was nixed as a result of Disney’s Bob Iger didn’t see how Ben Solo would’ve survived the occasions of The Rise of Skywalker, who dies on the finish of the movie.