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

Final 12 months, we discovered 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, partly 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 choice. Just lately, IGN interviewed Brianna Jones, a author and voice actor main the cost on this endeavor. The place Driver and Soderbergh have usually accepted the movie’s destiny and moved on, Jones feels information of Hunt’s cancellation “tore by way of the very cloth 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 purpose: to convey Ben residence and proceed his saga.”

On a big scale, Johns and her cohorts have created “Lacking” posters and acquired advert house on Occasions Sq. billboards calling for the Ben Solo film to be greenlit. Addition efforts embody a regular 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 affix them in getting this effort off the bottom.

This play to make the Ben Solo film occur is one among many fan-driven efforts to succeed in out to companies that cropped up all through 2025. The Avatar fandom can be combating for a film to return out—particularly bringing The Legend of Aang again to theaters after it was kicked down Paramount+—and extra just lately, the Stranger Issues neighborhood’s hope for a secret ninth episode that concludes the just-ended sequence 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 the case of Ben, although. They is probably not giving up on this movie, however Disney certain appears prepared to maneuver on from something directly connected to the Sequel Trilogy so it might go and chart a new path for the franchise.

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