Adam Driver just told everyone about a Star Wars movie that almost happened. He worked on a Ben Solo film for two years, but Disney turned it down. Fans are now doing everything they can to get Disney to change its mind.
According to Daily Dot, the movie was going to be called The Hunt for Ben Solo. It would have picked up where The Rise of Skywalker left off. Driver teamed up with director Steven Soderbergh and two writers, Rebecca Blunt and Scott Z. Burns, to make the script. The people at Lucasfilm really liked what they came up with, but things didn’t go as planned when they showed it to Disney’s top bosses.
Driver talked about what happened in a recent interview. “We presented the script to Lucasfilm. They loved the idea,” he said. “We took it to Bob Iger and Alan Bergman, and they said no. They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that.” After putting in two years of work, the project was dead. Fans, however, voiced their strong support for the project on platforms like X.
Fans Aren’t Giving Up Without A Fight
Right after Driver’s interview came out on October 20, fans started using the hashtag #TheHuntForBenSolo on social media. But they didn’t stop there. Three days later, someone paid for a plane to fly over Disney’s studio in Burbank, California. The plane pulled a banner that said “Save #TheHuntForBenSolo.” Pictures of it went all over the internet.
Things kept getting bigger. A fan named B.D. Neagle bought ad space on a huge digital billboard in Times Square. The message showed up every 28 minutes above a bakery on Broadway. It said “For Adam. No one’s ever really gone. Hope lives. Ben is alive! #THBS.”
Neagle told Collider why she did it. “I’m just a fan who thought Ben’s story wasn’t finished. I wanted to do what I could to support the fandom and everyone attached to The Hunt for Ben Solo,” she said. She wanted Disney to see that people actually want this movie. “The intent was to show Disney this is what fans actually want.”
Some fans even put up “missing persons” flyers outside Disney’s offices asking them to “bring Ben home.” Others got together online to flood social media with posts about the movie. All of this shows how much people still care about Ben Solo, even though the sequel trilogy finished years ago.
Neagle thinks this campaign is different from other fan pushes. “What makes this fight for Ben Solo different is that we know a finished script exists,” she explained. “It’s about fighting for a story that was ready to be told.” Since the script is already done, fans think Disney might still say yes if enough people speak up. The way people are rallying around Ben Solo shows how much fans care about Star Wars characters and their stories.
Published: Oct 28, 2025 02:45 pm