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

Final 12 months, we realized we may’ve had a Star Wars film targeted 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 Johns, 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, Johns feels information of Hunt’s cancellation “tore via 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 area on Instances Sq. billboards calling for the Ben Solo film to be greenlit. Addition efforts embody a normal petition, sending letters to Disney, and even a fan meetup on the finish of the month—as she advised 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 in all many fan-driven efforts to achieve out to companies that cropped up all through 2025. The Avatar fandom can also be combating for a film to come back out—particularly bringing The Legend of Aang again to theaters after it was kicked down Paramount+—and extra just lately, the Stranger Issues group’s hope for a secret ninth episode that concludes the just-ended collection in a theoretically better fashion. The latter didn’t pan out, however the different two are presently ongoing.

Who is aware of if followers will get what they need on the subject 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 may go and chart a new path for the franchise.

Replace (1/11/2026 @ 11:52 AM ET): This text has been modified to appropriate the interviewee’s surname, and we remorse the error. 

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