“Star Wars” Ben Solo Film Campaign Intensifies

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The other week, following news breaking about Steven Soderbergh’s rejected “The Hunt for Ben Solo” film, a targeted fan campaign emerged trying to get Disney to reconsider.

As revealed at the time, Soderbergh, actor Adam Driver and Lucasfilm were all ready to make the film, which would’ve taken place after the events of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” but Disney’s top brass (namely Bob Iger and Alan Bergman) rejected it.

Fan efforts began soon after with rallies in New York City and Los Angeles, letters and petitions popping up, even a plane being flown over Disney’s Burbank lot with the message ‘Save The Hunt for Ben Solo’ in late October.

Now, in an interview with Collider while promoting “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” due in cinemas and on Netflix shortly, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” director Rian Johnson made a passionate plea for the film:

“Take my money! I only know what I read about it online. I didn’t know anything about it, but who knows how things are developed these days? But man, I will watch Driver in anything, but I would love to see him play that character again.”

The outlet also reports that another plane with a banner was flown over Disney Burbank in California this week with the message: “Shareholders want The Hunt for Ben Solo”.

THR adds that people have been posting flyers made up like a ‘Missing Person’ poster of Adam Driver as Kylo Ren with the hashtag #THEHUNTFORBENSOLO. One impassioned fan even went as far as to rent a billboard in Times Square, which read: “For Adam. No one’s ever really gone. Hope lives. Ben is alive! #THBS.”

The next film in the franchise is “The Mandalorian and Grogu” which hits cinemas on May 22nd 2026.