A Star Wars movie resurrecting young Kylo Ren was never a good idea, even if Steven Soderbergh was attached to direct
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isney gets a lot of stick when it comes to Star Wars. Ever since the Mouse House bought Lucasfilm for $4bn in 2012, there have been those who blame the studio for turning George Lucas’s mythic space opera into an endlessly respawning content farm.
But let’s give them credit where credit’s due: according to a new Associated Press interview with Adam Driver, Disney did at least have the presence of mind to politely decline a film whose entire premise would have been enough to make Darth Vader himself force-choke the pitch meeting from beyond the grave. Yes, it is (or would have been) Ben Solo: The Movie, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Driver as the resurrected Sith-Jedi protagonist of that oh-so-wonderful entry, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Yes, Driver really does seem to think this film, provisionally titled The Hunt for Ben Solo, is one people might actually want to see. After traumatising the collective psyche of legions of Star Wars fans by reintroducing the long-dead Palpatine, entirely wiping the events of the previous film, and introducing something called the “Force dyad” to explain why Rey and Ren are suddenly snogging, Disney was invited to bring back Kylo for a high-jinks sequel.
