In recent months, Star Wars news has been more like the deserts of Tatooine rather than the bustling cityscape of Coruscant. After years of non-stop casting, trailers, reveals, and more, the changing of the guard at Lucasfilm has resulted in a mostly calm landscape with one or two little blips here and there. With the exception of Ben Solo.

In October of last year, Star Wars star Adam Driver revealed that he and friend/Oscar-winner Steven Soderbergh had worked for multiple years on a project they were calling The Hunt for Ben Solo. It would’ve explored Driver’s character in more detail, in a story set after the events of The Rise of Skywalker. However, Disney decided not to move forward with it.

This, of course, sent Star Wars fans into a frenzy. This was a real thing, and it wasn’t happening? How was this not happening? Well, Driver and Soderbergh both explained that, basically, Disney executives said Ben Solo was dead, so bringing him back didn’t make sense. Even though they’d just released a movie that brought back Emperor Palpatine and faked the deaths of multiple other characters, in a franchise that brings back characters more often than not, that was the biggest hang-up.

Which, on the one hand, sort of made sense. Executives tend to make decisions based on statistics and facts. And it is a fact that Ben Solo is dead. It is also a fact, though, that Ben Solo is a character fans really connected with and wanted more of.

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