Adam Driver Says the Ship Has Sailed on Kylo Ren and Star Wars
Ben Solo has officially left the chat. Again.
Adam Driver has closed the door on Kylo Ren for good, and he did it in just a few words. When he was asked on The Rich Eisen Show whether he would ever play the character again, Driver said, "It's over," before adding, "No more 'Star Wars'" (Variety).
He was talking about The Hunt for Ben Solo, the standalone movie he developed with director Steven Soderbergh, which Disney passed on, and Driver now says he doesn't see it coming back.
What happened to The Hunt for Ben Solo?
Driver and Soderbergh worked on the project for about two years, with a script from Scott Z. Burns and Jules Asner, who writes under the name Rebecca Blunt. Lucasfilm took the finished pitch to Disney, and the studio turned it down (TheWrap).
"We tried to do one more, yeah, but they were like, 'No, he's dead,'" Driver said, pointing to Ben Solo's death at the end of The Rise of Skywalker, and he first revealed the existence of the scrapped movie back in 2025.
Could the Ben Solo movie still happen?
Driver didn't totally rule it out, explaining that Disney could revive the movie "if they wanted to" and that the decision is "not our call," but he still sounded pretty sure that the project is finished. "I think the ship has sailed though," he said.
He also called the fan response "pretty incredible," and he wasn't exaggerating, because after the news broke fans paid for a plane to fly a "Save The Hunt for Ben Solo" banner over Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, and one fan bought a billboard in Times Square.
Is this really the end of Kylo Ren?
My read is that this is as final as an actor can make it without Disney weighing in. Driver clearly still likes the role, but he gave the movie a real shot, the studio said no, and now he's moving on to other projects. That's a fair place to land, even if it stings for the fans who spent real money on planes and billboards. (Ben Solo has now been redeemed, killed and canceled, which is a very busy career.)
Star Wars has a long habit of bringing characters back when nobody expects it, so never say never, but for now Driver is very clearly hanging up the cracked helmet.
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