Adam Driver no longer expects to make The Hunt for Ben Solo, the Star Wars movie he developed with Steven Soderbergh. “It’s over,” he said, according to TheWrap. “No more Star Wars. We tried.”
The actor, 42, addressed the project during a November 4 appearance on The Rich Eisen Show, where he was promoting Paper Tiger. Eisen asked whether he expected to play Kylo Ren again.
Driver did leave open the possibility of reconsidering if the studio revived the film. “If they wanted to, fine, but it’s not our call,” he said, as Entertainment Weekly reported. He no longer expects that to happen.
Driver first disclosed the abandoned project in an October 2025 Associated Press interview. Discussions about another Star Wars movie had begun in 2021, he said.
Disney’s Objection Was That Ben Solo Had Died
The proposed story would have followed the events of The Rise of Skywalker, which ended with Ben Solo’s death in 2019. Driver recalled that as the objection he received. Eisen countered that fiction could accommodate surprises, joking about the franchise’s revelation that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker’s father.
Soderbergh and writer Rebecca Blunt developed the story before Scott Z. Burns wrote the screenplay. Driver said Lucasfilm, including Kathleen Kennedy, supported it, but Disney executives Bob Iger and Alan Bergman declined. Representatives for Disney and Lucasfilm declined to comment for the original AP report.
During the new interview, Driver described roughly two years of serious work on the project. He still praised the completed screenplay and the collaboration, rather than suggesting the filmmakers had lost interest in their own story.
Fans Took Their Campaign to Disney’s Lot and Times Square
a plane in the sky & a billboard in times square, we’re serious about getting ben solo back #TheHuntForBenSolo pic.twitter.com/XhXAAx0dqy
biscooti🍪 (@adamdriverss) October 25, 2025
On October 23, 2025, fans paid for a plane to fly a banner over Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, urging the company to save the film. Two days later, the campaign reached a digital billboard in Times Square. Variety, citing Collider’s reporting, documented the sign above Carlo’s Bake Shop at 1500 Broadway.
The effort continued into this year. The campaign’s organizers recorded another Times Square billboard on October 20, 2026, marking a year since Driver’s disclosure. Their archive also documents digital billboard trucks at Hollywood events and San Diego Comic-Con.
Driver called the response “pretty incredible.” He told Eisen he had not anticipated supporters buying advertising or arranging flights over Disney property, and said he appreciated what they had done.
Soderbergh Had Already Said He Wasn’t Pursuing a Revival
In an April 7 interview with The Playlist, Soderbergh was asked whether leadership changes at Disney and Lucasfilm might persuade him to revisit the project. His answer was “Nope.” He added, “Look, if it was gonna happen, it would have happened. It’s that simple.”
The director said he did not regret the development work, describing the collaboration as creatively useful even without a finished film. Once it became clear the project would not proceed, he began writing something else.
Driver, meanwhile, is keeping the screenplay’s secrets. When Eisen asked whether he could finally explain what the movie would have been about, the actor declined: “No, I think I’ll just keep that to myself.”