There’s always the theme of hope in the Star Wars franchise, and with the brand landing its lowest grossing live-action feature in the franchise with The Mandalorian and Grogu ($345M WW), fans still wanna know: is there any shot in the galaxy that Disney/Luscasfilm would re-consider an Adam Driver-led The Hunt for Ben Solo project?
Deadine caught up with Lucasfilm co-President and Mandalorian and Grogu co-writer and producer Dave Filoni at D23 and asked whether Kylo Ren would ever make a comeback.
“It’s not here, you won’t find it here,” said Filoni, “The force is not with us in that regard; I love the love you feel for it.”
Ever since the news broke last fall that former CEO Bob Iger and Disney Entertainment co-Chairman Alan Bergman deep-sided Driver and director Steven Soderbergh’s development of a Kylo Ren movie, a fervent fanbase arose rallying the project’s resurrection. The Hunt for Ben Solo was set to take place in the events following Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, and put the former Kylo Ren on a redemptive path.
After an earnings call last November, a plane with the banner “Shareholders Want The Hunt for Ben Solo,” buzzed over Disney’s Burbank lot. Other stunts followed, led by the Save Ben Solo org: In March, professional skydiver Brenn Richards jumped out of a plane tied to Toronto Comic-Con with a flag tied to her that read “Save the Hunt for Ben Solo”. She also held a note as for Disney’s new CEO as she plummeted to Earth: “Josh D’Amaro, Skydiving is risky! but…The Hunt for Ben Solo isn’t!”.
During the Mandalorian and Grogu LA premiere in May, the fan org hired a digital truck that drove around Hollywood, and again outside the El Capitan on opening night, May 21. The truck returned to San Diego Comic-Con last month as well. All of this followed another professional skydiver jumping for the campaign in Times Square.
Digital billboard truck rallying for Ben Solo movie during ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ May Hollywood premiere.
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Iger and Bergman’s axing a Kylo Ren project stemmed from the antagonist being dead in 2019’s Star Wars, Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. It just didn’t make sense to them that he’d continue to live thereafter. This despite such characters as Darth Maul, Boba Fett and Emperor Palpatine being revived after their deaths in the Star Wars canon. Driver first made it known to the world that the project existed and was turned-down in an October 2025 AP interview.
But, for fans, when it comes to the future of Kylo Ren on the big screen, to quote Pedro Pascal’s Mandalorian, “This is the way.”
The big shocking, but not so shocking news last night at D23 is that Driver is back in business with Disney, just not on the Star Wars side, rather the MCU where he’ll play X-Men baddie Mister Sinister in the next reboot of the franchise.
