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[Unproduced Star Wars movie] The Hunt for Ben Solo Adam Driver and Steven Soderbergh spent two years developing a SW film that was ultimately nixed by Disney. Driver: “I had been talking about doing another one since 2021. Kathleen (Kennedy) had reached out. I always said: With a..."

"...great director and a great story, I’d be there in a second. I loved that character and loved playing him.” Driver: "We presented the script to Lucasfilm. They loved the idea. They totally understood our angle and why we were doing it. We took it to Bob Iger and Alan Bergman and they said no."

"They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that.” A Star Wars movie by Steven Soderbergh, written by Scott Z. Burns, with Adam Driver, post SW9. And they said no. 🤯

“We wanted to be judicial about how to spend money and be economical with it, and do it for less than most but in the same spirit of what those movies are, which is handmade and character-driven,” Driver says. “‘Empire Strikes Back’ being, in my opinion, the standard of what those movies were."

Soderbergh also wrote in a statement to The Associated Press, “I really enjoyed making the movie in my head. I’m just sorry the fans won’t get to see it.”

"The Playlist can now confirm that the film advanced far beyond development—it had a completed script, the full creative stamp of approval from Lucasfilm, including Kathleen Kennedy, and was greenlit internally before being canceled by Disney executives Bob Iger and Alan Bergman."

I can't wait to read this script one day, if only because it's Soderbergh and Burns. (I don't really care how Ben would be alive, it's SW, there are somehow 50 ways)(maybe as Spider-Ben ☝️)

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To be fair, this is always the case with Star Wars productions. Whether you like the movies, shows, or games or not, the entire design process is always fascinating and magnificent. Sick.👌 But I can't wait to learn more about all this. Abandoned projects are never abandoned for me. 😁

It’s him btw bsky.app/profile/bitc...