Overview
- Adam Driver said on Thursday that he is finished with the Star Wars franchise and will not return as Kylo Ren after the studio declined the project he had helped develop.
- Driver and director Steven Soderbergh worked for years with writers Scott Burns and Rebecca Blunt on a script billed as a direct continuation of The Rise of Skywalker focused on Ben Solo's redemption.
- Lucasfilm and The Walt Disney Company executives, including Bob Iger and Alan Bergman, reviewed the pitch and declined to greenlight the film, saying they did not see a way to bring the character back.
- Driver said he would technically be open to returning if the studio revived the project but that the choice is not his and he thinks it is probably too late, and Soderbergh has described the decision as a major disappointment.
- Fans have launched a visible campaign called 'Salven La caza de Ben Solo' with protests, billboards and a plane over Disney's Burbank studios, but there is no sign the company will reverse its decision and the creators face lost years of unpaid development work.