What does Daisy Ridley think about her “Star Wars” co-star Adam Driver revealing the scrapped standalone movie he and Steven Soderbergh wanted to make, “The Hunt For Ben Solo”? According to Variety (via IGN), the actress had heard rumors about the project, but most of all, she’s happy to see “Star Wars” fans unite in support of it being made.
“I knew a piece of it. I heard rumblings,” Ridley said in a new interview. “I have lots of friends who are crew, so things always travel like that. But, whoa! When the story came out, no, I was like, ‘Oh, my God!’ And it was him that said it, right? It was funny because, like, ‘Oh, wow, Adam is saying it,’ and that’s the big surprise of the year.”
Apparently, Driver and Soderbergh had developed “The Hunt For Ben Solo” for two years before Disney nixed the film entirely. Plot details remain unknown, but the film would’ve taken place after the event of “The Rise Of Skywalker,” with Soderbergh doing the script with “Logan Lucky” co-writer Rebecca Blunt and Scott Z. Burns, who’s penned several of the director’s projects over the years. Driver praised the script Soderbergh had cooked up, comparing its “handmade and character-driven” aspects to “The Empire Strikes Back.” Lucasfilm execs Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Filoni, and Cary Beck felt similarly, but other Disney higher-ups like CEO Bob Iger didn’t, and scuttled the movie entirely.
Naturally, “Star Wars” fans had an intense response to the news about “The Hunt For Ben Solo,” but Ridley appreciates the collective rallying cry in support of the project. “I do love when there is a collective of positivity,” the actress continued. “The way the internet seems to have rallied to try and get it to happen. It’s fantastic for us all. It’s good for us to all be united about something in a really positive way. Obviously, everyone knows he was a very popular character, but it was also lovely to think, ‘Wow, people really, really care and want this.’ I just… I like it.”
“I like when people join forces — excuse the pun — from all around the world, all different sorts of people,” Ridley went on. “I just love that the “Star Wars” fandom is such a huge and gorgeous array of different points of view and different people, and the fact that everyone is really behind this thing, I think, is just sort of lovely, in a time that is so f*cking nuts for probably every single person on this Earth. I think it’s wonderful. So I was surprised, and honestly, I felt joyful about how it went down.”
So will “The Hunt For Ben Solo” ever get made? Even with the immense fan support, don’t count on it. Lucasfilm’s plans for the “Star Wars” franchise have shifted several times since Soderbergh’s film was axed. Now its future goes through “The Mandalorian & Grogu,” in theaters May 22, 2026, and Shawn Levy’s “Star Wars: Starfighter,” which bows on May 28, 2027. And further ahead, Ridley’s Rey will return in a new film about the character restarting a new Jedi order, although that one could get caught in development hell, like so many other previously announced “Star Wars” projects. As per usual with Lucasfilm, “Star Wars” fans must wait and see how things develop.
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