Tag: The Hunt for Ben Solo

Maul - Shadow Lord, The Hunt for Ben Solo

In a twist of irony, Disney’s next big Star Wars show is all about a character who once thought dead – even after rejecting The Hunt for Ben Solo for that very reason

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In a twist of irony, Disney’s next big Star Wars show is all about a character who once thought dead – even after rejecting The Hunt for Ben Solo for that very reason

The next big Star Wars project is the animated series Maul - Shadow Lord, which premieres on Disney+ on April 6. I'm very excited about this show. But it does seem to me a bit ironic, at the same time, that the big project at the moment is a story all about someone who very [...]

The Hunt for Ben Solo

Steven Soderbergh calls Disney’s decision not to move forward with The Hunt for Ben Solo “insane”, and he’s absolutely right

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Steven Soderbergh calls Disney’s decision not to move forward with The Hunt for Ben Solo “insane”, and he’s absolutely right

By the time Lucasfilm brought the proposed The Hunt for Ben Solo movie to Disney for approval, they already had: an Academy Award-winning director signed on to direct, in Steven Soderbergh an Academy Award-nominated actor agreeing to return to his fan favorite Star Wars role, in Adam Driver a completed screenplay that is the most [...]

The Hunt for Ben Solo

With Alan Bergman passed over for Disney CEO job, could there still be hope for The Hunt for Ben Solo?

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With Alan Bergman passed over for Disney CEO job, could there still be hope for The Hunt for Ben Solo?

Last fall, news broke that Adam Driver was all set to return to the Star Wars franchise as Ben Solo, only for the project to get shot down by Disney executives. Driver worked with acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh on the project, titled The Hunt for Ben Solo. Scott Z. Burns was hired to write the [...]

The Hunt for Ben Solo

Since Disney executives lack imagination, here are five possible explanations for how Ben Solo could return from the dead

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Since Disney executives lack imagination, here are five possible explanations for how Ben Solo could return from the dead

By now you have surely heard the news that Adam Driver was developing a Star Wars movie that would see the return of Ben Solo, only to have it shot down by Disney executives for one very simple reason: they didn't see how Ben Solo could still be alive. On the surface, that is quite [...]

Future Films, The Hunt for Ben Solo

Disney rejecting The Hunt for Ben Solo might explain why Lucasfilm has had trouble getting the script right for their Rey movie in development

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Disney rejecting The Hunt for Ben Solo might explain why Lucasfilm has had trouble getting the script right for their Rey movie in development

By now news that Adam Driver was developing a Star Wars movie that would see the return of Ben Solo from the dead, The Hunt for Ben Solo, has taken the internet by storm. Though the film was fully backed by Lucasfilm brain trust with a finished script, director, and star all attached, Disney shot [...]

Future Films, Lucasfilm, The Hunt for Ben Solo

Disney apparently doesn’t want to do a Ben Solo movie, but has no problem bringing others back from the dead

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Disney apparently doesn’t want to do a Ben Solo movie, but has no problem bringing others back from the dead

Adam Driver spent two years developing a Star Wars movie with director Steven Sodenbergh, script-writer Scott Z. Burns, and the Lucasfilm brain trust of Kathleen Kennedy, Carrie Beck, and Dave Filoni, only to have Disney executives Bob Iger and Alan Bergman kill it. The reasoning? "They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive," Driver told [...]

Future Films, The Hunt for Ben Solo

Adam Driver was secretly developing a Star Wars film for two years with Lucasfilm, titled The Hunt for Ben Solo, only to have it shot down by Disney

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Adam Driver was secretly developing a Star Wars film for two years with Lucasfilm, titled The Hunt for Ben Solo, only to have it shot down by Disney

Adam Driver dropped a pretty massive Star Wars tidbit in an interview with the Associated Press, released today: he was quietly working on developing a Star Wars film for two years before Disney ultimately killed the project. In the interview, which was in promotion of Driver's upcoming film Father Mother Sister Brother, the actor known [...]