Overview
- At D23 on Saturday, Lucasfilm co‑president Dave Filoni told reporters “it’s not here” and said “we’re not making that picture right now,” signaling there was no announcement or immediate plan for the film.
- Adam Driver, director Steven Soderbergh and writer Rebecca Blunt developed the story over roughly two years and Contagion writer Scott Z. Burns later worked on the screenplay.
- Driver has said Disney executives Bob Iger and Alan Bergman rejected the pitch because they could not reconcile how Ben Solo would be alive after The Rise of Skywalker.
- Fans mounted a high‑profile Save Ben Solo campaign with plane banners, skydiving stunts, mobile billboards and festival appearances, and the project drew public praise from some Lucasfilm figures including Kathleen Kennedy.
- Driver’s casting as Mister Sinister in Marvel’s X‑Men reboot underscores his continued relationship with Disney and makes a near‑term Ben Solo revival unlikely even though Filoni stopped short of ruling it out forever.