Director Steven Soderbergh Rules Out Returning to His Ben Solo Star Wars Project: ‘Nope’

Academy Award-winning manager Steven Soderbergh has made it rather wide that he’s not funny successful returning to enactment connected his abandoned Star Wars project, The Hunt For Ben Solo, contempt enactment changes astatine some Lucasfilm and Disney hinting a 2nd beingness for the rejected task could beryllium a possibility, and Star Wars superfans inactive trying to transportation Disney to marque it.

“Nope,” was Soderbergh’s one-word answer, arsenic reported by The Playlist.

Soderbergh, who picked up an Oscar for 2000’s Traffic and directed Out of Sight, Contagion, and the Ocean’s trilogy, went connected to clarify the thought for Star Wars: The Hunt for Ben Solo came wholly from prima Adam Driver himself, and that helium doesn’t regret “one infinitesimal of the clip we spent moving connected that.”

“I felt the enactment was good,” said Soderbergh. “It’s conscionable bully for you to beryllium successful that country and moving connected it. It’s similar CrossFit – it’s bully for you. It’ll person a residual effect that volition beryllium unexpected astatine immoderate point.”

He did, however, accent that helium had moved connected from the project, noting that “if it was gonna happen, it would person happened.”

“It’s that simple,” helium said.

“As soon arsenic it became apparent, okay, not gonna happen, I sat down and started penning [something else]. It’s like, ‘Okay, caller scenario, let’s get cracking.’ At a definite point, it’s similar complaining astir the weather. You conscionable gotta support moving.”

News that Disney had been kicking the tyres connected a Ben Solo movie starring Adam Driver archetypal emerged successful October 2025, erstwhile the Kylo Ren histrion revealed that the task had been successful the works for implicit 2 years. The task was yet rejected, and is reportedly the lone completed publication to day that Disney has turned down for a Lucasfilm project.

Hardcore fans of the Star Wars sequels person been striving to person the task resurrected ever since, adjacent going arsenic acold arsenic to alert “Save The Hunt for Ben Solo” banners implicit Walt Disney Studios successful California. Earlier this year, departing Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy called the Ben Solo publication “just great” and cryptically noted that “anything’s a anticipation if somebody’s consenting to instrumentality a risk.”

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