News Star Wars The Hunt for Ben Solo: Lucasfilm Reportedly Greenlit Star Wars Script Before Disney CEO Canceled It But somehow, Palpatine returned. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on October 27, 2025 Credit: Lucasfilm Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Lucasfilm Adam Driver recently revealed that he and director Steven Soderbergh wanted to make a Kylo Ren movie called The Hunt for Ben Solo, which would be set after the events of The Rise of Skywalker. The news got fans excited, even prompting a billboard campaign to bring the movie into existence. Subsequent reporting has revealed, however, that the movie was set to go into production with a completed script, and all of Lucasfilm leadership was reportedly on board until Disney senior executives nixed it. According to The Playlist, The Hunt for Ben Solo had a completed script by Scott Z. Burns, who was paid in the low seven figures for the job. Lucasfilm execs Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Filoni, and Carrie Beck were all involved and signed off on the project, and it was entering early prep and staffing while it was on the desk of Disney CEO Bob Iger and Alan Bergman. Iger and Bergman, however, nixed it. “They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that,” Driver told AP News. And somehow, Palpatine returned?! Palpatine??? Returned??? And yet the idea of Ben Solo not dying in The Rise of Skywalker was too much? It doesn’t track with Star Wars logic, but that’s apparently what happened. I dunno. According to The Playlist, Bergman, who Iger is grooming to take over the CEO position, has fallen out of favor internally based on his handling of “several high-profile initiatives” and that “his standing within Disney’s succession plan has reportedly weakened.” Soderbergh also reportedly confirmed via Bluesky (though the account is unverified) that The Hunt for Ben Solo was the first script that was completed and got a greenlight from Lucasfilm that Disney subsequently rejected. Lucasfilm designer Bobby McKenna also posted on X that he worked on a design sprint for the project and that “the movie would have been sick. rip.” RIP indeed. [end-mark] The post <i>The Hunt for Ben Solo</i>: Lucasfilm Reportedly Greenlit <i>Star Wars</i> Script Before Disney CEO Canceled It appeared first on Reactor.