This isn’t the spin-off you’re looking for: why Disney was right to ditch Adam Driver’s Ben Solo feature

<p>A Star Wars movie resurrecting young Kylo Ren was never a good idea, even if Steven Soderbergh was attached to direct</p><p>Disney gets a lot of stick when it comes to Star Wars. Ever since <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/oct/30/disney-lucasfilm-star-wars-deal">the Mouse House bought Lucasfilm for $4bn in 2012</a>, there have been those who blame the studio for turning George Lucas’s mythic space opera into an endlessly respawning content farm.</p><p>But let’s give them credit where credit’s due: according to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/adam-driver-star-wars-soderbergh-jarmusch-4e08164d0419759f1b5b50d69864975d">a new Associated Press interview with Adam Driver</a>, Disney did at least have the presence of mind to politely decline a film whose entire premise would have been enough to make Darth Vader himself force-choke the pitch meeting from beyond the grave. Yes, it is (or would have been) Ben Solo: The Movie, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Driver as the resurrected Sith-Jedi protagonist of that oh-so-wonderful entry, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/24/star-wars-disney-adam-driver-ben-solo-spin-off-steven-soderbergh">Continue reading...</a>