Since Adam Driver was let slip in October, Disney has canceled a plotline star wars The film, which focuses on his character Ben Solo, fans of the series were somewhat upset that the studio did not greenlight the project.
But no one can be as frustrated as director Steven Soderbergh, who says he wasted nearly three years working on the script for his new film. Searching for Ben Solo (Which Driver described as “one of the most amazing scripts I’ve ever been a part of”).
In a new interview, Soderbergh was asked about outgoing Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy describing the script as “fantastic” last month. Driver had previously said that while Lucasfilm “loved” their film, Disney CEO Bob Iger and co-president Alan Bergman rejected the project.
“It wasn’t surprising [Kennedy] Soderbergh said in an interview Your mag. “We were all frustrated. You know, it was two and a half years of freelancing for me and Adam W [writer] Rebecca Blunt. When Adam and I discussed him talking about it publicly, I said, “Look, don’t write an op-ed or speculate why.” Just say what happened, because all we know is what happened. The stated reason was: “We don’t believe Ben Solo could be alive.” And that was all we were told. And so there’s nothing you can do about it, you know, except move on.
Soderbergh continued, “I made the movie in my head, and I felt bad that no one else would get to see it. I thought the conversation was going to be quite practical — where do they go, how much does this cost? And I had a really good answer for that. But it never got to that point. It’s crazy. We’re all very frustrated.”
Driver’s character Ben Solo was killed off at the end of 2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Killing off a character is certainly a good reason not to create a sequel centered around that character, but it’s also an issue that one would think would be discussed before Soderbergh and Driver spent years developing the script (which raises, once again, the question, “Is Disney bad at… star wars? “).
The comments come on the heels of a new trailer for the first part star wars movie in seven years, The Mandalorian and Groguwhich brings the hit Disney+ series to the big screen in May.
