Speaking to The Playlist while promoting The Christophers, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Solaris) was asked if he was interested in pursuing The Hunt for Ben Solo following leadership changes at Disney and Lucasfilm, to which he replied: “Nope.”
Soderbergh revealed that Adam Driver, who played fan-favourite Kylo Ren, was the driving force behind the Star Wars project supported by former Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy but vetoed by former Disney CEO Bob Iger:
“Adam and I started talking, and this would have been almost three years ago now. It was strictly Adam saying, ‘I think there’s still somewhere to go with this character.’ That’s how it started. Otherwise, I never in a million years would have found myself in that universe again.
I don’t regret one minute of the time we spent working on that. I felt the work was good. It’s just good for you to be in that room and working on it. It’s like CrossFit—it’s good for you. It’ll have a residual effect that will be unexpected at some point.
As soon as it became apparent, OK, not gonna happen, I sat down and started writing [something else]. It’s like, ‘OK, new scenario, let’s get cracking.’ At a certain point, it’s like complaining about the weather. You just gotta keep moving… Look, if it was gonna happen, it would have happened. It’s that simple.”
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