{"id":285417,"date":"2025-11-15T04:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285417\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:23:10","slug":"star-wars-ben-solo-film-campaign-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285417\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Star Wars&#8221; Ben Solo Film Campaign Intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/star-wars-ben-solo-film-campaign-intensifies.jpg\" data-caption=\"Lucasfilm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/star-wars-ben-solo-film-campaign-intensifies.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"star-wars-ben-solo-film-campaign-intensifies\"\/><\/a>Lucasfilm<\/p>\n<p>The other week, following news breaking about Steven Soderbergh\u2019s rejected \u201cThe Hunt for Ben Solo\u201d film, a targeted fan campaign emerged trying to get Disney to reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>As revealed at the time, Soderbergh, actor Adam Driver and Lucasfilm were all ready to make the film, which would\u2019ve taken place after the events of \u201cStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,\u201d but Disney\u2019s top brass (namely Bob Iger and Alan Bergman) rejected it.<\/p>\n<p>Fan efforts began soon after with rallies in New York City and Los Angeles, letters and petitions popping up, even a plane being flown over Disney\u2019s Burbank lot with the message \u2018Save The Hunt for Ben Solo\u2019 in late October.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/the-hunt-for-ben-solo-cancelled-adam-driver-star-wars-movie-rian-johnson-take-my-money\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Collider<\/a> while promoting \u201cWake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery\u201d due in cinemas and on Netflix shortly, \u201cStar Wars: The Last Jedi\u201d director Rian Johnson made a passionate plea for the film:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake my money! I only know what I read about it online. I didn\u2019t know anything about it, but who knows how things are developed these days? But man, I will watch Driver in anything, but I would love to see him play that character again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outlet also reports that another plane with a banner was flown over Disney Burbank in California this week with the message: \u201cShareholders want The Hunt for Ben Solo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>THR adds that people have been posting flyers made up like a \u2018Missing Person\u2019 poster of Adam Driver as Kylo Ren with the hashtag #THEHUNTFORBENSOLO. One impassioned fan even went as far as to rent a billboard in Times Square, which read: \u201cFor Adam. No one\u2019s ever really gone. Hope lives. Ben is alive! #THBS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next film in the franchise is \u201cThe Mandalorian and Grogu\u201d which hits cinemas on May 22nd 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm The other week, following news breaking about Steven Soderbergh\u2019s rejected \u201cThe Hunt for Ben Solo\u201d film, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-285417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bigslider","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}