{"id":519140,"date":"2026-04-08T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519140\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:58:09","slug":"director-steven-soderbergh-rules-out-returning-to-his-ben-solo-star-wars-project-nope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519140\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Steven Soderbergh Rules Out Returning to His Ben Solo Star Wars Project: \u2018Nope\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh has made it quite clear that he\u2019s not interested in returning to work on his abandoned Star Wars project, The Hunt For Ben Solo, despite leadership changes at both Lucasfilm and Disney hinting a second life for the rejected project could be a possibility<\/a>, and Star Wars superfans still trying to persuade Disney to make it<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cNope,\u201d was Soderbergh\u2019s one-word answer, as reported by The Playlist.<\/a><\/p>\n

Soderbergh, who picked up an Oscar for 2000\u2019s Traffic and directed Out of Sight, Contagion, and the Ocean\u2019s trilogy, went on to clarify the idea for Star Wars: The Hunt for Ben Solo came entirely from star Adam Driver himself, and that he doesn\u2019t regret \u201cone minute of the time we spent working on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt the work was good,\u201d said Soderbergh. \u201cIt\u2019s just good for you to be in that room and working on it. It\u2019s like CrossFit \u2013 it\u2019s good for you. It\u2019ll have a residual effect that will be unexpected at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He did, however, stress that he had moved on from the project, noting that \u201cif it was gonna happen, it would have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s that simple,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as it became apparent, okay, not gonna happen, I sat down and started writing [something else]. It\u2019s like, \u2018Okay, new scenario, let\u2019s get cracking.\u2019 At a certain point, it\u2019s like complaining about the weather. You just gotta keep moving.\u201d<\/p>\n

News that Disney had been kicking the tyres on a Ben Solo movie starring Adam Driver first emerged in October 2025, when the Kylo Ren actor revealed that the project had been in the works for over two years<\/a>. The project was eventually rejected, and is reportedly the only completed script to date that Disney has turned down for a Lucasfilm project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hardcore fans of the Star Wars sequels have been striving to have the project resurrected ever since<\/a>, even going as far as to fly \u201cSave The Hunt for Ben Solo\u201d banners<\/a> over Walt Disney Studios in California. Earlier this year, departing Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy called the Ben Solo script \u201cjust great\u201d<\/a> and cryptically noted that \u201canything\u2019s a possibility if somebody\u2019s willing to take a risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luke is a Senior Editor on the IGN reviews team. You can track him down on Bluesky @mrlukereilly to ask him things about stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh has made it quite clear that he\u2019s not interested in returning to work…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}