{"id":401665,"date":"2026-01-11T20:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/401665\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T20:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:25:10","slug":"star-wars-fans-havent-given-up-on-ben-solos-cinematic-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/401665\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Star Wars’ Fans Haven’t Given Up on Ben Solo’s Cinematic Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, we learned we could\u2019ve had a\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0movie focused on Adam Driver\u2019s Ben Solo<\/a> in the aftermath of\u00a0Rise of Skywalker. Titled The Hunt for Ben Solo<\/a>, it\u2019d have had Steven Soderbergh as director and writer, which on its face sounds like a movie fans would dig. But Disney killed that idea, in part because they felt Ben pretty definitively died<\/a>, and fans have since stewed in resentment for what can\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

In the months since, some have taken it upon themselves to get Disney to reverse its decision. Recently, IGN<\/a> interviewed Brianna Johns, a writer and voice actor leading the charge in this endeavor. Where Driver and Soderbergh have generally accepted the film\u2019s fate and moved on, Johns feels news of Hunt\u2019s\u00a0cancellation \u201ctore through the very fabric of the franchise. The Hunt For Ben Solo reignited a spark within us all and brought us together. [\u2026] Now fans of all ages from around the globe have mobilized for a common goal: to bring Ben home and continue his saga.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a large scale, Johns and her cohorts have created \u201cMissing\u201d posters and bought ad space on Times Square billboards calling for the Ben Solo movie to be greenlit. Addition efforts include a standard petition, sending letters to Disney, and even a fan meetup at the end of the month\u2014as she told IGN, their plan is to be \u201cso good [Disney] can\u2019t ignore us,\u201d and the hope is for more fans to join them in getting this effort off the ground.<\/p>\n

This play to make the\u00a0Ben Solo\u00a0movie happen is one of many fan-driven efforts to reach out to corporations that cropped up throughout 2025. The\u00a0Avatar\u00a0fandom is also fighting for a movie to come out\u2014specifically bringing The Legend of Aang<\/a> back to theaters after it was kicked down Paramount+\u2014and more recently, the\u00a0Stranger Things\u00a0community\u2019s hope for a secret ninth episode<\/a> that concludes the just-ended series in a theoretically better fashion<\/a>. The latter didn\u2019t pan out, but the other two are currently ongoing.<\/p>\n

Who knows if fans will get what they want when it comes to Ben, though. They may not be giving up on this film, but Disney sure seems ready to move on from anything directly connected<\/a> to the Sequel Trilogy so it can go and chart a new path<\/a> for the franchise.<\/p>\n

Update (1\/11\/2026 @ 11:52 AM ET): This article has been changed to correct the interviewee\u2019s surname, and we regret the error.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, we learned we could\u2019ve had a\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0movie focused on Adam Driver\u2019s Ben Solo in the aftermath…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,5295,137073],"class_list":{"0":"post-401665","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-star-wars","11":"tag-the-hunt-for-ben-solo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}