Adam Driver and Steven Soderbergh’s ‚Star Wars‘ movie was allegedly much further along than we thought before it met the same fate Ben did in ‚Rise of Skywalker.‘
Earlier this week, Adam Driver sent a disturbance through the Force when he revealed The Hunt for Ben Solo, a Star Wars film developed by himself, director Steven Soderbergh, and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, which the actor said was backed by Lucasfilm but ultimately scrapped by Disney executives Bob Iger and Alan Bergman. However, a new report twists the lightsaber in a bit further, alleging that the movie had made significant headway into initial development before it was killed.
Playlist reports that The Hunt for Ben Solo—which would’ve been set after the events of The Rise of Skywalker and resurrected the titular character after he seemingly sacrificed himself to resurrect Rey—purportedly had received an internal green light from Lucasfilm when it was then offered to Disney executives for approval.
What that meant was that the film, allegedly developed under the codename “Quiet Leaves,” had a finalized script in place and was entering early phases of staffing and pre-production planning after Lucasfilm itself had given the studio’s approval. At that point, Disney had already purchased a “beat sheet”—a document providing a broad chronological guideline of the planned events and emotional beats of a story to guide the eventual screenplay—from Soderbergh and his wife, Jules Asner, the latter writing under the pen name Rebecca Blunt.
