For many fans of Star Wars They were surprised to hear that Disney blocked a movie about Ben Solo’s redemption, but I think it was for the best.
We have fans Star Wars from around the world exercising their right to comment on Disney’s business strategies. Come on, as always. But lately there is a sector that has lost its mind when learning about one of the projects canceled by Disney and which was not even announced.
Recently, Adam Driver commented that he tried to “resurrect” Ben Solo, aka Kylo Ren, to further his redemption arc and return to the light side during the events in Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker.
The actor explained that he shared the idea with Katleen Kennedythe president of Lucasfilmand worked on it in collaboration with the director Steven Soderbergh for almost two years. So they presented a more solid idea to the Lucasfilm approval panel, which includes the famous Dave Filoni.
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At that meeting, the reception was enthusiastic and unanimous, which made us start thinking Scott Z. Burns to take control of the script. There was, of course, approval from the Disney board, including Bob Iger and Alan Bergman. They did not see and considered that “Ben Solo is dead“, according to the end of Episode IX.
This decision, which was made a few years ago, not the day before yesterday, angered many fans, and some started campaigns.”à la Snyder’s Cut“, with posters, hashtags and all the paraphernalia in an attempt to convince Disney.
What he didn’t quite understand was why. Why do they want another movie related to the sequel trilogy now? You won’t see me agree with Hollywood studio executives very often, but I think Disney did it right this time..
Kylo Ren/Ben Solo is a character ruined by the canon
I love Adam Driver as an actor: he’s proven himself to be completely versatile in a mix of projects, and I think he’s done well as Kylo Ren. And I would have done better if it didn’t depend JJ Abrams and Rian Johnsonwhose little battle to impose his vision ruined the entire narrative of the trilogy, including character development.
And I reserve the right to comment at the end The Rise of Skywalker: I will limit myself to defining it as a failure. But this goes beyond the feeling I have as a fan, what I’m going to present to you as reasons why this film shouldn’t be made, at least at this point, is the vision of a producer.
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The sequel trilogy has its fans, no one doubts that, but is radioactivepure and simple. You have the proof right under your nose: in six years, Lucasfilm has avoided delving into these stories beyond the comics and novels.
Disney is already flipping the coin with Star Wars: Starfighterthe Ryan Gosling film directed by Shawn Leviwhile keeps the announced Rey (Daisy Ridley) film frozen in carboniteone that “would start filming in 2023”. And Rey has one less disadvantage than Ben Solo: she’s not dead in canon.
Okay, in Star Wars The deaths of certain characters (hello, Maul, Palpatine) are very relative and that thread could be pulled, but now is not the time.
I don’t doubt that an idea that Steven Soderbergh likes is interesting and could even work. Of course Andor It was amazing, being focused on a character with so little experience, a well-done story about Ben Solo could be cool.
But if Disney releases a story like this, with how divisive the sequel trilogy was, the box office success that can be achieved is intended to be epic. They get tired of swimming pools like snow white.
Maybe there will come a day when this story can be evaluated, although I would almost ask Lucasfilm to start explore Star Wars to other parts of the melon and leave the Galactic Civil War and the New Republic era alone a good season. So what? The Acolyte It went wrong, but not because of the time it was set, precisely.
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