Daisy Ridley has lauded the efforts of fans campaigning to save a Star Wars sequel, The Hunt For Ben Solo, that was scrapped.

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In October, Adam Driver made headlines after revealing in an interview that he and director Steven Soderbergh had written and pitched a new film in the Star Wars Universe, titled The Hunt For Ben Solo. The story would have brought his character Ben Solo, aka Kylo Ren, back from the dead. 

“I always was interested in doing another Star Wars,” he told Associated Press. “I had been talking about doing another one since 2021.” He called it “one of the coolest (expletive) scripts I had ever been a part of” and said that Lucasfilm were excited about the project, but ultimately executives at parent company Disney turned it down. “They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that,” he explained.

Fans hoping to see that project make it to the big screen executed some creative stunts to get their position heard. On October 23, Collider reported that a plane had been flying over Disney Studios in California with a banner reading: “Save #TheHuntForBenSolo”.

a plane in the sky & a billboard in times square, we’re serious about getting ben solo back #TheHuntForBenSolo pic.twitter.com/XhXAAx0dqy

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