No More Star Wars: Adam Driver Says Kylo Ren Won’t Return

Adam Driver has closed the door on playing Kylo Ren again, and the reason is not some complicated Hollywood mystery. Disney said no to a finished idea that Lucasfilm liked, and Driver says he is moving on. Driver appeared on The Rich Eisen Show and was asked whether he thought he would ever return to Star Wars. His answer was blunt. “Yeah, it’s over,” he said. “No more Star Wars.” Driver had wanted to make one more movie centered on Ben Solo, the character who becomes Kylo Ren. He developed the project with director Steven Soderbergh. According to Driver, the team worked on it for years and brought in writers Scott Burns and Rebecca Blunt. He described the finished screenplay as “really good” and said the group believed in it. Lucasfilm reportedly liked the pitch too. Driver said the studio understood the angle and why they wanted to tell the story. Then the script went to Disney executives Bob Iger and Alan Bergman, and that is where it stopped. “They said no,” Driver explained. “They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive.” Ben Solo died in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and Disney apparently was not willing to find a way around that ending. Kylo and Rey lightsaber duel…again Drive...