“Star Wars” followers have begun a marketing campaign to foyer Disney CEO Bob Iger to convey Adam Driver’s imaginative and prescient for a film to life. Days after a fan employed a aircraft to fly over Disney Studios in California, one other bought a billboard in Instances Sq. in help of the movie.
The billboard in query went up at 1500 Broadway, between forty third and forty fourth over Carlo’s Bake Store and browse, “For Adam. Nobody’s ever actually gone. Hope lives. Ben is alive! #THBS” — a reference to Luke Skywalker’s line in “The Final Jedi,” Driver’s character Ben Solo, and the potential identify of the film, “The Hunt for Ben Solo.”
The particular person behind the billboard is B.D. Neagle, who informed Collider, “I’m only a fan who thought Ben’s story wasn’t completed. I needed to do what I might to help the fandom and everybody connected to ‘The Hunt for Ben Solo.’ The intent was to point out Disney that is what followers truly need. ‘Nobody’s ever actually gone’ I consider, says all of it. If they might convey again Palpatine with one line, there are many methods Ben might return that already match into Star Wars lore.”
Driver first talked about a possible movie in an interview with the Related Press.
“I all the time was inquisitive about doing one other ‘Star Wars,’” he stated. “I had been speaking about doing one other one since 2021. Kathleen (Kennedy) had reached out. I all the time stated: With a terrific director and a terrific story, I’d be there in a second. I cherished that character and cherished taking part in him.”
Driver even took his thought to Steven Soderbergh, who was inquisitive about directing. He and Rebecca Blunt outlined the story and pitched it to Kennedy in addition to Lucasfilm vice chairman Carrie Beck and Lucasfilm chief inventive officer Dave Filoni. That group additionally preferred the concept, and Scott Z. Burns got here on board to write down a script.
Sadly, Iger and Disney Leisure co-chairman Alan Bergman weren’t as enthusiastic.
“We introduced the script to Lucasfilm. They cherished the concept. They completely understood our angle and why we had been doing it,” Driver stated. “We took it to Bob Iger and Alan Bergman and so they stated no. They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that.”
“It was referred to as ‘The Hunt for Ben Solo’ and it was actually cool,” Driver added. “However it’s no extra, so I can lastly discuss it.”
