Daisy Ridley Loves That Fans Went Nuts for Adam Driver's Ben Solo Movie

Back in October, Adam Driver revealed that he pitched a Star Wars movie with Steven Sodeberbergh called The Hunt for Ben Solo that, obviously, never saw the light of day. Considering Lucasfilm’s recent track record of abandoning Star Wars movies left and right, this seemed like it’d just be another blip on the “What Might Have Been” radar. Except fans went freaking nuts.

Shortly after Driver’s reveal, a massive fan campaign sprung into action urging Disney to resurrect The Hunt for Ben Solo. There were billboards, airplanes, you name it, and Daisy Ridley watched all of it happened with glee.

In a new interview with IGN, Ridley confessed that she knew about the project the whole time. More importantly, she was happy to see the fandom so supportively energized instead of it’s, uh, usual temperament.

“I do love when there is a collective of positivity,” she said about the consensus of everyone who seems to want The Hunt for Ben Solo to happen. “The way the internet seems to have rallied to try and get it to happen. I think one), it’s fantastic for us all. It’s good for us to all be united about something in a really positive way. Obviously, everyone knows he was a very popular character, but it was also lovely to think, ‘Wow, people really, really care and want this.’ I just… I like it. I like when people join forces — excuse the pun — from all around the world, all different sorts of people. I just love that the Star Wars fandom is such a huge and gorgeous array of different points of view and different people, and the fact that everyone is really behind this thing, I think, is just sort of lovely, in a time that is so f***ing nuts for probably every single person on this Earth. I think it’s wonderful. So I was surprised, and honestly, I felt joyful about how it went down.”

Considering Daisy Ridley has been repeatedly kicked in the teeth by toxic fans thanks in no small part to Max Landis calling Rey a “Mary Sue” all the way back in 2015, it’s nice to see her still find joy in Star Wars. She whipped a** in The Force Awakens, and I’m sorry, but The Last Jedi was dope. Not sure why they stopped the sequel movies after that, but I’m sure Lucasfilm had a good reason. Sometimes, two is enough. Not everything has to be a trilogy.