After Adam Driver revealed<\/a> that Disney rejected a Star Wars<\/em> spinoff centered on Ben Solo, fans of the character launched a full-scale campaign to bring the project back to life.<\/p>\n The movement, known online as #TheHuntForBenSolo for the title of the rejected script, quickly moved beyond social media. Fans began buying out billboards, plane banners, and even posting “missing” flyers outside Disney executives\u2019 homes.<\/p>\n Driver told the Associated Press<\/a><\/em> that he spent two years developing a film titled The Hunt for Ben Solo<\/em> with director Steven Soderbergh and writers Rebecca Blunt and Scott Z. Burns.<\/p>\n The film, set after The Rise of Skywalker<\/em>, had received support from Lucasfilm leadership before being rejected by Disney\u2019s top executives. “We presented the script to Lucasfilm. They loved the idea,” Driver said. “We took it to Bob Iger and Alan Bergman, and they said no. They didn\u2019t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was that.”<\/p>\n Shortly after the interview dropped on Oct 20, a group of fans paid for a plane<\/a> to fly over Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. The banner read, “Save #TheHuntForBenSolo.” Photos of the stunt spread rapidly across social media.<\/p>\n Then, only days later, another fan took things even further. B.D. Neagle, a longtime Star Wars<\/a><\/em> enthusiast, purchased a digital billboard in New York City\u2019s Times Square.<\/p>\n The message flashed every 28 minutes above Carlo\u2019s Bake Shop at 1500 Broadway. It read, “For Adam. No one’s ever really gone. Hope lives. Ben is alive! #THBS.”<\/p>\nFrom planes to posters: a fandom on a mission<\/h2>\n