D isney gets a lot of stick when it comes to Star Wars. Ever since the Mouse House bought Lucasfilm for $4bn in 2012 , there have been those who blame the studio for turning George Lucas’s mythic space opera into an endlessly respawning content farm.

But let’s give them credit where credit’s due: according to a new Associated Press interview with Adam Driver , Disney did at least have the presence of mind to politely decline a film whose entire premise would have been enough to make Darth Vader himself force-choke the pitch meeting from beyond the grave. Yes, it is (or would have been) Ben Solo: The Movie, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Driver as the resurrected Sith-Jedi protagonist of that oh-so-wonderful entry, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Yes, Driver really does

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