Star Wars fans are not willing to give up on Disney ditching The Hunt For Ben Solo with more billboards in Times Square on January 3rd & 5th, right above the Pele store and in close proximity to the flagship Disney Store, asking for the company to reverse their decision. The billboards were designed and paid for by Brianna Johns, writer, voice actor, and avid Star Wars fan.
Both billboards featured Ben’s silhouette with the phrase, “May 2026 renew hope in the galaxy and bring him home,” as well as the hashtag #thehuntforbensolo, with the latest also including the campaign’s website.
It’s primarily the work of Brianna Johns, writer, voice actor, and self-confessed “avid” Star Wars fan. Johns told IGN The Hunt For Ben Solo fan campaign has a few hundred active fans on its Discord server, but insisted “the desire for this film’s fruition is alive and well fandom-wide.” Johns pointed out that over 7,100 people have signed the petition on Change.org since its creation in October, when Kylo Ren / Ben Solo actor Adam Driver dropped the news about his work with Steven Soderbergh to continue Ben’s story. “The news was the catalyst for my missing posters and why I plastered them around LA,” Johns explained. “Since then, they’ve been seen all around the world.”
Late last year, Driver dropped a bombshell to the Associated Press that he’d spent the last few years developing The Hunt for Ben Solo. The Lucasfilm-approved but Bob Iger-nixed direct follow-up to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was confirmed by attached director Steven Soderbergh, and on multiple occasions the fanbase has hired planes to do fly-overs of the Walt Disney Studio lot in Burbank to rally support — something Rey Skywalker actress Daisy Ridley has responded positively to.
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