What Unimaginable Timing for ‘Star Wars’ to Publish Ben Solo’s Finest Clip

Oh, now they’re just trolling us.

Wednesday morning, seemingly out of nowhere, the official Star Wars YouTube channel posted an official clip from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker known as “Rey and Kylo Ren vs. Palpatine.” You understand, it’s the clip from the top of the film the place Rey and Ben lastly group as much as combat Palpatine and his goons. Principally, the most effective a part of an otherwise disappointing movie—and the scene the place Adam Driver lastly will get to be the son of Han and Leia all of us dreamed of seeing.

Clearly, the clip is a giant spoiler, so posting it properly after the movie’s launch is smart. However you don’t publish it SIX YEARS AFTER THE FILM’S RELEASE AND THE SAME WEEK NEWS BROKE THAT DISNEY REJECTED A FILM THAT WOULD’VE BROUGHT ADAM DRIVER AS BEN SOLO BACK. Right here’s the clip earlier than we proceed.

For anybody who might have been within the Sarlacc all week, in a new interview, Adam Driver revealed that just a few years again he’d recruited Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh to helm a post-Rise of Skywalker movie that will’ve dove deeper into Ben Solo. The Hunt for Ben Solo even had a script, by frequent Soderbergh collaborator Scott Z. Burns, that Lucasfilm liked. However, based on Driver, Disney CEO Bob Iger and co-chairman Alan Bergman didn’t see how Ben Solo may come again to life. So that they killed it.

The information sparked an amazing outpouring of help for the thought from seemingly each area of interest of Star Wars fandom and for a large number of causes. Some simply needed to see a Steven Soderbergh Star Wars film. Others wished we may’ve spent extra time with Ben Solo. After which, after all, there was loads of dialogue concerning the borderline idiotic logic behind not transferring ahead with the movie. Characters in Star Wars, in spite of everything, have come back from the dead so many times and in so, so many ways  that it’s most likely extra frequent than a personality really staying lifeless.

So in spite of everything of that, for the official Star Wars YouTube to publish this clip this week, on this second, looks like such a tease. An ideal, delicate, and devilish acknowledgment of this second. Possibly, as many have identified on social media, Driver’s feedback will act virtually just like the leak of Deadpool footage all these years in the past. Footage that was shot as a take a look at, handed on by the studio, however then secretly revealed to the general public, and utterly celebrated. That labored out for Fox and Disney ultimately, did it not?

A Ben Solo film, directed by Steven Soderbergh, may probably be much more thrilling. Information of its mere existence has definitely been met with extra pleasure than other recent Star Wars news.

Any ideas on the timing of this clip being posted? Do you suppose a Ben Solo film may nonetheless occur?

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