Adam Driver Says No More Kylo Ren: ‘Star Wars’ “Ship Has Sailed”

We know Adam Driver has no plans to return to Lena Dunham’s Girls reboot, but what about the Star Wars franchise? Any chance fans will see Kylo Ren again?

Nah.

“Yeah, yeah, it’s over,” Driver said this week on The Rich Eisen Show podcast with regard to the possibility that he’d return to play Kylo Ren. “No more Star Wars. We tried. We tried to do one more, but they were like, no, he’s dead.”

The character was killed off in The Rise of Skywalker (2019), although Driver says on the podcast that she and Steven Soderbergh had indeed worked on a standalone Kylo Ren movie that never came to fruition.

“We got a script together that was really good with Scott Burns and Rebecca Blunt,” Driver tells Eisen about the standalone project that had the working title The Hunt for Ben Solo. “We all worked on it. It was awesome. It was really cool.”

“They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive,” he said. “And that was that.”

Driver points out that ultimately the decision of whether or not to bring back the character isn’t his to make. “If they wanted to, fine, but it’s not our call,” the actor said. “I think the ship has sailed, though.”

Driver is currently starring in James Gray’s Paper Tiger along with Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller. Set in 1986 Queens, NY, the film follows two brothers who become entangled in a scheme that ends up involving the Russian mafia. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, and is being released November 13 by Neon.