With Daisy Ridley set to return to the world of Star Wars, fans are wondering if they’ll see other sequel movie stars appear. Adam Driver was asked about it, but quickly shot down any chances of a return.
During a recent appearance on the Smartless podcast, Driver was asked about the possibility of returning to the iconic franchise. The actor acknowledged that things were happening, but that he wasn’t involved with it at all.
“They’re doing stuff, but not with me. I’m not doing it anymore,” Driver said, simply replying “yeah” when asked if it was because the story of Kylo Ren had been all but concluded.
The Star Wars sequel films are a polarizing trilogy
The Star Wars sequel films are a divisive group of films, with Driver recently saying that the overall arc and plan for Kylo Ren changed a bit as the films kept going.
“I had an overall arc in mind that [Abrams] wanted to do, which then changed, but his idea was almost the opposite journey of Vader. Where Vader starts the most confident, the most committed to the dark side, and by the last movie he’s the most vulnerable and weak,” Driver said in an interview on The Rich Eisen Show. “And he wanted to start it the opposite, where this character was the most confused and vulnerable, and by the end of the three movies, would be most committed to the dark side. So I tried to keep that arc in mind, regardless if that wound up not being the journey anyway, because it changed, obviously.”
Driver said the changes to Kylo Ren began in The Last Jedi when writer-director Rian Johnson “took it into a different direction,” which Driver said did still align with the character overall. However, the arc shifted even more in The Rise of Skywalker, as Ben Solo’s redemption was never part of the original plan.
“Then the last one, it changed into being about them, and the dyad, and things like that,” Drive continued. “And evolving into Ben Solo, that was never part of it. He was Ben Solo from the beginning, but it was never a version where we actually see Ben Solo when I first signed up for it.”
