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Fans Beg For Adam Driver to Return In Newly Announced Rey Skywalker Movie

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Adam Driver as Kylo Ren in 'Star Wars: Episode VII - The Last Jedi' (2017)

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Star Wars Celebration is off and running in the UK right now, and the news on the first day of the annual festival has already been quite impressive. Among the announcements already made, the crowd and the world were shocked by the massive news that Daisy Ridley is returning as Rey Skywalker in a movie that will focus on rebuilding the Jedi Order and the evil that will attempt to stop that from happening. This could also mean that Adam Driver could be involved.

Rey wielding a blue lightsaber as she listens to Jedi spirits
Credit: Lucasfilm

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Though it has not been confirmed if Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), Finn (John Boyega), or Rose (Kelly Marie Tran) will appear, fans have already been begging for one character to return: Ben Solo (Adam Driver).

We would love to see Reylo return in this new Star Wars movie, though we are unsure how Ben Solo can return other than being a Force Ghost for Rey to speak with. Rey and Kylo did form a “Dyad,” so it would make sense that she is still connected to him in some manner in this supposed sequel movie.

We would also love to see Star Wars completely ignore its own timeline to just bring back Adam Driver as Ben Solo. Let’s put it this way if Emperor Palpatine can be resurrected and brought back, so can Ben Solo.

It would be odd that Ben Solo does not appear in this new Jedi Order movie. Adam Driver is arguably the best thing about the sequel trilogy, apart from Daisy Ridley, so the fans want to see the man return in some fashion, even if that cameo is just for him to guide Rey as a Force Ghost.

We are unsure what we would give up to see Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley back together in Star Wars, but this fan is dedicated to that cause entirely. We respect it.

We knew someone would take this announcement to someplace dark or someplace Darkside. It would be incredible if Ben Solo were brought back as an even more evil version of Kylo Ren.

At least one fan in the crowd of the above video wants to see Adam Driver continue in Star Wars. We would say Driver’s awkward answer to the question of seeing Ben Solo “die” means that he would love to return to the character.

Ben Solo trending on Twitter means that the Star Wars world has spoken. Lucasfilm has one shot at making this perfect and should do so immediately.

We understand it might be time to move past the Skywalker Saga. Granted, Rey adopted the last name of Skywalker, so it stands to reason she will continue the family business. However, director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy might be using this new movie to move past what has been established and start anew.

adam driver as kylo ren
Credit: Lucasfilm

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We would love to see Adam Driver return as Ben Solo, but it could be that Lucasfilm wants to see the man stay dead. Again, that would be a bit misleading, considering most Jedi return as Force Ghosts, but Rey can certainly carry her own story now. We are more excited to see what kind of evil forces will rise against this new rebuilding of the Jedi Order.

Do you want to see Adam Driver return in the Rey Skywalker movie? Let Inside the Magic know in the comments!

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James Brizuela

James Brizuela has been a professional entertainment writer since 2019, having started his career at Comic Book Resources as a listicle writer. After focusing on his expertise in the gaming, movies, and TV at CBR, he moved into an Editor position at Giant Freakin Robot, where he ran the gaming section of the website. He would use this opportunity to catapult his way to become the Entertaintment Editor here at Inside the Magic. When James is not writing Entertainment news for ITM, he attends concerts and works on his personal film scripts.

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