The galaxy far, far away might still have room for “The Hunt for Ben Solo.” After months of uncertainty, the Adam Driver and Steven Soderbergh–pitched “Star Wars” spin-off has received the first glimmer of hope since whispers of its rejection by Disney.

With Kathleen Kennedy stepping down from Lucasfilm, the former president offered the most candid update yet: the script, written by Scott Burns, was “just great,” and while it never got the green light, “anything’s a possibility if somebody’s willing to take a risk.”

Kennedy didn’t exactly declare the movie back on track, she placed it on the “back burner,” alongside other high-profile projects like James Mangold’s “Dawn of the Jedi.“ But that phrase alone carries weight. In a landscape where fan campaigns have stretched sky banners and trended hashtags like #SaveTheHuntForBenSolo, being “back-burnered” is far from dead.

The script remains intact, admired, and now sits in a world under new creative leadership: Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan, with Filoni reportedly supportive of Driver and Soderbergh’s vision.

It’s a precarious position, but a hopeful one. After years of “Star Wars” projects being pitched, shelved, or quietly discarded, the Ben Solo spin-off has a chance to survive into this new era at Lucasfilm.

For now, fans can hold onto the knowledge that the story hasn’t been erased, and that somewhere in the corridors of Disney and Lucasfilm, the fate of this particular Force-sensitive saga still hangs in the balance.