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The Town with Matthew Belloni

Mailbag! 'Star Wars' and Soderbergh, the Best Home for Warner Bros., and Netflix vs. Theaters.

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Matt opens up the mailbag for another Town Hall and answers listener questions about Disney turning down a Steven Soderbergh–penned 'Star Wars' script, the possibility of Netflix and Comcast splitting Warner Bros. Discovery, whether Netflix will ever release movies in theaters, who the best home for Warner Bros. is from the perspective of the talent community, and what will happen to 'The Challenge' and other MTV properties under David Ellison. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Email us your thoughts! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠thetown@spotify.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host: Matt Belloni Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It is Wednesday, November 5th. It's been a while since we've done a mailbag episode, a town hall,

0:36.9

as we call them. Craig, this is the day. I'm out of town this week, so we were recording in advance. We asked for some reader input, some questions on the Twitter.com slash X, and people delivered. They sent us some questions. I actually had a couple that I've been sitting around, sitting in my computer waiting for just this moment.

0:55.6

Yeah, thanks to everybody who's sending their questions.

0:57.4

I have a few from myself as well.

0:59.7

So let's get right into it.

1:01.2

The first question is actually from me, because you haven't talked about this yet on the town, and I want you to as the keeper of secrets for Star Wars.

1:08.3

What is your take on the Steven Soderberg hunt for Ben Solo, Star Wars situation?

1:14.6

Good question.

1:15.7

And I actually knew about this, and I knew that they were frustrated in advance.

1:20.6

I was not allowed to say anything.

1:22.1

So can you set the stage for people who don't know?

1:24.1

Yeah.

1:24.6

So this is a script that Steven Soderberg was working on with Adam

1:28.1

Driver, which tells the untold story of what happened to Ben Solo, who is Kylo Ren, and who famously,

1:37.2

spoiler alert, died in The Rise of Skywalker. Right. What happened to him is that he died.

1:42.2

He did die. So they wrote this whole script script and Kathy Kennedy at Lucasfilm was excited to do it.

1:48.9

And they went down the road for a while. They like did revisions and the whole thing.

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