John Boyega hasn’t been shy about his sophisticated emotions concerning his position in Disney’s Star Wars sequel trilogy.
The actor, who performed stormtrooper-turned-rebel Finn in The Drive Awakens, The Final Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker, has been vocal about his frustrations with the sequence, together with how his character’s arc was dealt with and the horrible manner some followers handled him and his non-white co-stars.
Throughout a current look at Supercon Florida, the Assault the Block star revealed the particular modifications he would have made to the sequel sequence had he been a producer on the movies.
One of many main modifications he’d make? Not killing off Luke, Han, and Leia, for a begin.
“If I used to be a producer on Star Wars from the start, you’ll have had a complete fully totally different factor,” Boyega stated.
“It could be mad. To start with, we’re not eliminating Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, all these folks. We’re not doing that. The very first thing we will do is fulfill their story, fulfill their legacy. We’ll make a very good second of handing on the baton,” he continued.
The actor insisted he would have added extra “battle” for the characters, and included lore from the fan-favorite 2008 Drive Unleashed online game.
“Our new characters is not going to be [overpowered] in these films. They will not simply seize stuff and know what to do with it. No. You have to battle like each different character on this franchise. I would do this. I would look to the Previous Republic tales, and see what we are able to add to the continuation of that. I’d undoubtedly need to see Drive Unleashed tales in there. I’d attempt to develop the Star Wars universe as a lot as potential whereas respecting the lore. If we’re increasing the lore, now we have to do it throughout the respective boundaries that keep true,” he defined.
“However Luke Skywalker would not be disappearing on a rock. Hell no. Standing there and he is, like, a projector? I’d need to give these characters far more, far more,” Boyega reiterated.
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In August, Boyega shared at Fan Expo Boston that he initially believed Finn would turn out to be a Jedi alongside Rey after his character briefly wielded a lightsaber in 2015’s The Drive Awakens, however that by no means occurred, and he felt his character was finally pushed to the aspect regardless of being marketed as a lead.
“I feel I assumed he was Drive-sensitive from The Drive Awakens’ script or no less than by the point I bought to the tip of The Drive Awakens’ script. I believed they had been planning twin Jedis. I truly thought that they’d Obi-Wan and Darth Vader us a bit. That we’d flip in opposition to one another or one thing alongside these traces,” Boyega admitted.
Boyega was met with vile racist backlash on-line from some followers when the trailer for The Drive Awakens was first launched in 2014.
In 2020, he instructed British GQ that Disney gave “all of the nuance” to Rey and Kylo Ren, the white lead characters, however that the corporate didn’t know what to do with Finn, a Black stormtrooper.
In 2025, he stated that for some followers, Star Wars as a franchise is “so white {that a} Black particular person present in [it] was one thing.” Nonetheless, he maintains he’s a giant fan of the franchise regardless of the best way he was handled.
The subsequent Star Wars film, The Mandalorian and Grogu, will launch in theaters on Might 22, 2026.
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