Star Wars actor John Boyega has revealed he’s spoken with new Lucasfilm president Dave Filoni about a potential return to the franchise, after previously suggesting he was done playing former stormtrooper Finn.
Boyega played Finn in all three of the Star Wars sequels, though subsequently slammed Disney following the launch of 2019’s divisive The Rise of Skywalker, a movie which he said had largely sidelined Finn’s character arc. While the movie gives Finn a fair amount of screentime (and more so than some others introduced throughout the sequel trilogy), it leaves Finn quietly harboring the secret that he’s Force-sensitive — something the film implies without making explicit, without any time to develop further.
“[W]hat I would say to Disney is do not bring out a Black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side,” Boyega told GQ back in 2020. “It’s not good. I’ll say it straight up.”
Subsequent years have seen Boyega distance himself from Star Wars further, most notably in a 2022 interview with SiriusXM where he said that “at this point I’m cool off it, I’m good off it.” He continued: “Versatility is my path and Finn is at a good confirmation point where you can just enjoy him in other things: the games, the animation. I feel like [Episodes] 7 to 9 was good for me.”
