John Boyega Will Always Be a ‘Lightsaber Guy’ — but Admits There’s One Thing Star Wars Can Learn From Star Trek

“In Star Trek, they give you time to have discussions. I think there’s something Star Wars can learn from that actually. In terms of me appearing in [Star Trek], I’ve got to stay on-team. I’m a lightsaber guy.”

Boyega has been doing the cons this year and openly chatting about his time on Star Wars. Last month, at Florida Supercon 2025, he said that Disney’s sequel trilogy would have looked very different if he had been in charge.

Fans “would have had a completely different thing” if Boyega had been allowed to become a producer on the films, which were ultimately released to a mixed reception from fans. Key to the changes Boyega would make, he said, would be a different handling of the saga’s original heroes Han Solo and Luke Skywalker, who were killed off in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, respectively.

And in August, at Fan Expo Boston, Boyega said he expected a more dramatic relationship to develop between his character Finn and Daisy Ridley’s Rey throughout the saga’s sequel trilogy — rather than the simple friendship viewers got instead.

Boyega said he had picked up on hints that his character was secretly Force-sensitive from the script of his first movie in the series, The Force Awakens, and believed that this plotline would be developed further in subsequent films — before taking more of a tragic turn.

Comparing his idea for Finn and Rey’s relationship to Star Wars’ classic Obi-Wan and Darth Vader showdown, Boyega said he thought the pair were due to become antagonists — which would certainly have provided Finn with more of a story arc.

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