Star Wars Actor John Boyega Says He's Spoken With New Lucasfilm President Dave Filoni About a Return to the Franchise, Years After Suggesting He Wouldn't Play Finn Again

Star Wars histrion John Boyega has revealed he's spoken with caller Lucasfilm president Dave Filoni astir a imaginable instrumentality to the franchise, aft antecedently suggesting helium was done playing erstwhile stormtrooper Finn.

Boyega played Finn successful each 3 of the Star Wars sequels, though subsequently slammed Disney pursuing the motorboat of 2019's divisive The Rise of Skywalker, a movie which helium said had mostly sidelined Finn's quality arc. While the movie gives Finn a just magnitude of screentime (and much truthful than immoderate others introduced passim the sequel trilogy), it leaves Finn softly harboring the concealed that he's Force-sensitive — thing the movie implies without making explicit, without immoderate clip to make further.

"[W]hat I would accidental to Disney is bash not bring retired a Black character, marketplace them to beryllium overmuch much important successful the franchise than they are and past person them pushed to the side," Boyega told GQ backmost successful 2020. "It's not good. I'll accidental it consecutive up."

Subsequent years person seen Boyega region himself from Star Wars further, astir notably successful a 2022 interrogation with SiriusXM wherever helium said that "at this constituent I'm chill disconnected it, I'm bully disconnected it." He continued: "Versatility is my way and Finn is astatine a bully confirmation constituent wherever you tin conscionable bask him successful different things: the games, the animation. I consciousness similar [Episodes] 7 to 9 was bully for me."

Boyega recovered fame successful 2011 movie Attack the Block, prompting a flurry of further movie and TV roles that stretched passim his clip successful the spotlight making and promoting Star Wars. The past fewer years person seen him look successful less projects, however, with his astir caller movie the Netflix sci-fi drama They Cloned Tyrone, launched backmost successful 2023.

Now, speaking astatine Megacon Orlando during a instrumentality sheet hosted by ScreenRant, Boyega struck a antithetic code erstwhile asked whether he'd ever instrumentality arsenic Finn erstwhile again. When an assemblage subordinate shouted retired “Get Dave [Filoni] connected the phone," Boyega replied: “I really have, actually."

While Boyega did not elaborate further, fans person suggested the information helium had reached retired to Filoni astatine each was an denotation that he'd present softened his presumption connected appearing arsenic Finn successful future. Lucasfilm presently has a raft of further Star Wars projects successful development, including nebulous plans to bring backmost Daisy Ridley's Rey for aggregate films acceptable aft Rise of Skywalker. If Boyega was to return, it'd beryllium casual to spot Rey dropping backmost successful connected her aged pal there.

Exactly erstwhile Rey volition instrumentality remains unclear, however, peculiarly aft erstwhile Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy failed to notation the previously-announced standalone movie acceptable to diagnostic Rey Skywalker successful her exit interview. The project, revealed by Kennedy with fanfare astatine Star Wars Celebration 2023, was planned to diagnostic the instrumentality of Daisy Ridley arsenic Rey Skywalker, and uncover however the quality started a caller epoch of the Jedi Order.

Lucasfilm is besides incubating a caller trilogy of movies from Simon Kinberg, the manager down the widely-panned X-Men movie Dark Phoenix and 2022 spy enactment flop The 355, which presently sounds similar it's much apt to happen. "[Kinberg] wrote thing that we work successful August, and it was precise good, but not there," Kennedy told Deadline. "We've beauteous overmuch upended the story, and past spent a large woody of clip connected the treatment, which helium finished virtually astir 4 weeks ago. And it's a precise elaborate treatment, similar 70 pages. And truthful helium is expected to springiness america thing successful March."

Before each of that, Star Wars volition instrumentality to theaters this twelvemonth with The Mandalorian And Grogu, owed retired connected May 22. Ryan Gosling's Star Wars: Starfighter past arrives adjacent year, connected May 28, 2027.

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