John Boyega has once again criticised Disney’s Star Wars sequels, telling fans that the trilogy would have looked completely different had he been given creative control. The actor, who played Finn in The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker, made the blunt remarks during an appearance at Florida Supercon 2025 in Miami Beach.
Boyega, 33, admitted he was never satisfied with how the movies handled the franchise’s legacy characters. “If I was a producer on Star Wars from the beginning, you would have had a whole completely different thing,” he said. “First of all, we’re not getting rid of Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, all these people. We’re not doing that. The first thing we’re going to do is fulfil their story, fulfil their legacy. We’re going to make a good moment of handing on the baton.”
The actor also criticised how the sequels powered up new characters too quickly. He insisted he would have grounded their development in the kind of struggle audiences saw in earlier films. “Our new characters will not be OP’d [overpowered] in these movies,” Boyega explained. “They won’t just grab stuff and know what to do with it. No. You’ve got to struggle like every other character in this franchise. I’d do that.”
Boyega even said he would have borrowed lore from the fan-favourite 2008 video game The Force Unleashed, which many fans consider a highlight of the extended universe. He was especially critical of Luke Skywalker’s portrayal in The Last Jedi, where the Jedi Master appeared as a Force projection. “But Luke Skywalker wouldn’t be disappearing on a rock. Hell no! Standing there and he’s, like, a projector? I would want to give those characters way more.”
This is not the first time Boyega has spoken out. In a 2020 interview with British GQ, he accused Disney of giving “all the nuance” to Rey and Kylo Ren while sidelining Finn, a Black stormtrooper. Earlier this year, he also said that for some fans, Star Wars is “so white that a Black person existing in [it] was something.”
While Boyega’s honesty has continued to divide opinion among Star Wars fans, his latest remarks show that he remains outspoken about the choices Disney made with the trilogy that defined his career.
