Star Wars: John Boyega Reveals What It Would Take to Return as Finn

Actor John Boyega recently revealed the exact conditions Lucasfilm would need to meet before he would consider rejoining the Star Wars universe as Finn.

Boyega played Finn, a First Order stormtrooper who defected to join the Resistance, in all three installments in the Star Wars sequel trilogy — The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). During a panel at the recent Fan Expo Philadelphia, the actor revealed that he isn’t against returning to a galaxy far, far away, sharing what exactly Lucasfilm would need to do to convince him to reprise the role of Finn again.

“C’mon, yeah, of course. That would be fun to do, but contractually, I’m on three movies, and then after that, we don’t know what’s happening until they, you know, give you a few calls and say ‘You should come back’ and all that kind of stuff,” he explained. “And because of the whole storm after Star Wars, I think Disney felt a little bit like, ‘Does he still want to be a part of it?’ I’m like, damn, like, I can like this franchise and still tell you that certain elements wasn’t all the way there. It doesn’t remove your love for the whole entire franchise.”

What will it take for John Boyega to return to the Star Wars galaxy?

Boyega has been vocal in the past about how he thinks Finn was mishandled during the sequel trilogy, and that’s one of the conditions that would need to be met before he’d agree to return.

“So for me, everybody knows, it’s dependent on treating the character well, it’s dependent on fulfilling the arc that was teased quite a lot during the process. And hopefully, this time, it’s them approaching it by having a plan of what they’re gonna do throughout the whole series,” he said, referencing how Disney and Lucasfilm hadn’t fully plotted out an arc for the sequel trilogy before beginning production on The Force Awakens.

The Star Wars sequel trilogy is streaming on Disney+.

(Source: Fan Expo Philadelphia, via Screen Rant)