John Boyega’s Mad Plan for the Star Wars Sequels: Keep Han, Luke, and the Original Heroes Front and Center

John Boyega has thoughts about how the Star Wars sequels should have gone, and he is not shy about saying the quiet part out loud. At Florida Supercon 2025, the Finn actor basically pitched the alternate sequel trilogy that lives in a lot of fans heads: keep the original heroes front and center long enough to truly pass the torch, let the new kids earn it, and dig into deeper Star Wars lore while you do it.

Legacy first, not last

Speaking on stage (via Popverse), Boyega said that if he had been producing the new trilogy from day one, we would not have hustled the OGs off the board. His priority: finish the arcs of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo properly, then create an actual baton handoff to the next generation. Not exactly a radical idea, but it is amazing how few franchises do it well.

What we actually got

If you need a refresher on the sequel-era body count and cameos, here is the quick version:

• Han Solo (Harrison Ford) is killed by his son Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) in 2015's The Force Awakens.
• Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) shows up silently at the very end of that movie, then dies in 2017's The Last Jedi.
• Leia Organa dies in 2019's The Rise of Skywalker, a storyline choice shaped by Carrie Fisher's passing before filming.

The new heroes, minus the cheat codes

Boyega also took issue with how effortlessly some abilities landed in the sequels. He said the fresh faces — think Daisy Ridley's Rey, Oscar Isaac's Poe Dameron, and company — should not be 'OP'd [overpowered].' In his version, they do not just grab a thing and instantly know how to use it; they struggle and grow like everyone else in this galaxy.

Where he would mine the lore

Here is where it gets a little inside baseball (the fun kind). Boyega said he would look back to the Old Republic era and figure out what pieces could be folded into the ongoing saga — basically pulling from the deeper bench of Star Wars storytelling rather than staying in the narrow lane. He even name-checked Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, the video game, as material he would love to see adapted for the big screen.

'I would try to expand the Star Wars universe as much as possible while respecting the lore. 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, way more.'

The read

That last bit is Boyega taking a clear swing at Luke's Force projection in The Last Jedi — one of the most debated choices in modern Star Wars. Agree or not, his pitch is consistent: honor the legacy characters first, make the handoff mean something, let the next generation bleed a little on the way up, and widen the canvas beyond the same few corners of the galaxy. Coming from the Attack the Block star who lived through the sequels as Finn, it is a candid, very fannish roadmap for the trilogy we did not get.