SFFGazette.com<\/a>)\u00a0which of these iconic sci-fi\u00a0franchises he’s backing.\u00a0<\/p>\n“I\u2019m an old school Star Wars fan, and if you\u2019re a Trekkie and you\u2019ve met me at the booths, you would find that I would mention that I don\u2019t like Star Trek,” Boyega said. “I just think that on the Trekkie side, they like to talk about it. On the Star Wars side, we just get active. With Star Wars, you\u2019ve got to talk while the war is going on.”<\/p>\n
Despite that, he believes that\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0could take some cues from one specific aspect of\u00a0Star Trek. “In Star Trek, they give you time to have discussions. I think there\u2019s something Star Wars can learn from that, actually. In terms of me appearing in [Star Trek], I\u2019ve got to stay on team. I\u2019m a lightsaber guy.”<\/p>\n
Before helming The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker, Abrams stepped behind the camera to direct Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness, meaning he’s\u00a0experienced the best of both worlds.\u00a0Fans of these franchises had significant issues with his approach to them.<\/p>\n
As for Boyega, he took toxic\u00a0Star Wars fans to task earlier this year while reflecting on the racism he encountered while playing Finn.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Lemme tell ya, Star Wars always had the vibe of being in the most whitest, elite space,”\u00a0he said.\u00a0“It’s a franchise that’s so white that a Black person existing in [it] was something.”<\/p>\n
“You can always tell it’s something when some Star Wars fans try to say, ‘Well, we had Lando Calrissian and had Samuel L. Jackson!'”\u00a0Boyega\u00a0continued.\u00a0“It’s like telling me how many cookie chips are in the cookie dough. It’s like, they just scattered that in there, bro!”<\/p>\n
“They’re okay with us playing the best friend, but once we touch their heroes, once we lead, once we trailblaze, it’s like, ‘Oh my God, it’s just a bit too much! They’re pandering,'”\u00a0he added, referencing the now-expected backlash when a franchise like\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0casts a Black actor in a lead role.<\/p>\n
While Daisy Ridley is expected to reprise her role as Rey for a new\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0movie directed by\u00a0Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, there’s been nothing to suggest we’ll also see Boyega return as Finn (he likely doesn’t want to either). We may get to find out whether he decided to tell her about being Force-sensitive, though.<\/p>\n
Feel free to weigh in with your thoughts on Boyega’s remarks in the usual place.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Star Wars and Star Trek franchises both have loyal fanbases, though there’s rarely any crossover between them.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,33921,2839,12072,2591,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-226036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-john-boyega","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-star-trek","12":"tag-star-wars","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}