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dibos-deactivated20210612

Star Wars AU: Jedi Finn.

What we actually wanted deserved.

Dear Hollywood,

I will watch anything featuring John Boyega. I'll pay for it. With money. I'll buy merch. Even if your film is made with a budget of $16.95USD and a ham sandwich. I'll support it. Give it good ratings online. Maybe even see it again via more money.

Cast him. Respectfully. In GOOD roles. I dare you.

Sincerely,

Me

#in this house we stan #John Boyega #john boyega deserved better

shesnake

““It’s so difficult to manoeuvre,” he says, exhaling deeply, visibly calibrating the level of professional diplomacy to display. “You get yourself involved in projects and you’re not necessarily going to like everything. [But] what I would say to Disney is do not bring out a black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side. It’s not good. I’ll say it straight up.” He is talking about himself here – about the character of Finn, the former Stormtrooper who wielded a lightsaber in the first film before being somewhat nudged to the periphery. But he is also talking about other people of colour in the cast – Naomi Ackie and Kelly Marie Tran and even Oscar Isaac (“a brother from Guatemala”) – who he feels suffered the same treatment; he is acknowledging that some people will say he’s “crazy” or “making it up”, but the reordered character hierarchy of The Last Jedi was particularly hard to take. “Like, you guys knew what to do with Daisy Ridley, you knew what to do with Adam Driver,” he says. “You knew what to do with these other people, but when it came to Kelly Marie Tran, when it came to John Boyega, you know fuck all. So what do you want me to say? What they want you to say is, ‘I enjoyed being a part of it. It was a great experience…’ Nah, nah, nah. I’ll take that deal when it’s a great experience. They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley. Let’s be honest. Daisy knows this. Adam knows this. Everybody knows. I’m not exposing anything.“”

— John Boyega: ‘I’m the only cast member whose experience of Star Wars was based on their race’ by Jimi Famurewa, GQ September 2020.

#im glad he said this #its very brave #John Boyega #john boyega deserved better #john boyega is the best

thefirstokiro-deactivated202106

John Boyega deserved Better

So, let’s give some context to those who are not aware of what John Boyega has gone through since being cast in Star Wars so many years ago.

And feel free to add anything I miss.

After being cast in The Force Awakens, there had been a large backlash and a call to Boycott Episode VII

Then after The Force Awakens, John had to deal with toxic fans constantly claiming he was not the Male Lead of the Sequel Trilogy over and over again even though that went against what he was told by The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams when he was cast and what TFA clearly setup.

Finn’s character would then be erased and sidelined in the sequel to TFA, The Last Jedi, much to the celebration of certain fans who claimed it was better that Finn not be in the main conflict of the trilogy.

During this time, John would still be routinely harassed by the bigots who were against his casting as well as people going to his social media accounts to verbally attack him.

Then we having the shipping community…which I will not go too deeply into this beyond the fact that one group of shippers have made John Boyega’s life a living hell, even demanding that Disney blacklists him from ever getting work and influencers in that community sending their followers after Boyega. Then we have another group of shippers who legitimately accused John of queerbaiting on multiple occasions through the years.

Then there was the backlash John Boyega received when he had said that his character Finn and Kelly Marie Tran’s character deserved better in The Last Jedi and that the movie was not for him. Citing that as a Black man playing a Black character, being removed from the central conflict of the trilogy was something he creatively disagreed with. This had earned him the hate of fans of The Last Jedi to large degrees that spread from SW influencers to actors and critics that were close with the director of TLJ.

Then John had been falsely accused of bullying Kelly Marie Tran and once again a group in the Star Wars community went again him.

Then, after months of re-shoots. re-writes and multiple story changes on the final film of the Skywalker saga, The Rise of Skywalker, John Boyega gave his honest thoughts on a creative choice in the film he disagreed with. That earned him the most harassment from the same community who went after him with false claims of bullying Kelly Marie Tran and that he wasn’t the male lead of the trilogy.

And finally, after giving his support to the Black Lives Matter cause, John had been attacked once again by toxic Star Wars fans who either claimed HE was being racist against white people or that fighting for BLM didn’t earn him “Redemption” for the false things they accused him of.

John Boyega has endured nothing but constant attacks for years and has gotten almost next to no support from the online community in the way that he should.

The man has fought against racism, fought for his own place in the film industry, and even started his own production company to give people who never had a shot a chance.

If there is one thing John Boyega is, he is a hero. And if he is anything else, then he’s a role model.

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JOHN BOYEGA DESERVED BETTER

#John Boyega #john boyega is the best #and deserves all the love #and respect #john boyega deserved better #star wars

kmerolzzzz-deactivated20201012

could this be,,, ahahahaha, th,, the return of the jedi?? ahahaha (no but really finn should be a jedi)

not to be ~emotional~ but I’ve been in an art rut lately and honestly just,,, feeling down in general but I’m pretty proud of this,, it felt good to create again even if it meant pulling an all nighter.

(( side note I didn’t really like TLJ and ROS but I love TFA and the potential each character had. the head cannon interactions i have stored in my brain of them just make me love them a whole lot :,)) ))

banditsheath-deactivated2020121

John Boyega legitimately deserves the world. He's had to deal with so much bullshit from the day people learned he would be in Star Wars, had his character disrespected throughout the movies, and then treated like shit by weirdos who were obsessed about a shitty fake relationship, and now he's out there with protestors while many of the people who disrespected him treat white celebrities like heroes for posting a black square on instagram.

#John Boyega #john boyega is the best

payroo

ETA: Updated, fully painted version here!

Happy Star Wars Day! Here’s a sketch of a Jedi!Finn costume based on this outfit of John’s, which literally made me gasp aloud because all that drapey swishy fabric just screams Jedi!

I’m in a film costume history class right now, so I got really excited thinking about all the materials and whatnot. The leather sleeve is of course from the mangled Dameron jacket, and maybe the belts are salvaged from that material too. The drapey grey over-piece would be more of a soft, woven, matte fabric. The inside would be kind of satiny and dark, but would seem understated and subtle until it catches light in a really pretty blue violet. Also, I gave him some form of shoes that aren’t boots since I imagine the poor guy is tired of wearing them by this point, lmao.