Rebel Ridge Director on John Boyega’s Exit & Delayed Production Challenges
Overnight, the movie has rapidly grown into one of Netflix’s largest hits, fueled solely by positive word-of-mouth. This impressive feat is all the more remarkable given that the film initially faced the possibility of never being made when its lead actor, John Boyega, dropped out shortly after filming began. Despite conflicting reports about Boyega’s departure, writer and director Rian Johnson clarified how this unexpected change could have spelled doom for the movie, but instead turned out to be “the perfect circumstances” that propelled it to success.