John Boyega is Getting Ripped for the Next 'Star Wars' Film

John Boyega shows off his insane back muscles in this new Instagram photo!

The 23-year-old actor is clearly getting in shape ahead of his highly-anticipated role in the next Star Wars film.

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“VIII,” he captioned it, of course, referring to Star Wars: Episode VIII.

The movie’s release date was recently pushed back from May 26, 2017 to December 15, 2017.

John has been keeping mum on the script, but did say that it was “much darker” than Episode VII.

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