The MVS-as-Boba-Fett thing was something I theorized not long after he was cast, and before I found out it was an actual rumor. It seemed odd to cast an actor that age in this particular film, unless it was because they wanted a character old enough to have spanned all three trilogies. In fact, I racked my brain trying to come up with characters whose age fit his in this timeframe, and for two solid days, I had myself convinced that Max Von Sydow, renowned international star of stage and screen whose career spans more than six decades, was cast to play Kitster, Anakin's childhood chum.
But it suddenly (concord) dawned on me that having an elderly Swedish actor play the octogenarian version of a little Maori boy is really no more insane than having him play the octogenarian version of a little Pakistani boy, and I became unshakably convinced that we'd be seeing a geriatric Boba Fett in TFA. But I soon dismissed such a twist as being too similar to what Abrams pulled with Khan... And now I read about this somewhat dubious "confirmation"...
I dunno... It does make sense on a number of levels, not the least of which being good business sense in keeping Boba fresh in the public's mind just in time for his spinoff film. And I heartily support so big a middle finger at the PT as casting an actor so irreconcilably different from Temuera Morrison. And, personally, the very idea; the very phrase "Max Von Sydow as Boba Fett" fills me with absurd delight. Just imagine a Star Wars fan sitting down to watch Flash Gordon in the theater in December of 1980, The Empire Strikes Back still fresh in his mind. Imagine telling him that the selfsame Max Von Sydow portraying Ming the Merciless up there on the big screen, will one day play the aged version of that badass new bounty hunter guy from Empire. I mean, it certainly beats having to tell him that Prince Vultan would go on to play an obese, West Indian-accented rabbit-frog in the first of an entire trilogy of shitty Star Wars films...
I guess what I'm saying is, "I like it. I hope it's true."