I would’ve brought this up in the more relevant thread but, y’know, spoilers:

So if this rumor about Hayden as Anakin’s ghost turns out to be true, Disney’s pretty much gonna have to restore the original versions of the OT, right? I mean, if we put the whole debate about “was that or wasn’t that a prequel reference” aside, TFA was %100 “version agnostic” as far as the OT is concerned. You could say the same thing about Rogue One. Yeah, both movies use cgi and have other attributes of being 2015/2016 movies, but there’s no reference to anything specific to a certain version of the OT films. Hayden showing up as ghost Anakin would change all of that. It would be Lucasfilm saying “sorry, but George’s version of the OT is THE version so far as these new films are concerned.”

I could see it becoming a sticking point with a significant percentage of the fanbase. Maybe I’m really overthinking it, and I apologize if this feels off topic, but Hayden as Anakin in TLJ will only make the unaltered versions feel all the more conspicuous in their absence.