adywan said:

Andy Serkis' role in TFA has now officially been confirmed. He will be playing a character named Supreme Leader Snoke.

Hrm... Name strikes my ear as kind of silly... But certainly no more so than at least five major PT characters I can think of.

Apart from that - he's not a "Darth" anything. I like that (as I'm sure many others here do). I think that puts the (very persistent) Darth Plagueis rumors to rest (speaking of silly names).

This is great news for those of us hoping for a ST that totally ignores the PT (and thereby leaves room for a future PT remake). After all, if the ST were being made with a spirit of resigned acceptance of the PT, one imagines they would take up certain loose threads from the PT to tie the saga together, and to redeem the PT (to whatever extent that's possible). Plagueis seemed liek the biggest loose thread to me, and I genuinely expected them to pick it up (though I didn't want them to)... He's the Big Bad behind the Big Bad; he's pretty much Anakin's father; AND, although dead, is known to have achieved a method of "cheating" death. I'd go so far as to assume that Lucas intentionally crafted the character to be a potential Sequel Trilogy villain, if I weren't already convinced that his screenwriting ineptitude forced him to crap Plagueis out as an expository expediency.

Either way, Serkis isn't playing him and that's a good thing.