joefavs said:
Uuuuuuuuugh, that damn Boba Fett rumor. That one has always seemed particularly stupid. Von Sydow is decades too old.
Well, that kind of depends on the canon you choose to follow. In the old EU he was roughly 40 or so in ESB and ROTJ, so 30 years later he would be roughly 70-ish in TFA.
Of course it's practically an impossibility that Abrams and Kasdan would have been allowed to contradict the PT, even though they may never directly reference it, so I agree that it's really silly that everyone keeps expecting Sydow's character to be Boba Fett.
My guess is that many fans just really want this film to contradict the PT, just like a lot of fans seems desperate to have it acknowledge the PT; hence this stupid Snoke is Darth Plagueis rumour.