emanswfan said:
Hopefully this is just another stupid rumor, especially considering the source.
Boba Fett Movie Casts Jango Actor Temuera Morrison
Assuming this rumour is true for a moment... Temuera is a great actor and was fine as Jango in my book but if he's playing Boba I won't exactly be queuing up to see that movie. Boba's style of voice was established in ESB (HS actually LOL) and it wasn't antipodean.
I found it really wierd in Ep2&3 that most of the supporting cast (Including CGI creatures) suddenly started talking with Australian and New Zealand accents after them all speaking in a blend of British/American accents in the other 4 movies, various TV shows and a plethora of games. In the OT supporting actors with strong regional accents (Cockney, Irish etc) were dubbed over to give the galaxy some kind of uniformity. Naturally this was something Lucas never bothered with doing in lazy PT mode.
Fett Snr having the wrong accent in the PT is small fry compared to all the other travestys so it doesn't bother me too much in the grand scheme but it's an oversight that should not be continued forward into the new SW era IMO.