SPECULATION A few guesses about which cast members are playing which characters.

Here's another one:

Andy Serkis is Snoke who is:

SPOILERS FOR AFTERMATH AHEAD




The unknown Admiral from the end of Aftermath

 

MSW have been under the same impression for some time... it make sense.

Not sure about this one. Sarco Plank may not look particularly tall, but I'm not sure he as short as Miltos Yerolemou... The news of his casting only broke 1st September.
Miltos was also at Comicpalooza Con in Texas on the 23rd and 24th of May, which would put him out of the bulk of the Act 1 filming, though it is entirely possible that Sarco Plank doesn't actually appear on Jakku.

Highly unlikely.

Spoiler

As revealed in Moving Target, Major Ematt is with General Leia Organa at the Resistance base around the start of The Force Awakens, while Poe Dameron is already on Jakku.

If Ematt were in fact "The Vicar," it would mean that "The Vicar" plays a completely different role to what we were aware of.
Corwin is still the more likely character, although Collider's Jedi Council have speculated that he may actually be the gay Imperial turncoat Sinjir Rath Velus, also from Aftermath, based on another character referring to him as "the tall man" (MVS is 1.94m/6'4").
Corwin has the advantage that he's already been placed on Jakku.

I don't know... if the Empire was full of powerful dark side force users, such as Snoke, I don't think things would have turned out the way they did...

 

But the Admiral wasn't with the Empire, we was out in the far reaches of the Galaxy, and wasn't able to make it back until a year after ROTJ. This lines up with another tidbit from Aftermath, which says that the emperor had sent people out into deep space to find the source of the dark side. While the Admiral (if he is Snoke) could have been a regular imperial commander when he left, if he DID find the source of the dark side, then it would stand to reason that he came back a powerful force user on a mission to recreate the empire. Although I'm really just playing devils advocate here, my gut tells me it's Thrawn.

 

I see... so you're saying that MVS is not the Vicar at all.
The problem with that theory is that MVS is a bit old for Ematt. Major Ematt is only supposed to be in his 50s during TFA, while MVS is in his 80s.
We'll probably find that Ematt was one of the officers visible in the SDCC video.

 

Which book are you referring to?
I hardly think his costume seen in Smuggler's Run is indicative of how he dresses in TFA. For starters, he was working recon, trying to keep a low profile back then... now he's at the Resistance Base, with only the rank of Major. He would be wearing a Resistance uniform like all the other officers.

 

This is who MSW were thinking could be a match for Ematt.

 

God I hope it's not true.

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I posted this pic/theory below a long time ago. Now we have the name Unkar Plutt who runs the scavenger business with his Unkar thugs. I still think Simon Pegg could play this character.


Perhaps this blue guy to the right is Plutt ? He looks very Jakku and scavenger like. But maybe not , somehow the name (and pegs costume ) suggests a fat guy to me.


Or maybe the blue concept is just a early version of this guy


Time will tell...

 

I was actually just thinking this.
He's one of the only other actors we know of who was in Abu Dhabi...