Wait...they're doing new ones? Eeek! Some things should be left alone.
I agree about the prequels...after Jar Jar Binks, I left the galaxy far, far away in a hurry. The costumes were splendid, though. One of my splurges was to buy the big book about the costumes. I spent no money on the movies after going to see the first one, after all.
The only prequil that's decent is the third one... the other two, I feel, were just made so that he could get to that one... the "love story" in the second one was so stupid...
I love a lot of the Extended Universe books (after the original trilogy, there are tons of SW novels that continue the story) but they've said they will not be using them in making the new films. BLAH! I probably won't ever see the news ones.