Hal 9000 said:

I don't expect the new films to make anything of the existing EU, but hopefully they steer clear of openly dismissing it entirely. If the films skip 40 years and don't require knowledge of what happened in between, these still might be fun as occasional podcast replacements.

That's exactly how I've been hoping Ep7 will be handled. It would be pretty stupid at this point for them to do anything but this, especially considering the cover art they chose for Crucible.

It's not like it would be all that complicated. They just need to follow a few simple rules, such as setting it 40 years since Endor, keeping certain characters dead and maybe avoiding going to certain planets so they don't have to even bring up the Yuuzhan Vong thing.

I won't spoil anything, but if you step back and look at who's still alive there are some intriguing possibilities for where they could take the new movie.

Besides, if they come up with an original script with original characters they won't need to worry about what EU stuff to reference and what not to.