Ryan McAvoy said:

Tobar said:
the second half of the article dives straight into fantasy with the notion that the prequels could be deemed Legends and scrapped. As much as I personally would love that, there's not a snowballs chance in hades of it ever happening.

What you are forgetting is that Disney bought this property to suck every last penny out of it. The PT will be remade/rebooted (and in all likelyhood so will the OT) It's just a question of when really (I'm not saying the when will be anytime soon though).

After the ST makes more money than god they only have two ways to go for another trilogy. Forwards or backwards? Episode X, or Episode I?

I could see them remaking the PT because nobody really cares about those movies, I've seen some die hard PT fans on the internet, but I've never met a single person in the real world (teen or adult) who has said that the prequels are better than the originals. However, I don't think they'd ever directly remake the OT because Star Wars and Empire are just too beloved of classics to be remade. I could picture them going the "Oz the Great and Powerful" route and making a lame tie in thing like that, but never a direct remake where Luke leaves Tatoine with Han and Obi-Wan and then gets trapped on the Death Star ect. ect., because I think they know that remaking a classic like that is a bad move. IF (that's a big if) the Bleeding Cool email was from someone who works at LFL or Disney, they may have heard talk of releasing the OUT (which is a believable move I could see Disney making), and they may have also heard that Disney wants to stay away from the prequels and phase out that era, and the employee writing the email may have misunderstood and took that as meaning that the PT was going to be completely retcon. That's just my take on the rumor.