TMBTM said:

Not only I'm pleased the EU will not be used in the new movies (they can keep some planets, even some secondary characters if they want to, I would not mind. After all they also bought the rights of the EU...)

I don't know. A clean break is better. Using some would leave people wondering what counts and what doesn't.

DC Comics just did that, with a huge REBOOT only lots of things were still the same, but somethings weren't and lots didn't fit and no one knew what counted and what didn't. For example, there have no only been two Robins, but Batman has at least five Ex-Robins running around.