Prequel reboot is never in a million years going to happen, and it probably shouldn’t either. Strange as it may sound to jerks like us here on this forum, the PT has a sizable following, and there’s a whole generation of kids who grew up on the Clone Wars cartoon. The idealistic side of my brain says live and let live, those kids have as much a right to their preferred Star Wars as I do to mine, however misguided that preference may be. The cynical side says Disney’s not going to go out of their way to piss off that prime tween merch-buying demographic, especially when it’s so much easier to please everyone by ignoring the prequels and playing in their shiny new sequel-era sandbox. Honestly, now that we’re getting more movies, I don’t even care that the prequels are bad anymore. There are so many potential subjects out there that are so much more interesting to me than Anakin Skywalker again.
I don’t see the problem. If they go with what I’m saying (making a new non-canon universe separate from George Lucas’ canon universe), nobody’s going to be angry. Reboots happen all the time now! It’s not like the prequels are going to be edited and altered (coughSpecial Editionscough). They’re still there, and if for whatever reason, there’s still people blinded by nostalgia goggles, they can watch their stupid prequels.
Even if people do get angry for whatever strange reason, the majority will be very happy.
The rebooted prequels don’t have to and shouldn’t be about Anakin Skywalker. They can be about the Mandalorian Wars, the Sith Empire, etc. The Star Wars universe could be so much richer than what we actually got. People pretend that the prequels expand and enrich the Star Wars universe, but the prequels do it in all the wrong ways. Because of the prequels, not everybody can be a Jedi hero or use the Force. Yoda wasn’t wise, he just had a bunch of midichlorians. Yes, the prequels did lead to better stories like Knights of the Old Republic, but we would have gotten the same if not a better result if Lucasfilm just decided to remove the block on the past of the original trilogy long before any of Lucas’ prequels actually came out, letting better writers than George Lucas go crazy with the Clone Wars.
Since that didn’t happen, writers have to go out of their way to work around Lucas’ prequels. Why do you think every new dark side user now isn’t a Sith or called “Darth”? (though they are called Kylo Ren, Ventress, Supreme Leader Snoke, Savage Opress, Grand Inquisitor, etc.)
Reboot and everything will be better.