The lore needs to be tweaked, however. Probably severely in a lot of cases.
Get rid of the force and get rid of light-sabers... for starters.
That ship has sailed long, long ago. Jedi, Sith, light side, dark side, Lightsabers.....Those things are too much of a part of Star Wars lore and history to get rid of at this point, especially with probably the favorite character of the saga, Ahsoka Tano, being a force user. I will admit that with the 7 seasons of The Clone Wars animated series, which takes place between episodes 2 and 3, that some of the best episodes/story arcs were those that concentrated on the troopers and had no force users in them.