Good news for us Star Wars fans. IMDb is reporting the following:

George Lucas is working on a new live-action Star Wars series for television that is being described as Deadwood meets The Sopranos in outer space, the New York Post reported today (Monday), citing a report that appeared on the sci-fi website collider.com. Lucas’s primary Star Wars characters, including Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Darth Vader, will not appear in the series, the newspaper said. The Post said that Lucas has held talks with HBO about carrying the series and has also approached at least one broadcast network, but he has yet to make a deal. The newspaper did not explain the reasons for the broadcast and cable networks’ reluctance, especially since the Star Wars movies represent the most successful film franchise in history. Lucas is also working on an animated TV series, The Clone Wars, which is also based on the Star Wars tales.

This makes me think the series (which is rumoured to take place between Episodes III and IV) will have that lawless rowdiness in the galaxy that so many stupid nerds bitched was missing from the prequels. (Personally, I know the prequels to be fantastic, and idiots will try to tell you differently. But I’m a stubborn, surly, Star Wars-loving robot and that’s a different argument for a different post.)

Anyhow, even the most jaded of Star Wars fans will agree that a wild west style mob show set in the Star Wars universe during this transitional period in the galaxy is nothing short of rad, to say the least. Knowing Lucas’ sensibilities, I think it would be safe to say that we’d be seeing a lot of “Yojimbo” like action in the far reaches of the galaxy and to say that that makes me happy is quite an understatement.