To fans who may have cringed at the lighter look that the Star Wars Prequals portrayed, MTV may have delerived us “new hope.”

If you thought the cantina in Mos Eisley was a “wretched hive of scum and villainy,” well you’d better be cautious because an upcoming journey back to the “Star Wars” universe is going to reveal the “greasy, seamy underbelly of ‘Star Wars.’” That’s what Steve Sansweet, Lucasfilm’s Director of Fan Relations, revealed to MTV News at New York’s Comic Con yesterday about the much anticipated live-action “Star Wars” TV show in development. Confirming that the show will “involve some characters we know” along with new creations, Sansweet said the show would be “of epic scale.”

I found the newer films to be more high-tech than the original films, which I found odd because the newer films are supposed to be prequals. Maybe it was the inclusion of Coruscant, that made it seem more high-tech? I don’t know. But I do feel that they were more clean looking than the original films, where everything was worn, battle-scarred, and almost dirty.

So while this news isn’t exactly as big as, let say, if they were to come and say “Darth Vader is in the show,” it is indeed hopeful news.

They also dropped word on when the show might blast into our “galaxy.”

So when can we expect all of this? “We’ll see it in production probably sometime in 2009. Hopefully the series will be on by 2010,” said Sansweet.
 

A couple of years away? That was no brainer. Now, if they would only give us more details, or even more hints.