Three years after 'Revenge of the Sith' put a bloody bow on the cinematic chapter of the Star Wars saga, we get word out of Skywalker Ranch that a new Star Wars movie is hitting theaters this summer.

"Star Wars: The Clone Wars" is the launch for an animated series debuting in the fall on Cartoon Network (with repeats on TNT). I can barely contain my Padewan giddiness at the prospects of a weekly Star Wars serial. And isn't it nice that it is opening three years since the final Star Wars prequel? Appropriate since that is the amount of time we've had to wait for every Star Wars movie.

The news about the latest extension of the Star Wars universe comes on the same day that Hayden Christensen visited our 30 Rock studios to talk about his new film "Jumper." Hayden was way cool and very laid back, not to mention much skinnier than I expected Darth Vader to be. You can check out Jeffrey's interview with Hayden this weekend on RT.

One last thing about the upcoming “Clone Wars” -- it's distributed by Warner Bros., which means we won't see & hear the 20th Century Fox logo and music that's preceded every Star Wars movie before. That will be weird.