David Chase, creator of "The Sopranos", universally acclaimed as one of the greatest TV series of all-time if not THE greatest (to say anything different will have you cast out as a pariah in American society, you terrorist), is now set to create an HBO miniseries called "A Ribbon of Dreams" which chronicles the history of the American film industry.  Yeah, every film journalist just climaxed a little at that news.

To get more specific, The Hollywood Reporter says that " The mini, whose title comes from Orson Welles' "A film is a ribbon of dreams," will begin in 1913 and follow two men, one a college-educated mechanical engineer, the other a cowboy with a violent past, who form an unlikely producing partnership. The duo will start off as employees of D.W. Griffith, and then cross career paths with such Hollywood greats as John Ford, John Wayne, Raoul Walsh, Bette Davis and Billy Wilder. Through the eyes of the two main characters -- as well as their offspring -- the mini will chronicle the growth of the film industry from the age of rough-hewn silent Westerns, to the golden era of talkies and the studio system, to the auteur movement, to television, and finally to the present day."