Sam Witwer Teases Maul’s Descent Into Shadow...

Final weekend’s Star Wars Celebration Japan featured the reveal of Maul: Shadow Lord, the following animated Star Wars present. In it, the previous Sith apprentice will construct up his enterprise into the Crimson Daybreak crime syndicate featured in Solo and Star Wars Outlaws.

In the course of the occasion, IGN spoke with returning voice actor Sam Witwer, who defined the present takes place a yr after Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Maul ended that present leaving Ahsoka and the Order 66-controlled Clones to die, and based on Witwer, the character’s in a “difficult place.” By this cut-off date, his mom Talzin and brother Savage have each been killed, and he’s been deserted or betrayed by the allies he made in the course of the Clone Wars. All that, plus Ahsoka rejecting his offer to kill Anakin and stop Palpatine’s ascent, has him questioning what to do in life.

“Maul comes from a time of magic… now he’s seeing an Empire he knew was coming, and the magic and colour is being sucked out of the universe,” continued Witwer. “How does he really feel about that? this totally different than what he anticipated and the way does he really feel that impacts him? What does he wanna do about it, and might he? He’s not very outfitted proper now. So it is a man who’s attempting to determine what his future is.” That future, as teased in the course of the trailer at SWCJ, will contain taking up one other apprentice teased by Witwer as “fairly one thing.”

Tone-wise, Witwer additional mentioned Shadow Lord would don’t have any such redemption play for its title character. “He’s a foul man on this present,” the actor affirmed. “Our present is unhealthy guys versus worse guys, so Maul is each bit as unhealthy as he was earlier than—in some methods even worse.”

Maul: Shadow Lord premieres in 2026.

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