‘Star Wars’ From Darth Maul’s Perspective Sounds Fascinating

When Obi-Wan Kenobi reduce Darth Maul in half over 25 years ago, most of us thought that was it. Maul was clearly one of many coolest and most fascinating Star Wars characters ever, however George Lucas selected to kill him. Nevertheless, as destiny would have it, the character has now come again time and time once more, largely as a consequence of Lucas’s protégé Dave Filoni, and shortly, we’re gonna get far more of him than we ever thought potential.

Maul: Shadow Lord, a brand new animated collection, was announced at Star Wars Celebration Japan final month and it’ll convey the previous Sith Lord again to the forefront in an enormous, huge method. Talking with fellow Star Wars star Katee Sackhoff, voice of Maul Sam Witwer revealed just a few broad clues about what we will anticipate from the present, together with how Maul perceives the plan formulated by his former grasp, Darth Sidious.

“This can be a man who knew that the Empire was coming, and he was a part of that,” Witwer mentioned on The Sackhoff Show. “He was speculated to be a part of the Clone Wars. He was speculated to work together with his grasp, they usually have been going to convey in regards to the destruction of the Republic and the destruction of his hated enemy, the Jedi Order. He was raised to hate them. He educated his entire life to destroy them. Properly, now we’ve got a present the place, OK, all of that was performed, however Maul, yeah, you killed a bunch of Jedi through the Clone Wars, however you didn’t work with Sidious. You didn’t know the entire plan. And in reality, you bought so scared about his plan that you simply tried to cease it on the final second.”

“Now the Empire’s right here, which Maul would have identified that that was his grasp’s intent,” he continues. “However now that he’s seeing it, he’s like, ‘Is that this what he had in thoughts? As a result of this isn’t what I assumed it could be…’ Maul comes from a time of swords and sorcery and magic and knights and now all of that coloration is being sucked out of the universe by this mechanized empire. And Maul’s like, ‘Is that this proper? Is that this the universe that we have been attempting to construct?’”

That’s fascinating, is it not? Seeing the grand plans of Emperor Palpatine by means of the eyes of somebody who labored with him earlier than Darth Vader. Earlier than Rely Dooku. Earlier than Grand Moff Tarkin or Grand Admiral Thrawn. Somebody who was there firstly and is now confused about what he thought the plan was, and what it ended up being.

However, as Witwer explains, that’s type of the purpose of Maul: Shadow Lord.

“It actually is a present about dangerous guys versus worse guys,” he mentioned. “And our dangerous guys are nonetheless dangerous guys. This isn’t going to be a present the place you go, oh, you discover out Maul is only a actual teddy bear, man. He’s simply misunderstood… However the thought is, in actual fact, that despite the fact that he’s a nasty man, is he as dangerous as Sidious or Vader? And the reply is definitely no. From the Sith perspective, this man has flaws. And these flaws are… the humanity that seeps in at numerous factors. And a few of that is humanity he didn’t have possibly early in Clone Wars. However due to issues that occurred to him, he’s rethought loads of issues.”

Rethinking issues is an element of what’s making Maul: Shadow Lord work too. Witwer defined that, as he was working with Filoni on Clone Wars and Rebels, they’d provide you with concepts for Maul that they liked, however couldn’t match within the present. Now, all these concepts are coming again.

“There have been concepts that I had again in Clone Wars that I might current to Dave, and even in Rebels,” Witwer mentioned. “And I additionally know issues that Dave needed to do. And Dave would go, ‘We’re going to chop this half out of the script that I’ve that I like a lot as a result of this isn’t Maul’s present.’ Or I’d say, ‘Dave, what if this occurs?’ And he goes, ‘It’s not Maul’s present. You may’t go into that little degree of element. We’re seeing this from Ezra’s perspective or Ahsoka’s perspective.’ And each time he mentioned, ‘This isn’t Maul’s present,’ it by no means occurred to me that Maul might have a present. So I simply took these concepts and I’m like, properly, I suppose we’ll by no means see that. And now he’s like, properly, it’s Maul’s present.’”

You may watch the total clip beneath and maintain an eye fixed out for Maul: Shadow Lord in 2026.

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