Star Wars The villain Dark Maul obtains his own series.
The popular character, who appeared for the first time in 1999 Star Wars: The Phantom threatwill be the head Maul: Lord of the ShadowA new animated series for Disney +, it was announced on Friday during the celebration of Star Wars.
The series was revealed in the last minutes of a panel highlighting the 20th anniversary of Lucasfilm Animation, with Lucasfilm CCO Dave Filoni, which climbed the ladder via the animation division, and the vice-president of animation Athene Portillo discussing the rich production of the company. But while they were talkative about Woking with George Lucas or the animation process or past hits, when it was a question of discussing a future project, it was the show, Don’t Tell. They simply dropped a trailer on a crowd without mistrust.
And when it became clear that it was a spectacle centered on Maul, the fans were sent to a delighted ecstasy.
The show, which will tell the story of Maul teaching an apprentice, will make his debut in 2026. Sam Witwer, who expresses the Maul character in the previous animated series, will take up the game.
As a character, Maul showed that he had unexpected lasting power. He made for a formidable and memorable appearance thanks to his unique look and a double -edged lightsaber, the latter blowing the spirit of the fans who saw for the first time on the screen Ghost threat. Played with acrobatic agility by Ray Park, the Sith Lord even managed to prove in fact deadly, killing Jedi Qui-Gon, played by Liam Neeson. But he also died when he was cut in half by a young Kenobi Obi-Wan.
But Lucasfilm could not keep a good villain and the character was resurrected, although cybernetically, in the animated series Clone wars. With the latter, the more the animated series Star Wars RebelsMaul was deepened and built with a rich history (involving an entire underground world) and convincing history arches.
The news of the Maul series came during a panel that seeks to mark the 20thth anniversary of the Lucasfilm animation division, which in many ways has kept the Star Wars Mythology that takes place during certain years of thinness during the aughts and in the early 2010s.
The panel examined the first days of the animation division and Filoni spoke of working in close collaboration with the creator of Star Wars George Lucas, who held the animation in high esteem and pushed the development of techniques which are now commonly used as a preize. The duo has also shown a clip never seen before, in the form of pre -plain, of a sequence that has never done Clone wars Series that have shown a Skywalker Anking pursuing Boba Fett through the sky and the streets of Coruscant. An episode of the next animated series was also shown Star Wars: Hell Tales.
