{"id":53550,"date":"2025-04-20T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T16:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=53550"},"modified":"2025-04-20T14:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T18:37:52","slug":"star-wars-animated-series-maul-shadow-lord-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/20\/star-wars-animated-series-maul-shadow-lord-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"STAR WARS Animated Series MAUL: SHADOW LORD Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Maul<\/a>
Image via Lucasfilm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s hard to keep a good (bad?) Sith Lord down.<\/p>\n

Darth Maul, the villain from Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace<\/strong>, will be returning to the Star Wars universe next year as a new animated series Maul: Shadow Lord<\/em> was announced today at Star Wars Celebration Japan.<\/p>\n

For those who have not dipped their toe into the animated side of Star Wars<\/strong>, specifically The Clone Wars<\/em> and Rebels<\/em> series, it turns out that Maul managed to survive being cut in two by Obi-Wan Kenobi at the climax of Phantom Menace<\/strong>. He would go on to nurse a grudge against his Master, the soon-to-be Emperor Palpatine. Hiding in the shadows to take advantage of everyone presuming him dead to try and orchestrate his vengeance. By the time of the spinoff live action film Solo<\/strong>, Maul has risen to take over one of the galaxy’s largest criminal organizations. For a more in-depth look at that storyline, we broke it down here<\/a> when Solo<\/strong> was released in theaters.<\/p>\n

And while plenty of Maul’s story has been told in The Clone Wars<\/em> and Rebels<\/em> animated series, there is apparently room for a few more to be told. According to the trailer that was screened at Celebration, Maul: Shadow Lord<\/em> looks to see him taking on an apprentice of his own at some point. There is already speculation that this could be a new version of Darth Talon, a driving character of the non-canonical comic book series Legacy<\/em> set just over a century after the events of the films.<\/p>\n

Sam Whitwer, who voiced the character in his animated incarnation, will be returning for the new series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Darth Maul is back in a new animated series spotlighting the villainous Sith Lord.<\/div>\n

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