After the end of The Bad Batch last year with it’s magnificent third season, we finally know what the next ongoing Lucasfilm animated series will be – Maul: Shadow Lord, and star Sam Witwer sat down with IGN to discuss the series, and where we find Maul a year after the fall of the Republic and the Jedi, in an era when he is estranged from the Emperor.
“It takes place a year after the Clone Wars have ended, and Maul is in a very challenging place, because the people that he had around him, a lot of them scattered or betrayed him during the Clone Wars. So we’re dealing with a guy who is trying to figure out well, my God, what is my purpose? Maul, you have to remember, is a classically trained Force user, a classically trained Sith.
He comes from a time of magic, knights, passion, enthusiasm, aggression, fire – magic. Now he is seeing an empire that he knew was coming, and the magic and the color is being sucked out of the universe. How does he feel about that? Did he see that that was going to be the way that it was? Is this different than what he expected and how does he feel that affects him? What does he wanna do about it? Can he do anything about it? He’s not very equipped right now. So this is a guy who’s trying to figure out what his destiny is.”
