Star Wars’ iconic villain Darth Maul is returning to the display screen with a brand new animated sequence at Disney+. Maul: Shadow Lord was introduced Friday throughout Lucasfilm Animation’s panel at Star Wars Celebration in Tokyo with Sam Witwer, who has voiced the character in a number of iterations, returning to reprise the function.
Witwer himself took the stage to announce his return within the sequence, which is at the moment in manufacturing and set for premiere on Disney+ in 2026. He beforehand voiced the character in in animated sequence Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels and within the 2018 movie Solo: A Star Wars Story.
The brand new sequence is ready after the occasions of the ultimate season of The Clone Wars, with Maul rising once more to steer the underworld factions, in response to starwars.com
Attendees on the Star Wars Celebration panel obtained a glimpse of the brand new sequence in a clip which reportedly reveals Maul coaching a Twi’lek apprentice that seems to be the longer term Darth.
The Darth Maul character first appeared within the 1999 movie Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
Witwer has labored on quite a few tasks within the Star Wars universe, first voicing Starkiller within the Star Wars: The Drive Unleashed online game sequence. His different credit embody the function of Crashdown in Battlestar Galactica, Davis Bloome in Smallville, Aidan Waite in Being Human, Mr. Hyde in As soon as Upon a Time, Ben Lockwood in Supergirl, and Rupert Chipping in Riverdale.
