Sam Witwer Teases Maul’s Descent Into Shadow Lord

Last weekend’s Star Wars Celebration Japan featured the reveal of Maul: Shadow Lord, the next animated Star Wars show. In it, the former Sith apprentice will build up his enterprise into the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate featured in Solo and Star Wars Outlaws. During the event, IGN spoke with returning voice actor Sam Witwer, who explained the show takes place a year after Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Maul ended that show leaving Ahsoka and the Order 66-controlled Clones to die, and according to Witwer, the character’s in a “challenging place.” By this point in time, his mother Talzin and brother Savage have both been killed, and he’s been abandoned or betrayed by the allies he made during the Clone Wars. All that, plus Ahsoka rejecting his offer to kill Anakin and prevent Palpatine’s ascent, has him wondering what to do in life. “Maul comes from a time of magic… now he’s seeing an Empire he knew was coming, and the magic and color is being sucked out of the universe,” continued Witwer. ... Read full article.