Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord Animated Series with Sam Witwer will officially arrive in 2026

Darth Maul will return for a new animated Star Wars project! Lucasfilm has confirmed that they are developing a new series entitled Star Wars: Maul – Lord Shadowwith Sam Witwer Returning to express the Sith-Survivor survivor.

The announcement decreased during Star Wars Celebration TokyoAt the end of a 20 -year -old video retrospective that celebrates the Lucasfilm entertainment. While the assembly enveloped, a final blow made fun of what is clearly part of the next Maul series.

Immediately after, Dave Filoni and Lucasfilm VP of the animation Athena Portillo I got on stage to confirm that the threat to the red horn is getting his show.

Here is the official configuration: “After the clone wars, Maul Plot to reconstruct his criminal union on a planet intact by the Empire. In a new series set after the events of the last season of the clone wars, Maul gets up again to guide the factions of the lower”.

Witwer, who expressed Maul on multiple multiple Star Wars projects likeThe clone wars, Rebeland even AloneHe was there in person for the announcement. He confirmed that the story is set about a year after the brutal surrender of his characters with Ahsoka.

“Witwer’s dusting a little,” said Witwer. “We learn some different things about this character. It has some different sections that you would not necessarily think that it makes sense of what it has passed.”

Athena Portillo added that fans will finally be able to dig more deeply who is really Maul. “Unfortunately I can’t tell you too much, but what I can say is that Sam Witwer’s involvement on the show was uncontaminated.

“I am very enthusiastic about the fact that it is able to review the scripts and provide inputs also in all this. Dave Filoni and Sam have created the character for animation, and therefore it is very important to listen to his thoughts for the depth of the character.”

Maul’s journey from the villain of a note to a tactical complex in the underground world is one of the arches of most unexpected characters in the Star Wars universe.

After Obi-Wan divided him in half The ghost threatMost assumed that it was the end of the line. But The clone wars He revealed that he survived and was more angry, darker and with a terrifying series of cybernetic legs. Its history continued Rebelwhere in the end he faced Kenobi one last time.

Then came his surprise appearance Only: a Star Wars storyTaking around a bigger future for Crimson Dawn, a future that has never happened because of the poor box office numbers of the film.

With Shadow LordIt seems that we are finally getting that continuation, only in animated form and I am everything inside! I am excited to see how it ends!