Shadow Lord Is Star Wars’ Subsequent Animated Sequence

At Star Wars Celebration in Tokyo, Japan right this moment throughout a panel celebrating 20 years of Lucasfilm Animation history, the studio confirmed its subsequent huge animated chapter might be none apart from a Darth Maul sequence.

Carrying on a legacy that started with the 3DCG Clone Wars sequence, earlier than carrying on into the likes of Rebels, Resistance, Unhealthy Batch, and animated anthologies like the Tales series, Maul: Shadow Lord will observe Maul (performed by returning Clone Wars and Rebels star Sam Witwer), seemingly as he builds out the Crimson Daybreak crime syndicate. The trailer proven to gathered followers within the corridor included numerous Prison factions just like the Pykes reeling from assaults on shipments, just for Maul to disclose himself because the architect. Whereas the present’s look is a broad evolution of the artwork type seen in Clone Wars and later the Tales anthologies, there may be additionally a brand new stylistic flourish in Shadow Lord‘s aesthetic that leans on tough traces and ragged edges, finest glimpsed in Maul’s crimson saber blades, which look virtually fiery in look.

Probably the most attention-grabbing parts of the entire trailer was that Maul finds himself what seems to be a younger new apprentice within the methods of the Pressure: a younger Twi’lek woman he liberates from captivity after which begins educating. Alongside her tutelage, we see photographs of gang wars, intense chases by means of the hustle and bustle of a metropolis planet (not in contrast to Coruscant, however would Maul actually be taking part in in his outdated grasp’s again yard like that? We’ll have to attend and see), and even an encounter with the Inquisitorius within the form of Ahsoka‘s Marrok, who expresses his shock that Maul has survived whilst he attracts sabers with him.

Maul: Shadow Lord will launch in 2026.

Further reporting by James Whitbrook.

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