The prequel Star Wars “Star Wars” trilogy can still be considered by many fans as a mixed bag, but when George Lucas managed to evoke the old magic of 1977, we remembered why we care as much about this universe in the first place. And a character whom he absolutely nailed in the very debate “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” was The Sith Lord Dark Maul.

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Represented by Ray Park, the character combined the frightening power of Dark Vader with the acrobatic skills in martial arts by Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan. Most importantly, with his red and black facial marks and these threatening-yellow-yellow eyes, he just looked cool. You wanted his action character and you may have intended to strut like this Ultra-Halloween.

Alas, the fans were also quite irritated when Lucas rather killed Dark Maul at the end of the film, which made the promise of adventures with this new impressive character seems very unlikely. Obviously, People come back to life in “Star Wars” All the time (sometimes in the most ridiculous way), but Lucas glued to his arms and kept Maul out of the other prequel films – because he had major projects for the character in the following trilogy that he never did.

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Everyone all planned for Lucas, a Dark Maul cybernetic maul would have been the main antagonist of his “Star Wars” trilogy. He also intended to rely strongly on a new female villain, which would have served as an order from Maul. However, when Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney, all these ideas were abandoned. Now, however, it seems that Maul and this largely unused character are finally ready for their lively close -up.

To the celebration of Star Wars this month in Japan, Fans have learned That the animated series “Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord.” is currently in production for a start in 2026 on Disney +. This will mark very powerful mauls Last appearance in animated form after her previous ones in programs like “The Clone Wars” and “Star Wars Rebels”. Not only that, but it seems that he can be joined by the only Sith Twi’lek Talon.

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Hardcore fans “Star Wars” will be familiar with comic book “Star Wars: Legacy”, in which the tattooed badass is formed by Dark Krayt and Dark Rynyn and Wrecks Shop with Maul-Like Abandon. Although nothing civil servant has yet been announced, the images presented during the celebration indicated that Maul will have a Twi’lek cohort. If you go, why wouldn’t you use Talon, who was supposed to be in the video game “Battle of the Sith Lords” (as well as these immediately trilogy films that we have never been able to see)?

This revelation now has fans of “Star Wars” speculating that Lucasfilm could start working in the elements of the unpublished stories of Lucas, which is certainly intriguing. Maybe George knew what he was doing throughout. We will have to wait until next year to see if the longtime animated beginnings of Talon were worth waiting.

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“Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord” will start broadcast in 2026.