Lucasfilm Baked the Sound Sam Witwer's Blood-Curdling Screams Into Darth Maul's Lightsaber for Shadow Lord TV Series

As if Darth Maul wasn’t already aggravated enough, the squad down Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord has revealed they infused his double-bladed lightsaber with the blood-curdling screams of histrion Sam Witwer.

Lucasfilm gave fans a peek into the effort it enactment into fleshing retired the darkest parts of its beingness successful a caller behind-the-scenes video published recently. It’s a two-and-a-half-minute look astatine however the longtime Darth Maul histrion contributed his assemblage and caput to assistance trade a mentation of a fan-favorite quality filled with much rage than ever.

Witwer played the vengeful Sith passim the 2010s successful spinoff projects similar Solo: A Star Wars Story, Rebels, and Star Wars: Battlefront 2. Maul – Shadow Lord is the archetypal clip he’s gotten to represent the quality successful a standalone outing, though, and judging by today’s footage, helium tried to marque the astir of it.

Just 1 illustration showed Witwer donning Darth Maul’s look markings portion providing notation videos for the team. It’s not precisely the benignant of happening viewers whitethorn person picked up connected erstwhile watching the archetypal 2 episodes, which premiered April 6. What immoderate whitethorn person noticed, however, is the unsmooth dependable his reddish lightsaber makes arsenic it virtually roars into his enemies.

Lucasfilm said fans tin “actually perceive the dependable of Sam’s screaming built into the saber,” arsenic the footage highlights moments wherever the weapon’s reddish glow is accompanied by the all-too acquainted screams of the show’s rubric character. Besides his iconic beingness successful Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace, Darth Maul is known for being 1 of the angrier characters successful fiction.

It’s a presumption that has travel with a batch of scenes featuring him grunting and screaming done the years. Now, the aforesaid level of vocal enactment enactment into his iconic “Kenobi!” outcry from Rebels has been infused into his lightsaber.

Maul – Shadow Lord is the latest Clone Wars-style spinoff connected Disney+. Its adjacent 2 episodes volition premiere April 13, with 2 much acceptable to travel each Monday until the finale premieres connected Star Wars Day, May 4. You tin spot wherefore we thought Season 1 deserved an 8/10 reappraisal here.

For more, you tin work up connected what Witwer said helium would bash to spot a instrumentality for his The Force Unleashed character, Starkiller. You tin besides cheque retired our database of the apical 10 astir anticipated TV shows of April 2026.

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