Star Wars: Who's Who in the Maul - Shadow Lord Trailer

We’ve yet gotten our archetypal bully look astatine Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord, the latest animated bid successful this ever-expanding franchise. Shadow Lord follows Sam Witwer’s iconic villain arsenic helium sets astir rebuilding his transgression empire successful the epoch of the Empire. And portion helium whitethorn beryllium the prima of the show, determination are a fewer different acquainted faces popping up successful this series.

Let’s instrumentality a heavy dive into the caller Shadow Lord trailer to interruption down some the returning favorites and the caller additions to the Star Wars ranks. How does this bid acceptable into Maul’s analyzable storyline? Here’s what you request to know.

Sam Witwer arsenic Maul

Naturally, the erstwhile Darth Maul is the prima of the amusement with this caller series. For a quality that was seemingly killed disconnected successful his archetypal quality backmost successful 1999’s Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Maul has surely taken connected a 2nd beingness acknowledgment to The Clone Wars and different animated series. Shadow Lord aims to capable successful immoderate large blanks with Maul’s communicative and link the dots betwixt the extremity of The Clone Wars and Maul’s cameo quality successful 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story.

For those who haven’t been pursuing Maul’s travel implicit the past decade-and-a-half, the quality made his unexpected instrumentality successful The Clone Wars, wherever we learned that helium survived his duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi done the powerfulness of sheer hate. Maul was restored to immoderate semblance of sanity and wellness and acceptable astir gathering a transgression empire called the Shadow Collective with the assistance of his brother, Savage Opress, and the Mandalorian faction known arsenic Death Watch.

And yet, destiny inactive hasn’t been benignant to Maul successful the years since. He narrowly survived a reunion with his aged master, Darth Sidious (though Savage wasn’t truthful lucky). In the last Clone Wars communicative arc, “The Siege of Mandalore,” Maul was defeated by Ahsoka Tano and taken into Republic custody. He narrowly escaped aft the events of Order 66 played out, and that’s beauteous overmuch wherever we find him present successful Shadow Lord. He’s a escaped antheral again, but his transgression enactment is successful shambles, and the recently formed Empire is hunting him on with the different surviving Jedi.

As the bid opens, Maul’s travel to rebuild the Shadow Collective takes him to a caller Star Wars satellite called Janix. This precocious planetary metropolis has mostly been a escaped subordinate successful the larger galactic bid up till now, meaning there’s a batch of accidental for an ambitious transgression lord looking to re-stake his assertion connected the underworld.

“It's 1 portion Gotham, 1 portion Metropolis and a 100 percent Star Wars with each these antithetic levels and layers,” Executive Producer Matt Michnovetz told StarWars.com. “It's a metropolis fundamentally built into a crater connected this satellite that is untouched by the Empire. It's got a functioning ideology and instrumentality enforcement doing a bully occupation of policing their ain community. It's a affluent situation for transgression and gangsters, but truthful acold there's been a precise peaceful accord betwixt each of them successful the involvement of business.”

Shadow Lord is acceptable aboriginal connected successful the reign of Palpatine’s Empire, astatine slightest successful Season 1. The question is however overmuch clip the amusement volition yet cover. Will we spot Maul turn to go the maestro of the almighty Crimson Dawn organization, arsenic helium is successful Solo: A Star Wars Story (which is acceptable astir 10 years earlier A New Hope)? Will the bid beforehand adjacent further to uncover what happens aft and wherefore Maul becomes stranded connected Malchor successful Star Wars Rebels? There are a batch of blanks the bid tin capable successful with this character, adjacent if we already cognize however his communicative yet ends.

Gideon Adlon arsenic Devon Izara

Maul: Shadow Lord volition present a fig of caller characters to the Star Wars canon, but astir apt the astir important of these is Devon Izara. From what we tin glean from the trailer, Devon is 1 of the Jedi who survives the Jedi Purge, lone to find herself connected the tally and battling against Stormtroopers and the Sith Inquisitorius.

It appears that Devon becomes an improbable state of Maul’s successful this series, contempt the 2 characters coming from other sides of the Jedi/Sith tracks. As Devon is definite to learn, the aged rivalries don’t needfully substance successful this caller epoch wherever endurance is everything.

“Devon is simply a young idiosyncratic who's surviving done challenging times and realizes that the aboriginal she erstwhile thought she was going to person is nary longer possible, and truthful she has to adapt,” said Michnovetz.

Maul is surely fond of recruiting minions to go his latest Sith apprentice. He did it with his brother, and helium tried to bash it with Ahsoka connected Mandalore. We fishy helium sees a akin accidental successful Devon, a accidental to shepherd an impressionable young Force idiosyncratic and, successful turn, forge himself into a existent Sith maestro susceptible of exacting vengeance connected Sidious.

Whether helium yet proves palmy successful turning Devon to the Dark Side volition astir apt beryllium 1 of the cardinal questions successful the series. But immoderate fans are already speculating that we’re astir to spot Lucasfilm adhd different fashionable Expanded Universe quality to the modern Disney canon. The mentation is that Devon volition yet go Darth Talon, different Force-sensitive Twi’lek and a large villain from the comic publication bid Star Wars Legacy.

In those comics, Talon is progressive much than a 100 years aft the autumn of the Empire, but that hasn’t stopped the fires of speculation from burning. And it’s worthy remembering that George Lucas himself was a large instrumentality of Talon and reportedly wanted her included successful the canceled Darth Maul video game. Maybe he’ll yet spot a mentation of that tendency realized.

Wagner Moura arsenic Brander Lawson

While Maul volition look plentifulness of absorption of the lightsaber-wielding assortment (and we’ll get to those characters shortly), it looks arsenic though 1 of his main caller antagonists successful the bid is simply a humble bull named Captain Brander Lawson. Brander is simply a constabulary detective connected Janix, 1 who has truthful acold managed to support the bid successful the chaotic aboriginal years of the Empire’s reign. Maul’s accomplishment surely threatens that fragile peace.

Brander wears a azygous akin to that of Kyle Soller’s Syril Karn successful Season 1 of Star Wars: Andor. That gives america a clearer representation of what his spot is successful the instrumentality enforcement hierarchy. He’s not an Imperial officer, but portion of the section Janix constabulary force. We fishy that, arsenic overmuch arsenic Brander and the Empire are aligned successful their tendency to spot Maul brought to justice, he’ll beryllium butting heads with them arsenic they commencement to asseverate much dominance implicit the Janix sector.

Richard Ayoade arsenic Two-Boots

Richard Ayoade is adding different Star Wars relation to his repertoire with Shadow Lord. Just arsenic helium voiced the droid Q9-0 successful The Mandalorian, Ayoade volition play a antithetic droid quality called Two-Boots successful Shadow Lord. Two-Boots is Brander Lawson’s faithful spouse and companion. He gets his sanction from - you conjecture it - the antithetic brace of boots helium wears connected the job.

Star Wars fans volition get a accidental to go acquainted with some Brander and Two-Boots earlier the animated bid premieres successful April. They’re besides cardinal figures successful the Marvel Comics prequel bid Star Wars: Shadow of Maul.

“This is simply a sci-fi story, but it's besides a transgression story,” writer Benjamin Percy told Marvel.com. “It's a communicative astir cops, transgression syndicates, a neon-lit, shadow-alleyed metropolis that hides galore sins and secrets. I'm teamed up with an creator who's already a Star Wars seasoned and legend: Madibek Musabeckov. His creation is gritty and grounded and perfectly matches the noir tone. We've been successful adjacent interaction with Lucasfilm—reading scripts and watching episodes of this fantastic caller animated series—and our communicative volition service arsenic a prelude to what viewers volition spot play retired connected the screen.”

Vanessa Marshall arsenic Rook Kast

Maul volition person astatine slightest 1 different state successful his aboriginal quest to rebuild his shattered empire. It turns retired immoderate Mandalorians are inactive loyal to him, adjacent aft the autumn of their world. Vanessa Marshall volition reprise her relation arsenic Rook Kast, the person of Maul’s Mandalorian ace commandos. She’s apt a fugitive from the law, similar Maul himself, and sees an accidental successful Maul’s transgression scheme.

A.J. LoCascio arsenic Marrok

We archetypal encountered the mysterious Marrok successful Ahsoka Season 1, wherever helium was 1 of respective lightsaber-wielding villains going up against Rosario Dawson’s Ahsoka Tano and Natasha Liu Bordizzo’s Sabine Wren. Marrok proved to beryllium a soundless but deadly mercenary, and we yet learned that the crushed is that helium was resurrected arsenic a zombie by Nightsister magic.

But astatine this earlier signifier successful the Star Wars timeline, Marrok is inactive (as acold arsenic we know) an mean flesh-and-blood subordinate of the Sith Inquisitorius. He adjacent carries the esteemed fertile of First Brother. He’ll adjacent person existent dialog this clip around, with A.J. LoCascio formed successful the relation for the archetypal time.

“The Empire is consolidating the postulation from the halfway worlds out, and the Inquisitorius is stronger than ever,” Michnovetz said. “They're hunting Jedi and different Force users, doing each kinds of nasty work. The postulation astatine ample is benignant of dealing with this dilatory emergence of the Empire and antithetic groups person antithetic understandings of what the Empire is. The aforesaid happening goes for the Inquisitors. They’re concealed mercenaries that amusement up retired of the darkness.”

We whitethorn adjacent larn however Marrok dies his archetypal decease successful this series. The harmless stake is that either Maul himself oregon Devon gets the precocious manus connected this character.

Clancy Brown (?) arsenic Eleventh Brother

Marrok won’t beryllium the lone Sith Inquisitor to look successful Season 1 of Shadow Lord. We besides drawback a glimpse of Eleventh Brother, a quality who antecedently appeared successful the anthology bid Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi and Tales of the Empire. We presume Clancy Brown volition erstwhile again dependable Eleventh Brother.

Like Marrok, it appears that Eleventh Brother has been tasked with hunting down Maul and bringing him to Imperial justice. Unlike Marrok, though, we cognize helium won’t beryllium getting killed disconnected successful this show. That grant was already claimed by Ahsoka successful Tales of the Jedi.

The Other Shadow Lord Characters

Disney’s property merchandise for Maul: Shadow Lord drops respective different cardinal names. We cognize that the formed besides includes Dennis Haysbert arsenic Master Eeko-Dio-Daki, Chris Diamantopoulos arsenic Looti Vario, Charlie Bushnell arsenic Rylee Lawson, David C. Collins arsenic Spybot, and Steve Blum arsenic Icarus. For now, it’s hard to enactment those names to faces we spot successful the trailer, but fto america cognize successful the comments if you person immoderate ideas.

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