{"id":22731,"date":"2025-07-25T12:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22731\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T12:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:23:14","slug":"maul-shadow-lord-series-unveils-first-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22731\/","title":{"rendered":"Maul \u2013 Shadow Lord Series Unveils First Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve only seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/features\/star-wars-timeline-chronological-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Star Wars<\/a> films, Darth Maul was a seriously cool-looking villain from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/star-wars-episode-phantom-menace-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Phantom Menace<\/a> who promptly got sliced in two by Obi-Wan Kenobi \u2013 never to be seen again until he (somehow) returned in the final moments of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/solo-star-wars-story-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Solo: A Star Wars Story<\/a>. But those who\u2019ve seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/the-clone-wars-changed-star-wars-galaxy-forever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Clone Wars<\/a> and Rebels will know there\u2019s much, much more to Maul\u2019s story. He survived being bisected, got spider-robot legs, then got regular-robot legs, sought some Sith artefacts, tried to corrupt the young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/tv\/news\/ahsoka-season-2-first-look-image-ezra-bridger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ezra Bridger<\/a>, and eventually had a rematch with Kenobi (sorry, \u201cKeno-bayyy!\u201d) on Tatooine. And amid all that? He became a crime boss too.<\/p>\n<p>That part of Maul\u2019s long and winding road will be the focus of his upcoming headline animated series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/tv\/news\/maul-shadow-lord-is-the-next-star-wars-animated-series-from-the-clone-wars-and-rebels-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Star Wars: Maul \u2013 Shadow Lord<\/a> \u2013 exploring how the former Sith apprentice became the head of the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate in the galaxy\u2019s expansive underworld. While the show was announced earlier this year at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/features\/the-force-is-the-fans-what-star-wars-celebration-japan-taught-us-about-that-galaxy-far-far-away\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Star Wars Celebration in Tokyo<\/a>, fans now have a first official look at the show, with a shot of Maul wielding his legendary double-bladed lightsaber.<\/p>\n<p>Further details on the show are scarce, but Sam Witwer is returning to voice Maul, Matt Michnovetz is head writer, and Dave Filoni serves as its creator. It\u2019s expected to hit Disney+ in 2026 \u2013 more than enough time, then, to catch up on Clone Wars and Rebels if you haven\u2019t seen them yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve only seen the Star Wars films, Darth Maul was a seriously cool-looking villain from The Phantom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-22731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}