{"id":508827,"date":"2026-04-02T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/508827\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:21:17","slug":"maul-shadow-lord-creators-tease-horrifying-inquisitor-marrok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/508827\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Maul: Shadow Lord&#8217; Creators Tease &#8220;Horrifying&#8221; Inquisitor Marrok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though Maul: Shadow Lord debuts next week, we haven\u2019t been told much about the enemies Maul will be facing in the series. Captain Lawson and his side-kick Two Boots are just beginning to be explored in the Shadow of Maul tie-in comic, and we\u2019ve seen the inquisitor Eighth Brother \u2014 AKA. Marrok \u2014 as an undead servant for Morgan Elsbeth in Ahsoka, but not much else.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, the creators of the animated series \u2014 supervising director Brad Rau, writer Matt Michnovetz and executive producer Athena Yvette Portillo \u2014 told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/entertainment\/star-wars-tv-shows\/maul-shadow-lords-inquisitors-are-creepier-than-weve-ever-seen-them-including-ahsokas-mysterious-marrok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GamesRadar<\/a> a bit more about what we can expect from Marrok in Shadow Lord.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwarsnewsnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Marrok-fights-Maul.webp\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-cZA8xKMH\" data-imagelightbox=\"0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-179639 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Marrok-fights-Maul-1024x576.webp.webp\" alt=\"Maul clashes lightsabers with Marrok\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rau mentioned that the character is \u201ca foil for Maul\u201d and explained that they wanted the inquisitors in Maul: Shadow Lord to be as horrifying as possible, so Marrok moves both like a hulking monster and a ghost:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, he\u2019s awesome. He\u2019s so cool, and performed by our buddy, A.J. LoCascio, and A.J. is so good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talked a lot about [how] we wanted these Inquisitors to be as creepy as possible, creepier than we\u2019ve ever seen them: horrifying, in fact. And, A.J. certainly gives us a lot of that in his performance. And the way that we blocked Marrok in particular, if you notice, he moves really slowly, like a horror monster, and then he moves really fast, also like some kind of apparition. And so we just played with all of that fun stuff. It\u2019s just too much fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michnovetz added that \u201che fits perfectly with the story we wanted to tell,\u201d while Portillo adds that \u201cit\u2019s the level of threat and intimidation he brings to the table\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll get to spend much more time with Marrok when Maul: Shadow Lord debuts next week on April 6. Perhaps this will tell us how he died and ended up undead in service to Morgan? We\u2019ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starwarsnewsnet.com\/author\/josh-atkins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0ee4667d03c7ac810b1855715a9c6d4c.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-150 photo\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" itemprop=\"image\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Josh is a huge Star Wars fan, who has spent far too much time wondering if any Star Wars character could defeat Thanos with all the Infinity Stones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though Maul: Shadow Lord debuts next week, we haven\u2019t been told much about the enemies Maul will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2589,96,178275,169592,2839,2591,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-508827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-disney-plus","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-marrok","11":"tag-maul-shadow-lord","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-star-wars","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508827","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=508827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}