It’s in all probability for the very best that Darth Maul isn’t the large dangerous within the upcoming Disney+ Obi-Wan Kenobi series, avoiding a retread of the character’s terrific bow on Star Wars Rebels. However director Deborah Chow and original author Hossein Amini pitched a much darker take by which the character would return, nevertheless it was paused by Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy.
In response to a story in the Hollywood Reporter, there was an iteration of the upcoming Kenobi story that did function Darth Maul (with Ray Park reprising the position) to function predominant antagonist, in addition to younger Luke Skywalker in a extra outstanding position. Sources informed THR that when the story was reviewed by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, the pair “have been involved about Obi-Wan overlaying comparable floor as Mandalorian—the Lone Wolf and Cub-like story of Kenobi popping out of hiding to guard a child-aged Luke Skywalker.”
Filoni is understood for additionally having delivered the definitive ending to the Kenobi/Maul storyline on Star Wars: Rebels. In a previous interview with io9, he famous that his take provided extra a poignant closure for the character, versus a build-up to a different lightsaber battle. “It was simply the suitable time to inform the story and produce that thread to an finish,” he stated of the fast dying. “I felt strongly Obi-Wan, if he may assist it, would actually fairly not kill Darth Maul. Obi-Wan is at a degree, in my thoughts, the place he’s change into fairly enlightened. He’s been within the desert discovering who he’s, actually evolving as a personality. He’s not that younger brash child that went right into a struggle with Maul out of anger for the very fact his grasp was killed. It might probably’t be that very same state of affairs that is so a few years later. Maul, for his half, is just about hung up on that precise second. That’s the place his life went unsuitable. He can’t let it go.” On the time there was nothing deliberate for Maul sooner or later.
The THR story additionally mentions a supply claiming that Ray Park has proven up for a shoot and stunt coaching since being taking part in early pre-production; a Lucasfilm rep contradicts the account stating that Maul was by no means meant for the collection. Constructing off the suggestion from Favreau and Filoni to “go greater,”Chow and her workforce leaned right into a manner for Darth Vader to change into the principle antagonist for the collection with Hayden Christensen reprising the position of Anakin Skywalker. While some followers could also be dissatisfied that Obi-Wan Kenobi’s frequent nemesis gained’t be enjoying a serious position, it’s time to maneuver on and see how Kenobi’s path within the Disney+ collection is related to the occasions main as much as Star Wars: A New Hope.
Obi-Wan Kenobi premieres Might 25 on Disney+.
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