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According to Discussing Film on X, Dave Filoni revealed that Maul: Shadow Lord will bring some of George Lucas’ original plans for the character to life. “George [Lucas] and I had had some talks about Maul over the years and what his plans for Maul had been,” Filoni said. “And so I felt [Maul – Shadow Lord] was a way of honoring that future that we were going to have and finally bringing some of it to light.”
What is Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord About?
What it seems that Dave Filoni might be talking about is how Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord is likely the replacement for the canceled George Lucas series, Star Wars: Underworld. This was supposed to be a TV series long before streaming became prevalent, as Lucas had plans for Star Wars: Underworld in 2005. Lucas planned on this series to be a live-action drama that took place in between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.
Lucas wanted to explore the criminal underbelly of the galaxy, but the money needed to make this series was too much for the time, and that caused the network to shelve the plans. Two years later, Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney. That entire plotline from Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord sounds exactly like what Lucas was planning in 2005, but with Darth Maul as the character tying it all together. What is impressive is that Disney+ allows the company to make the show for a much higher cost than even Lucas needed in 2005.
