No, Darth Maul Was Never Going to Be within the Obi-Wan Series

Not far more than a month in the past, a rumor swirled across the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ present that the titular Jedi’s oldest foe, Darth Maul, had initially been deliberate to be a a part of the sequence. It was an odd rumor, given every little thing we’d already heard in regards to the present and since, effectively, the Kenobi/Maul storyline had already been wrapped up so splendidly within the Star Wars: Rebels TV present. It was additionally unfaithful, apparently.

The rumor got here from a Hollywood Reporter story the place sources acknowledged that Kenobi director Deborah Chow had pitched a Maul-centric storyline for the sequence, together with a younger Luke taking part in a bigger position as effectively, earlier than Star Wars TV shepherds Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni nixed it for being too Mandalorian-like. However, within the latest concern of Total Film journal, Kenobi director Deborah Chow mentioned that Maul was by no means within the plan for the present, regardless of these earlier studies on the contrary. “As long as I’ve been involved, we’ve never had Darth Maul in any of it,” Chow defined. “Dave [Filoni] did a beautiful job of telling that story already.” (He actually did!)

Honestly, it by no means made any sense that li’l Luke would have quite a lot of seconds of screentime with Obi-Wan, provided that he famously doesn’t acknowledge the person in A New Hope. It additionally by no means made sense to me that Filoni would need to mess with the Kenobi/Maul story he instructed by means of Clone Wars and Rebels, which culminated in what’s inarguably the best second within the franchise’s animated canon. Giving the 2 characters’ story one other prequel chapter (because the Kenobi sequence is about earlier than Rebels) seemingly wouldn’t add something, however would have an opportunity at diminishing the impression of their remaining showdown.

Which, to be truthful, can be a threat that Obi-Wan Kenobi runs regarding the Jedi’s remaining struggle with Darth Vader. We shall see when the Disney+ sequence premieres on May 25.

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