Yeah . That materialise . And here ’s why the writers of Solo : A Star Wars Story decided to do such a shocking thing .
( If you have n’t seen Solo : A Star Wars Story yet , we ’re about to discourse the film ’s biggest spoiler . So beware ) .
Near the end of Solo : A Star Wars Story , the team has defeated Dryden Vos and Han is hold off for Qi’ra to join him so they can fly aside to another adventure . However , Qi’ra see Dryden ’s death as an opportunity so she abandons Han and takes Dryden ’s seat as a drawing card in the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate . To make it prescribed , she sends a substance to Dryden ’s genus Bos .
None other than Darth . Fucking . Maul .
Well , just “ Maul ” these days . He lost the “ Darth ” when Obi - Wan Kenobi tailor his trunk in one-half and Darth Sidious took on Count Dooku as his new apprentice . But more on that , and Maul ’s long , robot - legged path back to prominence , tomorrow .
No , for now , we just want to ask the people responsible for the reveal , Solo writers Lawrence and Jon Kasdan , their thoughts on lend Maul ( play by the combination of Ray Park , reprising his role from The Phantom Menace , and Sam Witwer , who cater the vocalisation of the character reference in Solo as well as the The Clone Wars and Rebels TV shows ) back to the big screen .
“ It was a sneaky ass process that I was fight for all along , ” Jon Kasdan told io9 . “ I ’ve [ always ] been a self-aggrandising Darth Maul buff . He was my best-loved character in the prequel trilogy and I was determined that Dryden was not the top of the nutrient chain . We both wanted the criminal underworld to sense way large than we could see in this film . And that Han would be a Phoxinus phoxinus surrounded by shark . ”
That thematic idea was something the Kasdans wanted to get across in Solo .
“ The larger subject is everybody works for somebody , ” Lawrence Kasdan state . “ Evil or good , you ’re not in ascendance of your destiny , which is very important to us . ” “ Everybody serve some greater God or is mastered by something , ” Jon added .
“ And you know that [ Maul ] works for somebody , ” Lawrence say .
“ The thing about Maul is that he is a role freight with baggage , ” Jon Kasdan continues . “ From lose his wise man , from his licking [ at the hands of Obi - Wan Kenobi ] , from his long journey C. W. Post that defeat , the Clone Wars , the Shadow Collective , we thought this is a fictitious character who comes with so much narrative richness that to glimpse him has power and the promise of history to come . ”
Though , ultimately , even if Maul cut through course with Han Solo , we know where it ends for him . In the deserts of Tatooine , overcome by his big rival .
We ’ll have more on Maul ’s return to alive - legal action Star Wars movies before long .
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