'Darth Maul' Returns In Next Week's STAR WARS REBELS Season Finale
The ever-popular Sith warrior introduced in The Phantom menace still has life left in him! Check out a clip and images from the season 2 finale of Disney XD's Star Wars Rebels after the jump...
Some fans rightly assumed that "Old Master" would turn out to be Darth Maul, and now it's been confirmed. The well-loved character survived being cut in half in The Phatom Menace and being driven mad after his ordeals in The Clone Wars, and now he's back to seek vengeance.
Producer Dave Filoni spoke to EW about the decision to bring Maul back at this time.
The genesis of this idea is actually kind of an interesting one. I had pointed out several times in story meetings that we have an opportunity – if we wanted to – to actually have Darth Vader fight Darth Maul. That was something that [co-producer] Simon Kinberg and I were like, ‘Oooh…’ Then there was the opponent in the story meetings who would say, ‘Well, that’s fan service,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah – exactly.’ [Laughs] I don’t see the problem with that, but you know we were very careful that we don’t just do things because they’re cool. We want to do things that are story driven."
The season two finale of Star Wars: Rebels airs March 30 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Disney XD.
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