Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and its sequel told the story of Starkiller, Darth Vader's secret apprentice who ultimately sees the error of his ways and embraces the light side of the Force. The games took place in the Expanded Universe but were wiped from canon shortly after Disney purchased Lucasfilm and decided to start from scratch. However, Smallville alum Sam Witwer has now revealed that Starkiller nearly came to Disney XD's animated series Star Wars Rebels for a brief stint.
The actor voices Darth Maul in the series and confirmed that Starkiller - or at least a version of him - came close to making an appearance in Star Wars: Rebels during the course of season one.
"Dave [Filoni, executive producer] did share with me, by the way, he considered making Starkiller an Inquisitor in Star Wars Rebels," Witwer said. "It didn’t quite fit the story they were telling, but he did think about it because he thought that would be interesting." That it would have been but you can see why the decision was made to change that as it no doubt would have confused a lot of fans.
It will, however, still be interesting to see whether or not there's a future for Starkiller on the big or small screen as the character is an interesting one and could make his impact felt in a very interesting way in this Universe moving forward. What do you guys think? Let us know your thoughts below.
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