Darth Maul will return again (again) for an animated series on Disney Plus

Lucasfilm is in production on a new solo animated series for the Star Wars villain you absolutely cannot keep down: Darth Maul. Despite him having been killed on screen by Obi-Wan Kenobi twice over, Darth Maul will anchor the newly announced series Maul: Shadow Lord.

The Star Wars studio revealed the news in Friday’s Lucasfilm Animation’s 20th Anniversary panel at Star Wars Celebration 2025, in which Director Dave Filoni and Lucasfilm’s vice president of animation, Athena Portillo, treated the crowd to a whole trailer for Maul: Shadow Lord. Per Variety, the series takes place “about a year” after the events of the finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, in which Maul tried and failed to turn Ahsoka — who was in her rogue Jedi phase — to the Dark Side. Shadow Lord will focus on Maul taking on an apprentice of his own, which is classic Sith stuff.

Sam Witwer, who voiced Maul in Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, will return to the role, and is even helping review the series’ scripts, according to Portillo. Maul: Shadow Lord is expected to premiere on Disney Plus in 2026.