Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, the somewhat awkwardly-titled upcoming Disney+ animated series, has fans stoked. A terrific trailer turned even jaded Star Wars diehards’ heads, and with an April 6 premiere date looming, the visually-stunning interquel centered in part on the titular beloved villain is likely to do quite well for itself on the viewership front.
Money talks, so the probability of success has prompted Disney to announce a second-season renewal ahead of schedule. Hence, production is already underway on a batch of follow-up episodes.
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At this point, I think it’s safe to say that the bulk of the core Star Wars fanbase has long since gotten over the strange creative decision to bring back Maul after he was split in half on his way down a sci-fi shaft in Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Sure, there are millions out there who saw that flick, watched its sequels, and haven’t paid much attention to the prequel era, since. I’m sure at least ten people saw the above trailer for Shadow Lord and turned to their kids for an explanation. But, by and large, the target demographic here knows what’s up.
We saw Darth Maul spring up in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, especially its belated final season. We watched him Star Wars: Rebels, including his final fall. We were teased more live-action maul in Solo: A Star Wars Story, but that film flopped, so no followups are to be found. At last, Maul has his… revenge? Shadow Lord is serving up the biggest slice of badass dual lightsaber ever seen, and while I’m not in love with the apparent “need” for a more relatively innocent perspective character, that’s perhaps more of a me thing. Other than that, it looks great.
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Disney apparently agrees. But while news of a second season is all well and good, I will caution one thing: it’s never a surefire guarantee of success. Just recently, Paramount was bullish enough on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy to greenlight a season two ahead of that show’s premiere. It’s a good thing filming’s already finished, because Starfleet Academy didn’t light up the ratings charts, nor did it catch on among fans—it’s dead in the water now with, apparently, a cliffhanger ending for the upcoming second and final chapter.
Still… this is Star Wars. And that’s Darth Maul. And budgetary considerations probably aren’t quite as sky-high as that Trek show, for that matter. I have no clue whether Dave Filoni and the rest of the Star Wars spearheading gang are hoping for a season three, but if so, odds are solid that they’ll get one in due time.
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