There’s one other upcoming Star Wars TV present to sit up for, as Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord was introduced at Star Wars Celebration final month. Identical to in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, Sam Witwer will probably be voicing Palpatine’s former apprentice, however who else can we count on to see seem within the animated sequence? Effectively, Nika Futterman, who voices Asajj Ventress, made a powerful case to me for why her character ought to present up within the spinoff.
Futterman not too long ago reprised Ventress in Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld, which, amongst different issues, revealed how her character got here again to life following the occasions of the novel Darkish Disciple. This look adopted a 12 months after Ventress’ grand return in Star Wars: The Dangerous Batch, and remembering that Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord is on the way in which, I used to be curious what Futterman considered this information and the way she thought a reunion between Ventress and Maul may go down since they shared some display time in The Clone Wars. She began off saying:
Yeah, they did. I feel she’s just a little offended with him. I imply, in spite of everything, did not he and Savage Oppress attempt to kill her at one level? I feel she may be just a little bitter, however they’re associated. They’re from the identical place, proper? They should be cousins in some way. They’ve the a number of the similar genetics, though she doesn’t have horns.
Maul and Ventress are certainly each Zabrak who hail from Dathomir, though feminine Dathomirian Zabraks don’t get these cranial horns. And whereas Ventress wasn’t biologically associated to Mom Talzin, chief of the Nightsisters, like Maul and his brother, Savage Oppress, had been, in a means, I suppose they could possibly be thought-about figurative cousins given their distinctive connections to Talzin. Nonetheless, as you’ll see in the event you revisit The Clone Wars together with your Disney+ subscription, this explicit “household reunion” didn’t go nicely.
Nonetheless, simply because Asajj Ventress and Darth Maul are on unhealthy phrases shouldn’t stop the previous from showing within the latter’s present. I’d argue that makes a fair stronger case for why she ought to seem, though Nika Futterman has no thought if she’s being looped into Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord or not, telling me:
I do not know, and so they’d need to kill me anyway if I did know, however even when I did know, I would not be capable to say, and so they do not inform me something both. It is all very high secret about what that down the road could possibly be.
Set between the top of The Clone Wars, Shadow Lord will observe Maul trying to, as described within the official synopsis, “rebuild his felony syndicate on a planet untouched by the Empire.” He’ll take an apprentice below his wing, however that’s the extent of the plot particulars up to now. Maul was initially bodily portrayed by Ray Park and voiced by Peter Serafinowicz in The Phantom Menace, and the character additionally cameoed in Solo, with Park bodily enjoying him once more and Sam Witter resuming his vocal duties.
As for Asajj Ventress, assuming she did seem in Shadow Lord, hopefully the present takes place post-Tales of the Underworld, as that may let followers see extra of her dynamic with Lyco Strata, the teenaged Jedi Padawam who began touring along with her or not. Whether or not that occurs or not, Nika Futterman thinks there’s greater than sufficient justification for her character to look within the sequence, including:
However I feel that there is quite a lot of room in there to discover some form of a relationship there as a result of they’re from the identical place. And she or he has such a relationship with Mom Talzin, and due to his relationship with Mom Talzin, to me there’s some kind of highly effective story that may be created from that. Whether or not there will probably be or not, I am undecided. I feel that there simply must be as a result of simply the Dathomirians need to be explored extra. There’s by no means been a complete lot about their folks.
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord Is slated to premiere someday in 2026. It’s seemingly we’ll study a number of the different characters who will seem within the Star Wars sequence earlier than the 12 months is over, and my fingers are crossed that Asajj Ventress will probably be on that record.