{"id":69820,"date":"2025-04-16T14:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=69820"},"modified":"2025-04-30T14:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:14:24","slug":"a-new-star-wars-series-was-recently-announced-at-the-star-wars-celebration-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/a-new-star-wars-series-was-recently-announced-at-the-star-wars-celebration-in-tokyo\/69820\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Star Wars series was recently announced at the Star Wars Celebration in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news for <em>Star Wars<\/em> fans: a new animated series titled <em>Maul: Shadow Lord<\/em> is on the horizon, focusing on the iconic villain, Darth Maul. The announcement came during the Star Wars Celebration in Tokyo, where Lucasfilm\u2019s CCO Dave Filoni and VP of Animation Athena Portillo revealed the project. Fans were in for a treat when they saw the first footage of the series, and the crowd went wild with anticipation.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Witwer, who has previously voiced Darth Maul in <em>Star Wars: The Clone Wars<\/em>, <em>Star Wars Rebels<\/em>, and even in <em>Solo: A Star Wars Story<\/em>, is returning to lend his voice to the character once again. His involvement in the series has been praised by Portillo, who mentioned that Witwer\u2019s input in the creative process has been vital. She noted that Witwer helped shape the character\u2019s depth, and he even had a chance to review the script during development.<\/p>\n<p>The series will take place about a year after the events of <em>The Clone Wars<\/em>, offering fans a deeper look into the character of Darth Maul. It\u2019s shaping up to be an exciting addition to the <em>Star Wars<\/em> animated universe, with Witwer\u2019s involvement ensuring that the iconic villain\u2019s character will be portrayed with the depth and complexity that fans have come to expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news for Star Wars fans: a new animated series titled Maul: Shadow Lord is on the horizon, focusing on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":69821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1243],"class_list":["post-69820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-star-wars"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}