Star Wars: Darth Maul Wishlist - 8 Things We'd Love To See
6. Maul's Journey To Palpatine
This would be a story that I think all Star Wars fans could appreciate, especially after Maul's origins were so tantalisingly teased during his tenure on the Clone Wars. Speaking in an AMA regarding the title's potential resurrection, Red Fly designer Dan Borth remarked on how the game in its original incarnation would have started off with Maul at the age of either 9 or 11, prior to his involvement in the Phantom Menace. Either way you look at it that's a pretty juicy time period to explore in the Star Wars mythos, and would really allow the writers to go about fleshing out the character's backstory and how he came to be the ward of the most powerful Sith in the galaxy. Borth also promised that the game would have made for a morally ambiguous tale, stating that: "We wanted to show what he went through to become a Sith. Showcase the torture the Emperor put him through. Show how you as the player would have made the same mistakes and ended up a Sith." Now if that doesn't make for good drama I clearly don't know what does. Injecting that level of emotional baggage into a Star Wars title would elevate the maturity beyond that of anything previous releases had aimed to cover. It's part of what made 1313 look so appealing when it was first demoed, and would make Maul's solo début a sure-fire success in the process.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
