We are a couple of months away from the release of the new animated series Maul: Shadow Lord, and though we recently got our first wave of plot and character details, a recent leak from Funko Pops is expanding the little we know so far about it.
Posted on the subreddit r/StarWarsLeaks are five new Funko Pop figures for the following characters: two versions of Maul (with and without the cloak), Rook Kast, Icarus, and The Crow. The last one is apparently the name given to the Inquisitor we saw in the trailers, the Eleventh Brother, who also appeared in Tales of the Jedi. Interestingly, key characters to the show like Devon Izara (Maul’s apprentice), Brander Lawson, Two-Boots, or even Marrok, are not included in this Funko Pop set, so there may be more down the line.
Rook Kast may be familiar to hard-core The Clone Wars fans. She is the rogue Mandalorian warrior who, along with Gar Saxon, freed Maul and brought him to a Shadow Collective base on Zanbar. Vanessa Marshall is voicing the character once again. While she was included in the official announcement that happened last month, we still don’t know how she factors into the plot.
Maul: Shadow Lord is a 10-episode animated series that will debut on April 6, releasing two episodes a week until its finale on May 4. Sam Witwer is returning as Maul, with the rest of the voice cast including Gideon Adlon as Devon Izara, Wagner Moura as Brander Lawson, Richard Ayoade as Two-Boots, Dennis Haysbert as Master Eeko-Dio-Daki, Chris Diamantopoulos as Looti Vario, Charlie Bushnell as Rylee Lawson, Vanessa Marshall as Rook Kast, David C. Collins as Spybot, A.J. LoCascio as Marrok, and Steve Blum as Icarus.
The series is developed by Dave Filoni and Matt Michnovetz, with Brad Rau as supervising director. The executive producers are Dave Filoni, Athena Yvette Portillo, Matt Michnovetz, Brad Rau, Carrie Beck, and Josh Rimes. Alex Spotswood is the co-executive producer.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.