We Finally Know Why Disney Won't Give Darth Maul His Own Movie

Why would the studio purposely avoid honoring one of its most popular Star Wars characters with a standalone big-screen adventure? There's more than one reason, as it turns out. Here's why Disney won't give Darth Maul his own movie.

If you're not a hardcore Star Wars fan, you may be surprised by the notion that Maul didn't die in the prequel trilogy. There are a lot of places you can go to find the details of Maul's story if you're interested, but suffice it to say that it's complicated.

Maul not only at one point builds himself a bunch of legs out of trash, he later gets cybernetic legs that Mother Talzin creates for him. He goes on to build a bunch of different crime syndicates that serve various purposes.

His backstory is rich, but it's a story that's already been told. So it may not make sense for it to be retold in a feature film format.

In order to tell a new story featuring Maul, how would Disney approach what he has been through over the course of his life? Not all Star Wars fans have watched all the animated series or read all the comics, and that could impact both how understandable a Maul film would be and interest in the film itself.

The best way to approach a Maul feature film would likely be to tell the most important parts of his life story up to the point that a new story would take place. Depending on when in Star Wars history that film was set, it could take quite a while to tell the relevant bits of Maul's history. That leaves less time for any new events that would theoretically be the point of the film, and that can be really complicated from a storytelling standpoint. Keep watching the video to see that we finally know why Disney won't give Darth Maul his own movie.

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