Video Footage and Concept Art From the Canceled Darth Maul Video Game!

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Developer Red Fly was working on a Star Wars game starring Darth Maul. The game would have been a stealth action game inspired by Batman: Arkham Asylum. Hit the jump to see a short footage from the game as well as a really cool concept art…

From IGN:

Maul was, as an anonymous developer described it, “insanely powerful and deadly, but one or two hits will take you out.”

Although the developer aimed to create a Darth Maul origin story in 2010, LucasArts’ goal was to link the game, codenamed Damage, to an upcoming season of The Clone Wars, in which reintroduced the supposedly dead Maul via his brother, Savage Opress.

George Lucas himself shifted the direction of Damage drastically, with the story involving Darth Krayt and Darth Talon, known within Star Wars’ Dark Horse Comics canon.

LucasArts allegedly considered purchasing Red Fly. When the buyout didn’t happen, LucasArts canceled Damage in 2011, forcing the studio to let go of 70 employees.

Here’s a brief video with footage from the game (thanks to dandino):


 

Now Game Informer managed to get their hands on some really cool concept art from the game

“featuring artwork not seen before. These images give insight into the direction Red Fly’s artists hoped the game would go in. Without a script, or even a writer to pen one, these proposed stages and characters may never have seen the light of day. Had they been woven into the plot, however, this Darth Maul game would have given fans a look at a much different side of the Star Wars universe than previously seen in games”

 For the full gallery go to Game Informer. (via Jedi News)

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68 thoughts on “Video Footage and Concept Art From the Canceled Darth Maul Video Game!

  • April 10, 2014 at 1:50 pm
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    aww you posted my video and gave me a shout out thank you <3
    your the best viral!

    • April 10, 2014 at 2:33 pm
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      By the way I’m having issues seeing this video on my desktop. I can see it on my mobile though. Can you view it normally from the article?

    • April 10, 2014 at 2:37 pm
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      I’ve got my laptop on and it’s working on my end

    • April 10, 2014 at 3:21 pm
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      Viral, maybe your desktop has gone to the Dark Side!

  • April 10, 2014 at 1:55 pm
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    I never liked the idea of Maul surviving being cut in half and dropped down a deep shaft. It’s really stretching credibility.

    • April 10, 2014 at 2:13 pm
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      It would be cool if Mace Windu survived though, maybe with amnesia (that could account for where he’s been). If Anakin could jump out of moving speeders then surly Windu could somehow survive the fall.

    • April 10, 2014 at 2:46 pm
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      Both would be stretching credibility. And I don’t get why everyone is clamoring for Mace Windu to make a return. I don’t find his character all that interesting.

    • April 10, 2014 at 2:48 pm
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      There’s no way Windu survived that fall. His body was heavily weakened from being struck by force lightening for a consistent minute and a half or so, then having his arm cut off and being thrown from the window of a very tall building. Not even a Jedi mater could pull through that.

    • April 10, 2014 at 2:50 pm
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      Agreed, Rebel. Samuel L Jackson wasn’t the best inclusion for Star Wars and I would have much rather seen his role played out more through Ki-Adi-Mundi or another Jedi with more interesting character traits. I also agree with you AnonymousApril 10, 2014 at 2:55 PM. Maul should have dies after falling down a seemingly endless pit after being sliced in half.

    • April 10, 2014 at 3:21 pm
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      … But then again, rebel scum is a known PT hater, so of course he won’t like Mace Windu.but bring on boba Fett because he was such a *well developed* character, right???

    • April 10, 2014 at 3:24 pm
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      My stance on Fett is he’s dead just like Mace and Darth Maul.

    • April 10, 2014 at 3:31 pm
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      AnonymousApril 10, 2014 at 4:21 PM
      You’re quick to judge, aren’t you? Being a “PT hater” shouldn’t mean jack shit if the accused has good reason to reinforce that opinion.

    • April 10, 2014 at 3:32 pm
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      On the topic of Boba Fett, I believe GL didn’t know what he had. If he had known how popular Fett was/is, GL could have spared him. Maybe Fett is knocked out onto the sand instead of the sarlac. However, GL probably saw Fett as a Hutt cronie and and that he should perish with all the other Hutt cronies.

    • April 10, 2014 at 3:37 pm
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      Thanks, dopeyjoe, he’s obviously a multiple thread poster who choosesnot to have a handle. He’s what I like to think of as an Agent Smith clone with no fighting skills.

    • April 10, 2014 at 4:18 pm
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      Hahaha agreed.
      Concerning Fett’s return, I think it’s safe to say that it could really go either way for Boba. I like the idea of bringing him back in a way where he’s an older guy living on tatooine undercover and known by the locals as a legend for destroying the sarlacc. It’s always been hard for me to believe that the most feard bounty hunter in the galaxy was slain by a recovering blind man with a shovel.

    • April 10, 2014 at 4:26 pm
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      I also don’t think Boba got as much screen time as he should have. A TV series of spinoff movie would be ideal to expand on his character rather than bringing him back in the ST.

  • April 10, 2014 at 2:15 pm
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    Darth Maul. a.k.a one of the most boring characters of star wars and nobody would even like him if it wasn’t for his skin

    • April 10, 2014 at 2:38 pm
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      That’s what you could say about just about any hot female actor in hollywood, but they sure do make the silver screen look a lot better.

    • April 10, 2014 at 3:09 pm
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      Maul didn’t need to be such a boring character. The real problem was that Lucas wrote him (and Count Dooku, for that matter) to be a throwaway villain.

      It would be like if Darth Vader had been blasted out of the sky when Han swooped in to save Luke at the end of ANH, rather than simply being knocked out of combat where he could live to fight another day.

      IMHO, had Lucas kept Maul as the main Sith villain throughout the PT the way he did with Vader in the OT, he could have easily been made into a more interesting and compelling character. But yeah, as it was he ended up being almost all flash with very little substance.

    • April 10, 2014 at 3:21 pm
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      And Maul had almost no dialogue in Episode 1. That did lend to mystery, but the mystery was killed along with Darth Maul.

      Let’s say Maul did not die in Episode 1 – didn’t get cut in half and fall down thousands of feet. He searches for Anakin in Episode 2 to kill off the one who would bring balance to the force. Episode 3 sees Maul and Anakin battling in front of Sidious, just like Luke and Vader did in Episode 6. Only this time, Anakin falls to the dark side and Obi-Wan tracks Anakin down for a show down like at the end of Episode 3.

      The last few minutes are the same, while Sidious battles Yoda, Vader battles Obi-Wan. And take the God forsaken “Noooooooooooo” away from the final scenes.

    • April 10, 2014 at 3:56 pm
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      “mystery” is just a excuse for poor writing lol

    • April 10, 2014 at 3:58 pm
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      The opposite is true. It takes a good writer to write mystery.

    • April 10, 2014 at 4:22 pm
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      IMHO, the PT plot would have been served to a far greater extent if Maul had killed somebody close to Anakin (other than Qui Gon, who was hardly defenseless against Maul) causing Anakin to become obsessed with bringing Maul to justice – which, as Anakin continued to fail to best him, would gradually begin to sour and make that relatively short leap from a desire for justice to a need for revenge, leading to Anakin’s turn to the dark side.

      It would not only have developed Maul’s character to its full potential, but it would also have give Anakin a motivation for his dark side turn other than, “I just LOVE TOO MUCH!”

    • April 10, 2014 at 4:24 pm
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      That, Dekka, is a stroke of genius! Is it possible to do a remake of the prequels? I’m starting to like how this plot is developing!

    • April 10, 2014 at 4:40 pm
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      Like so many of us, I think, I did begin writing down ideas for an alternate PT story years ago, and this ended up being Anakin’s main motivation. I started by figuring that since ANH was so heavily influenced by Kurasawa’s “Hidden Fortress”, the first film of the PT ought to have some “Seven Samurai” elements to it. The bandits hassling the farmers would end up being connected to a mining operation out in the Jundland Wastes somewhere (headed up by either a Maul type character or somebody who reported to him), and Anakin’s mother ends up being kidnapped from the moisture farm and forced to work the mine with a lot of other slaves. Anakin and a few Jedi (including Obi Wan, on Tatooine investigating either the mining operation or something entirely different that leads them to the mining operation) try to free the slaves and shut down the operation once and for all, and in the process, Maul kills Anakin’s mother before escaping.

      And there’s your long-term motivation.

    • April 10, 2014 at 4:45 pm
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      Or, possibly, leaving a lot of the original movie in tact, Maul catches up to Anakin and Qui-gon at Anakin’s home, instead of just before they lift off. Anikin’s mom is killed in the commotion, while Padme pulls Anakin away (kicking and screaming) from the foray. This gives Anakin a connection to Padme, which later turns into a romance, which results in Anakin’s offspring, Luke and Leia.

    • April 10, 2014 at 4:50 pm
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      Oh, and of course, in the melee, Jar-Jar is slain mercilessly.

    • April 10, 2014 at 4:53 pm
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      But of course!

    • April 10, 2014 at 4:56 pm
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      We need a website to put all these good ideas down.

    • April 10, 2014 at 4:57 pm
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      It takes a good writer to give a character three lines that show nothing about his character? Oh ok..

    • April 10, 2014 at 5:02 pm
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      Y’know, Rebel Scum, I always felt it was a mistake to make Anakin a child in Episode I. Not only did it require that they start all over again with a new actor finding the role in Episode II (rather than building on what he’d done in Episode I, as Mark Hamill did in ESB) but it also missed the perfect opportunity to have Anakin’s story reflect Luke’s by starting them both at about the same age.

      But if one were to keep the PT story as it is, your idea would work really, really well. The big goodbye scene between Anakin and his mother could be interrupted by Maul stepping out of the shadows, dropping down off of a roof, or what have you. And then the fight could occur there rather than out in the desert.

    • April 10, 2014 at 5:23 pm
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      So, do we remove the word “Midi-chlorian” from the Star Wars universe? I would say so. However, I think we keep the fact that Darth Plagueis caused Anakin to exist. And in Episode 2, Sidious reveals this to Anakin, trying to get an emotional advantage to kill him off or turn him to the dark side.

    • April 10, 2014 at 5:25 pm
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      Anakin, the Dark Side is your father!

      Seriously, we move the theater scene to episode 2 with slightly different dialogue.

    • April 10, 2014 at 5:42 pm
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      The theatre scene was one of the few that I thought worked VERY well in the entire PT.

      And of course, move it to Episode II. After all, if Lucas were really going to go full-on with this “rhyming with the OT” that he always talked about, the logical (and most effective) thing would be to have Anakin make his first choice to embrace the dark side at the end of Episode II, to mirror Luke making his first choice to embrace the light side at the end of ESB. Then the third episode is about Obi Wan trying to help hide Padme and the kids while also trying to find Anakin and turn him back from the dark side.

      And yeah. Eighty-six the midichlorians entirely. The strength with which the Force runs strong in a person needn’t be quantifiable like that. Even that scene in the theatre would work fine without them. Just take out the microbial middleman. “Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith so powerful and so wise, he could use the Force to create…life.”

    • April 10, 2014 at 5:58 pm
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      Does Anakin find out Palpatine is Sidious in Episode II? I don’t think so, I think he doesn’t find out until Episode III and he’s already too far gone to turn back when he finds out. As Darth Vader said: “It is too late for me, son.”

      As a desperate attempt to turn Anakin to the light side again, Obi-wan reveals to Anakin of Luke. However, Anakin reveals his lust for power and wants to know where Luke is and overthrow the Emperor with Luke. Ties up perfectly, I think.

    • April 10, 2014 at 5:59 pm
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      Obi-wan’s reveal of Luke would be during his battle with Anakin in Episode III, of course.

    • April 10, 2014 at 6:00 pm
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      However, Obi-Wan only knows Padme is pregnant and does not know it is twins. Anakin, however, assumes that his offspring is a boy.

    • April 10, 2014 at 6:44 pm
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      Actually, that would tend to go against Obi Wan’s later statement to Luke that he and Leia were hidden when they were born because of the obvious threat they would pose to the Emperor. If Vader knew of his own offspring’s existence at that point, he would have at least sacked the Lars’ farm looking for him at some point, even if he didn’t know that Luke was actually there. Process of elimination and all that.

      No, I think that Vader had to have found out about Luke after he destroyed the Death Star. I like your idea, but I just don’t see it being possible to hide Luke on the Lars’ farm for 20 years after Vader had learned that he had a kid. Y’know?

    • April 10, 2014 at 6:53 pm
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      Well, Obi Wan just says they were hidden from him. I don’t know that that implies that Vader did not know his offspring were alive. However, even so, it is possible that Padme still dies after Anakin attacks her and Anakin assumes they are dead, mother and child/ren. Padme lives for a few years, long enough for Leia to remember “images” of her mother. Luke could possibly get separated from his sister before or after his mother dies.

    • April 10, 2014 at 6:56 pm
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      What I mean is Padme could have been attacked by Anakin and suffered an injury that Anakin assumed was instantly fatal.

    • April 10, 2014 at 9:49 pm
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      Rebel Scum, I do dig the idea of Anakin assuming that Padme and the baby are dead, which Lucas sort of did in ROTS, but in a pretty weak, offhanded way. “Oh, by the way Darthie Boy… you killed your wife and forgot all about it. Welcome to the Empire, kid.”

      IMHO, the way to do that would be for Padme and Obi Wan to deliberately fake her death, possibly at Vader’s hand, but not necessarily. Not necessarily to trick Vader, but to trick Vader AND the Emperor. Then Obi Wan could have them hide out on Dagobah (“There’s somethin’ familiar about this place…”) while he went off to try to bring Anakin back from the dark side. Either way, Padme and the kids would be safely hidden from the Emperor whether Anakin could be redeemed or not, and the twins could be split up and raised in secret if it ended up being necessary.

    • April 10, 2014 at 11:43 pm
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      i always took leia’s memories of her mother to mean her adoptive mother, wil bail organa, who died at some point after ep3. theres no way a baby could retain images of padme from birth.

      also, i love the speculation here. what i would have done…

      begin ep 1 with a ship in space deploying flying droids… we see these droids make their way through the atmosphere of a planet to the surface, and realise they are tracking someone. It is revealed that they are hunting an 18 Y.O obi wan, who destroys them in the forest (very reminicent of endor…). obiwan destroys them, and continues his treck out of the forest, coming to a clearing, where he is attacked my a man with a light sabre, who begins taunting him of his weaknesses. It is revealed after the brief fight that this man is qui-gon. but instead of boring old qui gon from ep 1, think ra’s al goul from batman begins before he is revealed as the villain. Because qui-gon is supposed to be a bit of a rebel anyways, why not make him interesting?

      …and obi wan has just completed his first jedi trial. Then, a communication from coruscant sends them on their first mission. To rescue the queen of Alderaan (Padme, except her home is not naboo. we are eventually gonna watch aderaan blow up, why not see it first?) and a delegation from the senate, which features senators and the chancellor. Also, the whole thing is a setup by palpatine of course, who we only see as ‘darth sidious’ in holograms. the palpatine reveal can wait for the end of ep 1…

      except Maul is under orders to murder the chancellor, allowing for Palpatine’s ascension, but qui gon stops him. so maul tracks them as they attempt to escape. whilst running from maul, the group ends up on tatooine, where they encounter a 13 year old anakin and his mother, both slaves. Maul kills the chancellor, and anakins mother. this becomes anakins motivation…

      this is all i got, home you all dig it tho!

    • April 11, 2014 at 7:01 pm
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      Man, I couldn’t agree more about replacing Naboo with Alderaan. I never understood why Lucas didn’t do that in the first place. I mean, Naboo basically WAS Alderaan – a relatively pacifistic society operating under a monarchy, Luke and Leia’s mother was from there, etc. Why not set up Alderaan as this place that we actually know well by the time it gets blown up in Episode IV?

      I always thought that a good plot wrinkle would be for Palpatine to have discovered how to clone Jedi, so that they could be framed for stuff like the assassination of the chancellor. This may have also provided another reason as to why Jedi Masters began learning to make their physical bodies vanish after their death, if the possibility of their bodies being used for clones was what had brought about their downfall.

  • April 10, 2014 at 3:18 pm
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    Again, prequel fans get dissed. I see a pattern going on…

  • April 10, 2014 at 4:12 pm
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    7-th screenshot – Iron Throne from Game of Thrones in Star Wars universe, LoL 🙂

  • April 10, 2014 at 4:13 pm
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    Maul didnt have very many lines because Ray Park cant act, he’s just a martial artist/stuntman/choreographer. Thats why he didnt have that many lines when he played Toad in the original Xmen. They just wanted a badass.

    • April 10, 2014 at 4:28 pm
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      Dave Prowse didn’t have ANY lines as Darth Vader. And neither, really did Ray Park. His lines were all overdubbed by Peter Serafinowicz (Pete, the roommate in Shaun of the Dead.)

      So yeah, they could have done a lot more with the Darth Maul character than they did, despite Ray Park not being much of an actor.

    • April 10, 2014 at 4:33 pm
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      Shaun of the Dead? One of the coolest movies in the 00’s decade!

    • April 10, 2014 at 4:52 pm
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      It sure was! (Just don’t say the zed word… it’s ridiculous.) ;^)

  • April 10, 2014 at 5:00 pm
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    Personally, I always felt it was a mistake to make Anakin a child in Episode I. Not only did it require that they start all over again with a new actor finding the role in Episode II (rather than building on what he’d done in Episode I, as Mark Hamill did in ESB) but it also missed the perfect opportunity to have Anakin’s story reflect Luke’s by starting them both at about the same age.

    But if one were to keep the PT story as it is, your idea would work really, really well. The big goodbye scene between Anakin and his mother could be interrupted by Maul stepping out of the shadows, dropping down off of a roof, or what have you. And then the fight could occur there rather than out in the desert.

    • April 10, 2014 at 5:04 pm
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      Meant to post this as part of a thread above, rather than as a new post. Now, how the heck do I delete THIS one? I know there’s gotta be a delete button right in front of me here that I’m just not seeing…

    • April 10, 2014 at 5:10 pm
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      No I think it was awesome casting. You have to admit the fight between him and Qui-gon/ Obi-wan was awesome. I think GL didnt have much of a story planned out for Maul so they just cast a martial artist.

    • April 10, 2014 at 8:34 pm
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      I completely agree. Park was excellent as Maul inasmuch as he was really playing a mime role where he could express everything visually. Every time I see that fight between Maul, Qui Gon and Obi Wan, I always wish like hell that it took place in a better movie overall.

      And no, Lucas had no story whatsoever planned out for Maul. He was designed to be little more than an impressive-looking throwaway villain. Had Lucas established him as one of the main villains of the PT (with Serafinowicz continuing to provide vocal overdubs) I think it would have really given Anakin a more believable motivation for his fall to the dark side. Palpatine convinces him that it’s the only way to defeat Maul, and Anakin takes the bait.

  • April 10, 2014 at 5:04 pm
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    Could someone please explain for me what this part of the article means…’George Lucas himself shifted the direction of Damage drastically, with the story involving Darth Krayt and Darth Talon, known within Star Wars’ Dark Horse Comics canon’. Sorry, couldn’t get my head around what is meant by this

    • April 10, 2014 at 5:05 pm
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      I think that Dark Horse published a comic series (or was planning to) that continued the Maul story from TCW. I’m not 100% sure about that, though.

    • April 11, 2014 at 12:43 am
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      There was/is(?) comic series called ‘Legacy,’ that takes place roughly 150 years after ROTJ. I’m really interested in what Lucas wanted to do with those characters actually.. On a side note the twi’lek on the first picture resembles Darth Talon

  • April 10, 2014 at 7:10 pm
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    Wow!
    That looks fantastic!
    I can’t wait for this to be releaszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz …..

  • April 10, 2014 at 9:18 pm
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    Time to put Maul back to death.

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