WARNING: Potential spoilers lie ahead. If you haven’t seen Solo: A Star Wars Story yet, you may want to stop right here and come back after you’ve had time to watch the film. Otherwise, you’ve been warned…
It goes without much debate that the most surprising aspect of director Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story occurred towards the end of the standalone film when the one and only Darth Maul made his appearance on screen in front of Qi’ra in the form of a hologram. StarWars.com provides us with a must-read article for fans that aims to connect the dots between Maul’s appearance in Solo: A Star Wars Story and the 4-issue Dark Horse comic series titled Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir from a few years ago. Check out the intro the the piece copied below and then head on over to the official site for more.
Maul’s search for power brings him far from where he once stood as a Sith apprentice on Coruscant. In Solo: A Star Wars Story, Maul rules the many cruel branches of the Crimson Dawn cartel. Even without the Force, his agent Dryden Vos is a formidable gangster — and Maul isn’t looking for a Force-sensitive heir. Instead he wants to recruit ruthless criminal strivers like Qi’ra, whose desperation leads her to make her own dark decision.
Between what appeared to be his death in The Phantom Menace and Maul’s reappearance on the big screen in Solo: A Star Wars Story, the scheming Zabrak has had a long history, including a surprising rebirth in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. In the comic series Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir, a story based on unproduced scripts from the animated series, more of his history was revealed.
