While Solo: A Star Wars Story features familiar faces and references from decades of franchise lore, a certain cameo undoubtedly surprised audiences. Darth Maul was revealed as the mastermind behind Crimson Dawn. His cameo appearance in the movie was never even rumoured so the fact he shows up here obviously leaves us with a lot of questions about where things go from here.
Uproxx spoke to screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan and Jonathan Kasdan about the return of Maul, a character who Jonathan wanted to include in this movie since the very beginning.
I was really passionate about him all the way through. I sort of had planted the seeds early and I wanted it to be built that way. And I wanted to reference certain forms of martial arts that might lead to it. And the presence of someone who was so terrifying in this crime world that you just had to know he was the guy who could control someone like Dryden. So he was part of the DNA of the thing.
So, the inclusion of Maul as a tease at the end of this movie seems to set up a future showdown between Maul and Han Solo in another movie. Han has, of course, always been rather skeptical of the Force so if he ever encounters Maul, which seems highly likely if we get a sequel to this movie, surely that would change how he feels about the Jedi in A New Hope.
In theaters now, director Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story stars Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, Emilia Clarke and Joonas Suotamo.
Source: Uproxx
