{"id":74692,"date":"2026-04-06T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74692"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:38:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:38:01","slug":"star-wars-actor-sam-witwer-says-a-darth-maul-game-could-be-something-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74692","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Actor Sam Witwer Says A Darth Maul Game Could Be Something Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a new spin-off animated series coming out this month, Maul is back in the Star Wars spotlight. Since his first appearance in 1999&#8217;s Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, the former Dark Lord of the Sith has become one of the series&#8217; most popular characters and has appeared in several video games over the years. Even though Maul has never starred in his own game, his current voice actor believes there is a chance to tell an &#8220;incredible&#8221; story if given the chance.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/discussingfilm\/status\/2040957469271248951\">Discussing Film<\/a>, actor Sam Witwer shared that he would love to see a Maul video game happen someday. &#8220;I&#8217;ve become convinced we could do an incredible story, yeah,&#8221; Witwer said. &#8220;If you asked me, maybe two years ago, I don&#8217;t know. Yeah, probably, I would have said yes anyway. But now I&#8217;m like, &#8216;I know what we can do with him,&#8217; for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Witwer is very familiar with both Star Wars and video games. His voice and likeness were used for Darth Vader&#8217;s secret apprentice, Galen Marek, in 2008&#8217;s The Force Unleashed and its 2010 sequel. Since then, Witwer has often voiced Maul in TV shows and games, including major roles in Star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a new spin-off animated series coming out this month, Maul is back in the Star Wars spotlight. Since his first appearance in 1999&#8217;s Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, the former Dark Lord of the Sith has become one of the series&#8217; most popular characters and has appeared in several video games over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":74694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74695,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74692\/revisions\/74695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}