Last year Game Informer wrote an article about a cancelled Star Wars game based around The Phantom Menace’s villain, Darth Maul. The game was in development by RedFly Studios and was canned along with any other games in development under the LucasArts brand when it and its parent LucasFilm was sold to Disney in 2011. The game had little more than concept art and a short gameplay demo that was never shown in any promotional capacity and chances of it resurfacing was slim.
That was the case until head of RedFly Studios Dan Borth held an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit on October 24 and stated that he and the rest of the team have been working on pitching a more polished version of the Darth Maul game concept to publishers such as EA and Disney. His words were:
“BTW we are currently working on a full next gen demo of all things Maul to show to the powers that be. It’s been a lot of work on our off time.”
Since the game was technically cancelled in 2011, RedFly has been working on bringing the project back to life and want to tell the origin story of Maul with his progression to Darth Sidious’ apprentice. Disney has not commented as of yet on the social media push RedFly has began but it certainly wouldn’t be out of their wheelhouse to take a look and possibly help partner them with a third-party publisher seeing as LucasArts is no more and Disney Interactive are working on Disney Infinity and their new Playmation project.
If you want to check out the full AMA yourself, you can do so here.
