Star Wars: Park Wants To See Darth Maul Return

While attending the Wizard World Comic-Con in New York City last weekend, Ray Park told
Geek News that he would be interested in playing Darth Maul again in Star Wars: Episode VII or any of the new films now in the works.

"Just give me food and water, and I’m there". He adds that he'd love to see the character ramped up a bit, armed potentially with two double-bladed lightsabers.

Despite the character being cut in half during the last act of "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace," Maul returned in the CG animated TV series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" voiced by Sam Witwer. In the series, he survived and now has a robotic arachnid-like lower half.

Let's face it Maul was one of the BEST things about "Menace". I would cheer his return in any way...I thought he was gonna be around a lot longer in the prequels...Park got "shafted"...

Oscar winner Michael Arndt ("Toy Story 3," "Little Miss Sunshine") is writing the script for the “Star Wars: Episode VII that J.J. Abrams directs The script is said to include Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo in their later years. No official word yet if Mark Hamill could be tempted to return as Luke Skywalker but he is interested... Carrie Fisher had all but confirmed that she would be back in the role of Princess Leia--but then her rep told CNN that she 'was joking'  Harrison Ford is also interested..."

Franchise creator George Lucas told Bloomberg Businessweek that he begun talks with original stars to have them return to for its new films -- before he had even begun the process of the ultimately $2 billion deal between Disney/Lucasfilm.

Fellow Original castmates Billy Dee Williams and Anthony Daniels say that they are keen on returning to that "galaxy far, far, away".

Writers Lawrence Kasdan ("The Empire Strikes Back," "Raiders of the Lost Ark") and Simon Kinberg ("Sherlock Holmes," "X-Men: Days of Future Past") have reportedly closed deals to pen the final two installments of the new "Star Wars" trilogy. Kasdan and Kinberg are also indeed developing stand alone Star Wars features.

Kasdan and Kinberg would also join the projects as producers with Kathleen Kennedy.