The trailer, released Monday, introduces audiences to Jaime Reyes, a recent college graduate who gains super-powered armor after encounter with an alien scarab and must come to terms with his newfound abilities, while uncovering the reason the scarab was sent to Earth. In the comics, the character lives in El Paso, Texas, but in the movie he will inhabit Palmera City, a location created for the project. Cobra Kai actor Xolo Maridueña stars in the feature from director Angel Manuel Soto and writer Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer. This marks DC’s first film to center on a Latino superhero, with Jaime Reyes’ family a key part of the movie. “The family aspect to this movie and to the character is inherent to the comics and so special,” Maridueña told The Hollywood Reporter last year. “The family we’ve been able to create in the movie — the mom, dad, uncle, sister, grandmother — I feel like that aspect of being a superhero hasn’t been tapped into a ton.” Blue Beetle is also one of three DC films still to be released that were made before James Gunn and Peter Safran were hired to run DC Studios. The Flash (June 16) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (Dec. 25) are the others. The fate of those franchises are uncertain, as Gunn and Safran are planning their own DC slate. The the executives have said there is nothing that precludes any of those actors or characters continuing on, though their initial plans did not include features known to star those characters. Blue Beetle was initially envisioned as an HBO Max film, but Warner Bros. upgraded it to theatrical in late 2021. It is slated for Aug. 18. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/blue-beetle-trailer-xolo-mariduena-1235365766/
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If people are already burnt out and losing interest when it comes to the much better property in Marvel, how is DC gonna survive?
The Blue Beetle comic character started out in the Golden Age of comics and has been around as long as Batman - they both got their start in the 1930's, but Blue Beetle's been retcon'ed and passed from publisher to publisher over the years/decades. I think I have a few of his comics, but they're from the 1960's version of the character. I actually think this looks pretty cool, which pretty much means somebody's going to screw it all up.
I think this would have done extremely well as an HBOmax show. But, most people have no clue who Blue Beetle is so it's an uphill battle trying to introduce him and make people care enough to buy tickets. I think the DCs Spiderman thing will actually work against them too. Everyone already loves Spiderman so people comparing the two isn't a plus.
Why did this movie happen? What in the **** has been going on at Warner for the past 10 years? How can they keep ****ing up like this? And, most importantly: why won't they give me millions of dollars to waste?
Some deluded WB exec thinks the superhero craze is still at it's apex and that DC is awesome material for film. TBH, I will watch this one when it hits Max, but zero interest in seeing it at the theatre. You know, that was such a disappointing show for me as a kid. Like 2% actual hero time, the rest was just the main character bumbling around life.
