DC Studios has released the first official poster for Blue Beetle.Shared on the DC Comics Twitter account, the poster gives fans a shiny and detailed look at the titular hero's main weapon, the Scarab. This is the alien device that embeds itself into the back of young Jaime Reyes, giving him a hi-tech suit of armor and weaponry to fight crime and superhuman threats.
While there has been more than one Blue Beetle to exist within the DC Universe, the movie is set to focus on Jaime Reyes, with Cobra Kai star Xolo Maridueña bringing the character to life onscreen. Jaime Reyes first appeared in Infinite Crisis #3 back in 2006, the third hero to take on the mantle of Blue Beetle after Dan Garrett and Ted Kord. Jaime Reyes has been adapted for both animation and live-action in the past, appearing in television series like Young Justice, Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Smallville, portrayed in live-action then by actor Jaren Brandt Bartlett.
The upcoming film is set to be the first major Latino-led superhero movie. Actors joining Maridueña for the project include What We Do In The Shadows' Harvey Guillén, comedian George Lopez and more, including Bruna Marquezine, Belissa Escobedo, Adriana Barraza, Elpidia Carrillo and Damián Alcázar. Actors Susan Sarandon and Raoul Max Trujillo are set to play villains in the movie, specifically Victoria Kord and Conrad Carapax/Carpax the Indestructible Man, respectively.
Blue Beetle Releases While the DCU Is Changing
Blue Beetle is one of a few movies set to release that started production under DC Films before the company rebranded as DC Studios and went through an executive shift. The company is now run by co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran, who have begun mapping out the future of the cinematic DC Universe. Gunn has revealed that the revamped DCU will connect across film, live-action television and animation, but not all projects released may connect to the same universe.
Whether Blue Beetle will be in the main DCU remains to be seen, but Lopez possibly revealed in early November that a version of Batman appears in the film, saying on a podcast, "I think Batman is in our movie." There are currently three different actors playing Batman across DC Studios projects, with both actors Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton set to reprise their Dark Knights in The Flash (2023), Affleck doing so again for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), while Robert Pattinson portrays a younger Bruce Wayne in the universe growing out of Matt Reeves' The Batman (2022).
Blue Beetle flies into theaters on Aug. 18, 2023.
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