Blue Beetle

DC Studios Drops Official Trailer for 'Blue Beetle': The film showing DC Comic's first Latinx superhero features a cast and crew of Latin-American actors.

Originally conceptualized for [HBO Max](https://hypebeast.com/tags/hbo-max), the upcoming film is directed by Angel Manuel Soto and centered around the first Latin [DC Comics](https://hypebeast.com/tags/dc-comics) superhero. The official trailer for Blue Beetle shows how Jaime Reyes, played by Xolo Maridueña, acquires the Scarab. Pictures](https://hypebeast.com/tags/warner-bros-pictures) have now dropped the official trailer for [Blue Beetle](https://hypebeast.com/tags/blue-beetle).

Xolo Mariduena stars as Jaime Reyes, a teenager with superpowers from an alien scarab, in the Blue Beetle trailer. The film will hit theaters on August 18, ...

Blue Beetle is set to release on August 18, 2023, and is expected to be a game-changer in the world of superhero movies. With Mariduena's stellar performance and the talented cast, Blue Beetle is shaping up to be an exciting addition to the DC Universe. The 21-year-old actor, who is also the first [Latino](/topic/latino)actor to play the main role in a DC superhero film, completely owns the role of the teenage superhero, who gains his powers from an alien scarab that attaches itself to him. [Susan Sarandon](/topic/susan-sarandon)portrays [Victoria Kord](/topic/victoria-kord), a character whose exact role is yet to be revealed. He added that he felt honored to play the role of Jaime Reyes and that it was a dream come true for him to be cast as Blue Beetle. Mariduena's performance in the trailer shows his character's transformation into Blue Beetle, sporting a blue costume that sets him apart from other superhero characters.

In the months since Discovery acquired Warner Bros., CEO David Zaslav's disdain for big-budget HBO Max original movies has shifted the company's priorities ...

The director's creative team behind the scenes includes director of photography Pawel Pogorzelski ("Midsommar," "Hereditary"), production designer John Billington ("Bad Boys for Life"), editor Craig Alpert ("Deadpool 2," "The Lost City"), Oscar-nominated costume designer Mayes C. ) as Carapax, with Oscar winner Susan Sarandon ("Monarch," "Dead Man Walking") as Victoria Kord, and George Lopez (the "Rio and "Smurf" franchises) as Jaime's Uncle Rudy. The film also stars Belissa Escobedo ("American Horror Stories," "Hocus Pocus 2") as Jaime's sister, Milagro, and Harvey Guillén ("What We Do in the Shadows") as Dr. "The studio kind of allowed me to run free in my creativity, and unbeknownst to them and to me, I guess what they were able to see as the promise of how we picture Palmera City, how we really wanted the suit to be, and how in the bigger realm of this cultural side is the impact that this can have culturally," Soto continued. "But also in the superhero genre as just so to try something different, with the hopes that people will see it as this, for the hope that people can see it as what it is, it's very, a lot of love, a lot of heart. And it doesn't really have to be with saving the planet from this fake invasion, but it's actually something that can relate to, which, for some of us, is bigger than life.

The debut of young Jaime Reyes represents a sea change in this troublesome franchise. Will the long-awaited film be a new beginning?

Back with their own series Ted Kord (Blue Beetle) and Booster Gold get to work together again, but we also get Jaime Reyes making an appearance as well! If you' ...

From Jaime Reyes' powers to former Blue Beetles' costumes, here are 9 Blue Beetle trailer Easter Eggs and how they tie into the DC Universe.

Blue Beetle is a DC Comics character famous for his inventive gadgets, acrobatic skills, and heroic spirit. He has been one with the DC Universe for over 80 ...

In recent years, DC Comics has introduced a new version of Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes, which is also the subject of the aforementioned movie. The original Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett, was created by Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski and first appeared in Mystery Men Comics #1 in 1939. Blue Beetle is a DC Comics character famous for his inventive gadgets, acrobatic skills, and heroic spirit.

El Paso fans, however, may be disappointed the Sun City is left out of the just-released trailer for the Latino DC comic book superhero. The trailer was ...

Warner Bros. and DC Studios unleashes an electrifying look at their upcoming superhero flick.

Fury of the Gods''' poor commercial and critical performance still lingering in the box office air, let's hope "Blue Beetle" provides some lucrative levity to the fast-fading superhero genre. The movie also features Belissa Escobedo ("Hocus Pocus 2") as Jaime’s sister, Milagro, and Harvey Guillén ("What We Do in the Shadows") as Dr. ) as his mother, Bruna Marquezine ("God Save the King") as Jenny Kord, Raoul Max Trujillo ("Sicario") as Carapax, alongside Susan Sarandon ("Dead Man Walking") as Victoria Kord, and comedian George Lopez as Jaime’s Uncle Rudy. "Blue Beetle" co-stars Adriana Barraza ("Rambo: Last Blood") as Jaime’s grandmother, Nana, Damían Alcázar ("Narcos") as his father, Elpidia Carrillo ("Mayans M.C." [best DC extended universe movies](https://www.space.com/dc-extended-universe-movies-ranked) to prepare for the Blue Beetle's arrival. When the Scarab suddenly chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he is bestowed with an incredible suit of armor capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero Blue Beetle."

A moment from the Blue Beetle trailer showed the costumes of the two previous Blue Beetles. These two heroes have quite a long comics history.

But he was still the Blue Beetle, and used his gadgets and training (and eventually, his vast wealth from his company) to fight crime. The writers of that book teamed him up [with Booster Gold](https://nerdist.com/article/who-is-dc-comics-character-booster-gold-comic-origins-explained-multiverse-friendship-with-blue-beetle/), another hero with a recently canceled series. [the multiversal event Crisis on Infinite Earths](https://nerdist.com/article/crisis-on-infinite-earths-history-legacy/), Ted Kord became part of the main DC Universe. Eventually, comics publisher Fox went out of business, and for a long time, that was the end of the Dan Garret Blue Beetle. His solo series only ran for five issues in 1967, but in the ‘80s, DC Comics bought publisher Chartlon Comics’ characters, and Ted had a whole new life. This Blue Beetle was Ted Kord, a student of Dan Garrett’s. [the new Blue Beetle trailer](https://nerdist.com/article/blue-beetle-first-trailer-dc-comics-dcu-superhero-movie/) shows he was not the first to wear the mantle. The scarab gave him super powers, and he fought crime for a few years. His girlfriend was a feisty reporter in the Lois Lane tradition. The original Blue Beetle debuted in 1939 from Fox Comics, a mere few months after Batman debuted at DC. The original Beetle was Dan Garret, and there was shockingly little that was unique about Dan. They have a long comics history, with the first Blue Beetle going all the way back to the 1930s.

Expected in theaters on August 18, the Warner Bros film makes history as it will be the first time the DC Super hero makes it on the big screen.

DC shows a remarkable transition in the trailer as the Scarab consumes Reyers to become part of the suit. The sequencing of the trailer seems spot, as DC explains how Blue Beetle ties into the DC universe. Fresh of DC Studio’s shelves comes Blue Beetle a film about an American superhero based on DC Comics character Jaime Reyers.

The trailer for DCEU and Warner Bros.'s live-action adaptation of Blue Beetle just dropped, and the fandom is ecstatic as a beloved but slightly underrated ...

Charlton Comics went out of business in the mid-1980s, and Ted Kord’s version of Blue Beetle was incorporated into the DC Universe — even becoming a member of the Justice League shortly after the character was acquired by DC. But we’re here to take a deeper dive into the origins of DC’s Blue Beetle and the generational legacy that stretches all the way to the How does that translate to the upcoming Blue Beetle film? In the DC version, it was actually presumed that Ted Kord lost the Scarab early in his crime-fighting career, but the truth is that he actually lost the Scarab on a visit to the Rock of Eternity, the home of the wizard Shazam. Fox Feature Syndicate, a subsidiary of Fox Publishing, went out of business, and Blue Beetle and several other characters were bought by Charlton Comics. Well, we’re here to discuss the origins of DC’s Blue Beetle and the multi-generational history that’s surprisingly not that comprehensive.