Blue Beetle hits theaters in August
Update: Produced by Warner Bros Blue Beetle trailer is private, as the footage seems to have been posted a few hours earlier than planned. We’ll update this post as soon as it becomes available again.
Before the reboot by Warner Bros. the entire DC Films umbrella, it has another new superhero to introduce to you: Jamie Reyes, the Blue Beetle. The first trailer for Blue Beetle teasing look at (Cobra Kai‘s) Xolo Maridueña as Jamie, and his encounter with the alien scarab Khaji Da.
The new trailer covers much of Jaime’s film origin story — a strange encounter with a piece of alien technology, a close-knit family group, and a threatening presence of corporate power. Along with Maridueña, the cast includes George Lopez (George Lopez) as Jaime’s uncle Rudy, Susan Sarandon (Thelma and Louise) as Victoria Kord, Raoul Trujillo (Apocalypto) as the villain Carapax, and Harvey Guillén (What We Do In The Shadows) in an anonymous paper.
Who is Blue Beetle?
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There are many answers to that question, as Blue Beetle is one of the “legacy” characters of DC Comics, where the writers introduced younger, more modern characters who took up the mantle of their predecessor. The first Blue Beetle was a war-time superhero, a policeman who donned bulletproof armor and took sci-fi vitamin supplements by moonlight as a vigilante. The second is Ted Kord, a genius inventor and self-made industrialist who styles himself as a wise-cracking superhero out of love for the Justice League and their good deeds.
The third hero, and the star of Blue Beetledirected by Puerto Rican filmmaker Angel Manuel Soto (Charm City Kings), is Jamie, who gets his wild powers and an even wilder, bug-legged suit from an ancient piece of technology developed by an alien race called the Reach. In the form of a blue, metallic scarab, the device binds to Jamie, introduces itself as Khaji Da and grants him Iron Man-style powers. The only catch was that Jaime couldn’t get rid of the scarab; he can only shrink it to scarab-size and hide it on his back. Also, he and Khaji Da don’t always agree on the best superhero course of action.
Blue Beetle hits theaters on August 18.
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