In the wake of Warner Bros. Discovery scrapping the $90 million “Batgirl” film for tax write-off reasons, the fate of various other DC projects at Warner Bros. Pictures quickly became an understandable concern.
Chief amongst those was the “Blue Beetle” film. Whilst “Black Adam” and the “Aquaman” sequel are the kinds of films big enough that the studio would be highly unlikely to ditch them, this is a smaller movie that had only just wrapped filming a few weeks before the guillotine came down on Batgirl.
Puerto Rican director Angel Manuel Soto however has good news. Speaking with NPR recently, he says: “I’m not going to lie. There was concern, anger, fear at first” but adds that studio executives reassured him the film won’t suffer the fate of “Batgirl,” and says: “They told me not to worry, the film has their full support.”
21-year-old “Cobra Kai” actor Xolo Maridueña stars as Jaime Reyes, a first-generation Mexican-American kid from El Paso who becomes the eponymous hero when he’s implanted with super-powered alien armor.
Explaining his power set, Maridueña says: “He’s kind of like a fusion of Green Lantern and Iron Man. He has a scarab from outer space that is attached to his body called Khaji da.”
Gareth Dunnet Alcocer wrote the screenplay for Blue Beetle, which follows the journey of Reyes and his entire family.
