With DC Studios having released “Blue Beetle” in cinemas this past Friday, the film included a mid-credits scene that had to walk a delicate line.
Said credits stinger had to tease what could be a continuing story in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new DCU, but in a way that doesn’t lock said DCU into anything and could end up being jettisoned if they decide to go a different direction.
SPOILERS AHEAD FOR “BLUE BEETLE”
The result was a scene that indicates that the character Ted Kord, the first Blue Beetle who has been missing and presumed dead, is alive but no-one knows where he is. The character doesn’t appear in the film, thus leaving the door open to whomever they want to cast.
Now, the film’s director Angel Manuel Soto has spoken to EW about the inclusion of the Ted Kord character easter egg, and how Gunn and Safran’s plans for a “Booster Gold” TV series prompted the idea:
“We all love Ted Kord and Booster Gold, and knowing that James Gunn also has plans for Booster Gold, it felt like the right thing for us to continue with.
Ted Kord is still alive, he’s somewhere out there in the universe, and whatever the future holds for our hero is open to interpretation.
So, whether that is Booster Gold or Ted Kord or if it is both of them [together], the possibility exists and it is something that we want to entertain.”
Separately in an interview with The Digital Fix, Soto spoke about whom he’d like to see play Kord on screen. It turns out a certain actor known for playing another Ted, specifically “Ted Lasso” star Jason Sudeikis, would be his idea casting:
“My dream cast for Ted Kord has always been Jason Sudeikis. But at the end of the day, it’s about who’s best for the character, who loves what we’re trying to do. And who’s willing to see Jaime Reyes’ story continue.”
Soto also offered Collider a brief update on the “Transformers” movie he was developing pre-writer’s strike saying:
“I pitched them an idea. I read a script, I didn’t like it, and I pitched them a whole different idea, and they liked it, but then it was too late. So they told me, ‘Yeah, we cannot do your idea, but we like your idea, so we want you to write the idea and then direct it.’ So, we’ve been in that process, but the writers’ strike happened. [Laughs] It will be different, it will be different.”
Plot and casting specifics regarding Soto’s “Transformers” project are under wraps, with no further details available.
