Blue Beetle Film in the works
 

There is a new superhero in the movie mix, and his name is Jaime Reyes, a.k.a. Blue Beetle. DC and Warner Bros. are developing a Blue Beetle movie, the first Latino-led standalone superhero feature, according to The Wrap. Mexican-born screenwriter Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer will pen the screenplay, with Zev Foreman executive producing for Warner Bros.

Jaime Reyes’ Blue Beetle first appeared in comic form in 2006’s Infinite Crisis #3 (and makes our list of the 20 DC superheroes we still need to see on the big or small screen). Reyes has appeared on the small screen, briefly, in the CW series Smallville, as well as in animated form in Young Justice. As Gregory Ellwood wrote, “Unlike Ted Kord, whose Beetle would remind most moviegoers of Owl Man in Watchmen, Reyes’ abilities are provided by the powerful Blue Beetle scarab which has fused itself to his back. It transforms into a protective suit of armor around him that if you described as an alien Iron Man suit wouldn’t be that off base.”
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Mexican-American teenager Jaime Reyes is the third iteration of the character, and as The Wrap adds, “[he] discovered the Blue Beetle scarab on the way home from school with two of his best friends Paco and Brenda, half-buried in a disused lot. Reyes took the scarab home, curious as to what it might be. That night, the scarab came alive, and grafted itself to the base of Jaime’s spine, and provided him with a suit of extraterrestrial armor which can be modified to enhance his speed and strength, as well as to create weapons, wings and shields.”

A few years ago (2015 to be exact), there were rumors of a Booster Gold and Blue Beetle team-up movie, helmed by CW super-producer Greg Berlanti. That version would have featured the Ted Kord version of Blue Beetle, which honestly, we don’t really need. Jamie Reyes gives us something new and different within the crowded superhero landscape. Though there are Latino characters within the DC movie universe, (like Jay Hernandez as El Diablo in Suicide Squad, and Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya in the upcoming Birds of Prey), this is certainly the first Latino hero to lead a solo film.

http://collider.com/blue-beetle-movi...m=social#comic

Will this actually go forward or like Blue & Gold remain in development hell? Ted Kord is my young sibling's favorite hero so another failed push for Reyes is DC pushing diversity over quality.

Kord is cute and all in the bwahaha league, but Reyes is the best Beetle.

Reyes is more popular and is the current Blue Beetle so it makes sense. Not to mention Reyes is on young justice and is in the Injustice and Lego DC Super Villains game too

Blue Beetle will be an HBO MAX movie so not in theaters

https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...e-dreams-alive

‘Cobra Kai’ Star Xolo Maridueña in Talks to Star as Latino Superhero ‘Blue Beetle’ for HBO Max (Exclusive)

https://www.thewrap.com/cobra-kai-st...mpression=true

Hah. I'm not super interested in a Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle movie... but that guy would be perfect.

Yeah, he'd be a good fit but I'm only interested in Ted Kord as Blue Beetle.

Coming to theaters after all. 8/18/23.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/blue-be...x-for-cinemas/

Sharon Stone in final talks to be playing a Villain Specifically for this movie Victoria Kord


Also Raoul Max Trujillo (Mayans M.C.) has also joined the cast as secondary antagonist, Carapax the Indestructible Man.

https://comicbookmovie.com/blue_beet...2906#gs.v4kkom

Wasn't she playing villain in a Catwoman with Hally Berry?

Blue Beetle will be in theaters Aug. 18, 2023

Announced at Cinemacon

https://twitter.com/TheRochaSays/sta...99773222981633

Fuuuck. It looks just like him. This is what effort looks like.

Yeah, I really don't care about Jaime Reyes at all - I bought the entire first run of his Blue Beetle series and for the life of me I can't remember a single thing that happened in it except for him having a fight with Guy Gardner in the first issue, and a bunch of "Who Is Black Beetle?" stuff that went f*cking NOWHERE and was nothing but fake-out "reveal" after fake-out "reveal", which got annoying really fast - but I gotta give them props, the suit looks like he just stepped right off the comics' page.

I probably won't see it, but it looks like they're trying at least. They've got more wiggle room with this property than most of their bigger ones, because as I said, the actual Blue Beetle comics with Jaime were SO much "nothing" that they can pretty much do anything they want with the movie and it'll feel like an improvement.

I just hope they don't go overboard with 'ese', 'homes' and 'vato' and whatnot.

They might. The original Jaime series was much less a "super-hero" comic and more about being a young Latino in a small town with a traditional overprotective Hispanic family and how he couldn't tell his mother (or someone, I forget) he was a super-hero because the shock would be too much and might kill her, all that stuff.

I don't remember it necessarily becoming self-parody with all that stuff, but it was definitely way more concerned with being a book about a Latino boy and his family that only incidentally had anything super-hero related. Which I'm sure spoke strongly to a certain audience but did nothing for me, personally. I kept wanting to see if they were actually going to do anything significant with this brand new character they just "had" to kill off Ted Kord to make room for, but they really never did. He peaked with his first real story, where his scarab armor made him invisible to Brother Eye during Infinite Crisis, and after that it was just family dinners and stuff going on at school.

I guess it was kind of like early Spider-Man with some Hispanic flavor and I get that. I wouldn't say it was "bad", I know a lot of people really love it; I personally just found it way too slow and uneventful. Again, the Black Beetle stuff became such a meme so fast they even started parodying it in the stories themselves. "I'm really ______ from the future... OR AM I?!" :lol:

I'unno, it was okay, just not my kind of super-hero stuff. I'm okay with slice of life stuff but I much prefer the balance be more like 80/20 in favor of "actual super-hero stuff". I can see why it had an audience but it fell to the bottom of my monthly reading pile very quickly. I kept waiting for it to feel "important" and it never, ever did.

Saw this on FB:

"George Lopez, a cast member in DC's upcoming #BlueBeetle movie, has seemingly revealed that the film will feature a cameo by none other than Ben Affleck's #Batman !
Blue Beetle, one of the few DC Universe film projects to survive the Warner Bros. content purge, will apparently feature a cameo from an A-list hero... at least if cast member George Lopez was being serious in a recent interview.
In an appearance on The Bryon Scott Podcast, Lopez, who plays Rudy Reyes, the uncle of the titular hero, lauded the film for its imminent unveiling of "the first Latino superhero," wrought by a Latino producer, writer and director. The film will see Cobra Kai breakout actor Xolo Maridueña embody the starring role as the Mexican-American teen-turned superhero Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle, and Lopez explained how the film could potentially yield as many as 10 more appearances, per his own contract. However, he may have taken his comments about the film's prospects a tad too far when he -- in a somewhat nonchalant manner -- dropped some potent news about a secret cameo in the film, stating, "I think Batman is in our movie.""

Interesting. And if it's Affleck... is this something refilmed from Keaton?

For some reason I didn't realize the same spanish kid from Cobra Kai was Blue Beetle. His role as Miguel seems to be coming to an end, I wonder if this will be a breakout movie for him.

This is the only blue beetle I'm interested in-

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