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Blue Beetle Movie Featuring Jaime Reyes Coming From Director Angel Manuel Soto
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After numerous false starts, the Jaime ReyesBlue Beetle is finally going to make his way to the screen again, in a new movie directed by Angel Manuel Soto. The character made his live-action debut on
Smallville, in an episode that centered around Booster Gold. Those two characters are frequently found together, and most of the movie and TV rumors have have hovered around the character of Blue Beetle have also included Booster, although it is not yet clear whether that will be the case here. In many of his appearances, Jaime can be found palling around with a version of Peacemaker, a character who is set to appear in
Blue Beetle, the first Latino superhero film for DC,” Soto told
The Wrap. “I want to sincerely thank everyone at Warner Bros. and DC for trusting me to bring Jaime Reyes to life. I can’t wait to make history together.”
The superhero known as Blue Beetle dates all the way back to the now-defunct Fox Comics in the late 1930s, but the character has done a fair bit of shuffling around to publishers over the decades. By the 1980s Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle, had migrated from Charlton Comics (who landed the rights after Fox went under) to DC Comics, where he and other Charlton mainstays joined the DC Universe. Kord was
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DC’s Blue Beetle is taking his first steps towards being the face of the publisher’s first Latinx-lead film, and perhaps the first Latinx superhero to hit the big screen in their own live-action movie.
According to The Wrap, Puerto Rican director Angel Manuel Soto (director of HBO Max’s
Charm City Kings) will bring the Blue Beetle movie
to life. The film is set to start production this fall with a script by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer. It will follow Jaime Reyes, the third character to bear the name Blue Beetle.
Created by Keith Giffen, John Rogers, and Cully Hamner in the 2006 miniseries
Blue Beetle
, the first Latino superhero film for DC,” Soto said in a statement. “
I want to sincerely thank everyone at Warner Bros. and DC for trusting me to bring Jaime Reyes to life. I can’t wait to make history together.”
The announcement of a film centered on the Jamie Reyes iteration of the titular hero first came in 2018 with Zev Foreman attached as executive producer on the project for WB and Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, writer of the Gina Rodriguez-starrer
Miss Bala and a previous draft of Universal’s long-in-development
Scarface remake, set to write the screenplay. Sources report that the studio is eyeing a fall production start date for the film, with Foreman and Dunnet-Alcocer still in their respective positions.