Followers have lastly gotten a glimpse of Xolo Maridueña (Cobra Kai) as Jaime Reyes within the first trailer for DCU’s upcoming superhero flick Blue Beetle.
In Blue Beetle, current faculty grad Jaime Reyes returns to Palmera Metropolis stuffed with aspirations for his future, solely to search out that residence is just not fairly as he left it. Destiny intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an historic relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab. When the Scarab chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he’s bestowed with a go well with of armor able to extraordinary and unpredictable powers. Blue Beetle marks the DC supehero’s first time on the large display, and a portion of the movie will likely be in Spanish with subtitles.
Watch the high-flying, action-packed trailer now:
“One of many issues that we actually needed to do with the forged was to have the ability to be as genuine as we are able to,” director Angel Manuel Soto instructed IGN. “We needed to faucet into nearly three generations. We needed to see the primary immigrant household. Not the Hallmark cookie-cutter Latinos. One thing that looks like, ‘Yeah. That is my uncle. I can completely relate to these [characters].’”
Starring alongside Maridueña are Adriana Barraza (Rambo: Final Blood, Thor), Damían Alcázar (Narcos), Elpidia Carrillo (Mayans M.C.), Bruna Marquezine (Maldivas, God Save the King), and Raoul Max Trujillo (Mayans M.C.), with Susan Sarandon (Monarch, Lifeless Man Strolling), and George Lopez (Rio and Smurf franchises). The movie additionally stars Belissa Escobedo (American Horror Tales, Hocus Pocus 2) and Harvey Guillén (What We Do within the Shadows).
Soto (Appeal Metropolis Kings, Nuevo Rico) directs from a screenplay by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (Miss Bala), primarily based on characters from DC. John Rickard and Zev Foreman produce, with Walter Hamada, Galen Vaisman and Garrett Grant serving as govt producers. Kelvin McIlwain (The Suicide Squad, Aquaman) serves because the manufacturing VFX supervisor; visible results are being produced by Digital Area, RISE, and Rodeo FX.
Blue Beetle is slated to buzz into theaters August 18, 2023.
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