Xolo Maridueña rises as the BLUE BEETLE in all-new trailer

Between Black Adam and the latest Shazam sequel, it’s fairly protected to say that the DC Comics Extended Universe movies have had a reasonably tough go these days. With any luck, the upcoming The Flash movie will rejuvenate followers’ pleasure for DC Comics’ pantheon of superheroes. The resolution to push The Marvels to a fall launch can solely imply excellent news for the upcoming Blue Beetle movie arriving in theaters this summer time. Directed by Angel Manuel Soto from a script by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, the movie stars Cobra Kai actor Xolo Maridueña as the titular hero. Today Warner Bros. launched the first Blue Beetle trailer.

Introduced in 2005, the present Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes, is a Hispanic teenager residing in El Paso, TX who discovers an alien scarab that, as soon as bonded with him, offers him a superpowered go well with of armor. The character was developed by Keith Giffen, John Rogers, and Cully Hamner, first showing throughout the Infinite Crisis occasion collection.

The Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle has appeared in stay motion on-screen earlier than, featured in an episode from the remaining season of Smallville in which he was performed by actor Jaren Brandt Bartlett. The character additionally obtained a whole lot of visibility with youthful audiences as a recurring guest-star on the Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon, as effectively as as a group member on the Young Justice animated collection. Test footage for a possible live-action TV collection for the character, a spin-off from his Smallville look, was revealed by DC again in 2010, although nothing got here of the Alex Winter-directed footage.

Official description:

Recent faculty grad Jaime Reyes returns dwelling stuffed with aspirations for his future, solely to search out that dwelling just isn’t fairly as he left it. As he searches to search out his objective in the world, destiny intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an historic relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab. When the Scarab instantly chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he’s bestowed with an unimaginable go well with of armor able to extraordinary and unpredictable powers, eternally altering his future as he turns into the Super Hero BLUE BEETLE.

In addition to Maridueña , different actors in the movie embrace Bruna Marquezine, Belissa Escobedo, Adriana Barraza and George Lopez. Whether or not we’ll see OG Blue Beetle Ted Kord seem in some type stays to be seen. However, we all know Kord will certainly have some form of presence via the character Victoria Kord performed by Susan Sarandon.

Eagle eyed viewers although is not going to solely spy Ted Kord’s iconic Bug ship but additionally his authentic costume as effectively as the one by Dan Garret, the Golden Age Blue Beetle.