Blue Beetle

The “Blue Beetle” trailer released today, providing a glimpse into the world of the bug-legged superhero. Set to hit theaters on August 18.

"It's some kid of world destroying weapon - it's design to protect its host. Sometimes it does want you want, and sometimes it doesn't.

[our feed](https://www.firstshowing.net/feed/)or [daily newsletter](https://follow.it/firstshowing-net?action=followPub): Warner Bros will release the Blue Beetle movie in theaters nationwide starting [August 18th, 2023](https://www.firstshowing.net/schedule2023/#aug) this summer. [Angel Manuel Soto](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3924049/), director of the films Frailty, The Farm, and Charm City Kings previously, plus many other shorts and a few documentaries - including [Menudo: Forever Young](https://www.firstshowing.net/2022/an-untold-boy-band-story-in-menudo-forever-young-doc-series-trailer/). As he searches to find his true purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab. The DC movie stars Xolo Maridueña as Jaime Reyes, a teenager who gains superpowers when an alien Blue Beetle scarab grafts onto him, forming a powerful exoskeleton around his body. This was originally a creation for the DCEU, but DC's new studio leader James Gunn has said the film would be "disconnected" from previous DCEU entries and could be made a part of the new franchise.

The first Blue Beetle trailer has arrived giving us our first official look at the highly-anticipated DC film releasing this August.

He has also had one other brush with a live-action incarnation appearing in an episode of the tenth season of Smallville. The second version was a Charlton Comics character that was eventually purchased by DC Comics and served as the inspiration for the Nite Owl character in the Watchmen series. [Cobra Kai](https://thenerdy.com/tag/cobra-kai/)) as the Beetle himself, Jaime Reyes.

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The Blue Beetle trailer looks fun. The trailer for the Blue Beetle movie has apparently dropped sooner than DC had anticipated. She seems to believe the Scarab belongs to her (perhaps a nod to Victoria’s comics relationship to Ted Kord, a previous Blue Beetle) and will do anything to get it back.

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Is Blue Beetle part of the old DCEU, the new DCU, or neither? The Ted Kord Blue Beetle joins the Justice League, paving the way for his iconic partnership with Booster Gold and playing a key role in the DCU up until his death in 2005’s Countdown to Infinite Crisis. Fury of the Gods](/articles/shazam-fury-of-the-gods-director-dcu-overhaul), there's nothing stopping Gunn from working Blue Beetle into his new DCU if that's what Gunn wants. But only now is Blue Beetle appearing in a live-action film. The latter revamped the Blue Beetle mythos by more closely tying Jaime to his predecessor, Ted Kord, and revealing the scarab to be magical in origin rather than extraterrestrial. It’s also worth pointing out that Blue Beetle is the main inspiration for Watchmen’s Nite Owl. In emergencies, Jaime can even activate “infiltrator mode,” which allows the scarab to take control of the suit and dispatch enemies with brutal efficiency. Again, Jaime’s own inexperience is the greatest hindrance to his powers, and early on he struggles to bond with the scarab and realize his true potential. Though DC eventually canceled the Blue Beetle series in 2009, Jaime continued to play a role in books like Teen Titans and Justice League: Generation Lost. While the Blue Beetle character dates all the way back to 1939, Jaime Reyes himself didn’t come along until 2006. Jaime quickly embraces his new role as a teen superhero, with his story continuing in the pages of the monthly Blue Beetle comic. Whether alone or fighting alongside groups like the Teen Titans, Blue Beetle is a powerful force for good, even if his scarab initially has darker motives.

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Jaime Reyes is here to bring a new hero to the DC Universe, but his new movie trailer also has some interesting connections to Blue Beetle's comics past.

The trailer ends with a brief look at what appears to be the inside of Jaime’s eventual base of operations—seemingly taken over from somewhere inside Kord Industries, given that we see the costumes of the two prior Blue Beetles in the background for a moment. Early on in Jamie’s story, and seemingly in the movie as well, the Scarab often manifests the suit of its own volition, and it takes Jaime a while to actually control his newfound abilities. Given the shadow Kord Industries casts over this whole trailer, it’s no surprise that we’re seeing a lot of Ted’s time as the Blue Beetle even if Ted himself is not the star of the show in this movie. Inside the Big Belly Burger box is in fact not a Big Belly Burger—but the alien scarab that bonds with Jaime’s spine, transforming him into the Blue Beetle. Jaime is given a mysterious package to safeguard with his life in an innocuous hamburger box—which in and of itself is a DC Comics reference. While in most of its history Ted has directly led Kord Industries himself, most recently in the comics, and in the Blue Beetle movie, it’s managed by his sister, Victoria.

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Is Blue Beetle part of the old DCEU, the new DCU, or neither? The Ted Kord Blue Beetle joins the Justice League, paving the way for his iconic partnership with Booster Gold and playing a key role in the DCU up until his death in 2005’s Countdown to Infinite Crisis. Fury of the Gods](/shazam-fury-of-the-gods/196042/news/shazam-fury-of-the-gods-director-says-theres-a-possibility-for-more-shazam-films-despite-dcu-overhau), there's nothing stopping Gunn from working Blue Beetle into his new DCU if that's what Gunn wants. But only now is Blue Beetle appearing in a live-action film. The latter revamped the Blue Beetle mythos by more closely tying Jaime to his predecessor, Ted Kord, and revealing the scarab to be magical in origin rather than extraterrestrial. It’s also worth pointing out that Blue Beetle is the main inspiration for Watchmen’s Nite Owl. In emergencies, Jaime can even activate “infiltrator mode,” which allows the scarab to take control of the suit and dispatch enemies with brutal efficiency. Though DC eventually canceled the Blue Beetle series in 2009, Jaime continued to play a role in books like Teen Titans and Justice League: Generation Lost. Again, Jaime’s own inexperience is the greatest hindrance to his powers, and early on he struggles to bond with the scarab and realize his true potential. While the Blue Beetle character dates all the way back to 1939, Jaime Reyes himself didn’t come along until 2006. Whether alone or fighting alongside groups like the Teen Titans, Blue Beetle is a powerful force for good, even if his scarab initially has darker motives. Jaime quickly embraces his new role as a teen superhero, with his story continuing in the pages of the monthly Blue Beetle comic.

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Reyes' version of the Blue Beetle is more closely tied to the supernatural and mystical elements of the DC Universe, and he has been featured prominently in recent storylines such as Infinite Frontier and Future State. In recent years, DC Comics has introduced a new version of Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes, which is also the subject of the aforementioned movie. Blue Beetle has been a member of several superhero teams over the years, including the Justice League and the Teen Titans. The original Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett, was created by Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski and first appeared in Mystery Men Comics #1 in 1939. Also, the movie is the first live-action superhero film featuring a Latino in the lead. Starring Xolo Maridueña in the lead role, the Angel Manuel Soto directorial introduces the first Latino superhero in DC's film history.

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The director's creative team behind the scenes includes director of photography Pawel Pogorzelski ("Midsommar," "Hereditary"), production designer John Billington ("Bad Boys for Life"), editor Craig Alpert ("Deadpool 2," "The Lost City"), Oscar-nominated costume designer Mayes C. ) as Carapax, with Oscar winner Susan Sarandon ("Monarch," "Dead Man Walking") as Victoria Kord, and George Lopez (the "Rio and "Smurf" franchises) as Jaime's Uncle Rudy. The film also stars Belissa Escobedo ("American Horror Stories," "Hocus Pocus 2") as Jaime's sister, Milagro, and Harvey Guillén ("What We Do in the Shadows") as Dr. "The studio kind of allowed me to run free in my creativity, and unbeknownst to them and to me, I guess what they were able to see as the promise of how we picture Palmera City, how we really wanted the suit to be, and how in the bigger realm of this cultural side is the impact that this can have culturally," Soto continued. "But also in the superhero genre as just so to try something different, with the hopes that people will see it as this, for the hope that people can see it as what it is, it's very, a lot of love, a lot of heart. And it doesn't really have to be with saving the planet from this fake invasion, but it's actually something that can relate to, which, for some of us, is bigger than life.

The debut of young Jaime Reyes represents a sea change in this troublesome franchise. Will the long-awaited film be a new beginning?