‘Blue Beetle’ Trailer: DC’s Unlikely Superhero Hits Theaters This August
theplaylist.netMarking the DC superhero’s first time on the big screen, Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Blue Beetle” hits theaters later this summer.
The film, directed by Angel Manuel Soto (known for “Charm City Kings” and “The Farm”), stars Xolo Maridueña (“Cobra Kai”) in the title role as well as his alter ego, Jaime Reyes.
READ MORE: ‘Blue Beetle’: ‘What We Do In The Shadow’s Scene-Stealer Harvey Guillén Joining The Cast Of Upcoming DC Superhero Film And while there are lots of reasons to celebrate DC’s first notable Latinx hero on screen—Latin Americans strangely underrepresented in the superhero verse aside from Marvel’s American Chavez and the “Spider-Verse” universe—the question on most people’s minds is: if the $200-million dollar-costing “The Flash” movie with its bevy of callbacks and cameos couldn’t perform (it’s likely not even going to gross $300 million worldwide), what hope does a “Blue Beetle” film—with an unknown lead and basically unknown character—have?
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