

And stepping into the Beetle supersuit was like "a young nerd's fantasy," Maridueña said. "We wanted them to feel like not only are they there, but they help him to get to the place of being the next superhero."īatman has Gotham City and Superman has Metropolis, so Solo designed Palerma City for Blue Beetle, a neon-lit place that's Miami in the 1980s and a melting pot of Latino communities. "We talked about good luck hiding something from your Latina mother," Soto said. Unlike other do-gooders, though, Jaime doesn't have a secret identity and his relatives are on the ride with him. Xolo Maridueña stars as Jaime Reyes, a Mexican American youngster who becomes one with an alien scarab that gives him an armored suit and superpowers, and Soto wanted an origin story that was "as authentic as possible and deals with this character as he has to navigate this refusal to the call." Xolo Maridueña stars as a recent college grad who becomes the host of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology that gives him an armored suit and unpredictable powers in "Blue Beetle."ĭirector Angel Manuel Soto and stars Xolo Maridueña and Bruna Marquezine were on hand to introduce an extended "Blue Beetle" trailer and also talk about the film (in theaters Aug. 'Napoleon': CinemaCon unleashes first look at Joaquin Phoenix's 'mercurial' military genius "This DC universe is vast, interconnected and filled with promise and possibility," Safran teased.

3," Safran came to Vegas to promote the three movies – "Flash," "Blue Beetle" and "Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom" – that arrive before a rebooted slate that begins with Gunn's "Superman: Legacy" in 2025. While Gunn is off promoting the upcoming release of his closing Marvel movie "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

"The Flash" resets the characters' landscape but also the moviegoing one, too, said Peter Safran, co-head of the new DC Studios alongside James Gunn. So to help, he teams with another version of himself, a new Supergirl (Sasha Calle) and a Batman who needs to be coaxed out of retirement. In the movie, the Flash (Ezra Miller) uses his super-speed to go back in time to save his parents, but ends up messing up the world. A debuting Supergirl (Sasha Calle, center) teams with multiple versions of the title speedster (Ezra Miller) in the DC superhero movie "The Flash."
