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Screenshot: Warner Bros. DC and Warner Bros. are bringing Blue Beetle to the screen in the first DC superhero film to star a Latino character. Charm City Kings) is on board to direct Blue Beetle, which is written by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer ( Miss Bala). Though there have been three Blue Beetles over the years, the film will focus on the most recent incarnation of the character, Jaime Reyes, a Mexican-American teen from El Paso who gets super powerful armor from the Blue Beetle scarab. Blue Beet...

Blue Beetle, the first Latino superhero film for DC,” Soto told The Wrap. “I want to sincerely thank everyone at Warner Bros. and DC for trusting me to bring Jaime Reyes to life. I can’t wait to make history together.” The superhero known as Blue Beetle dates all the way back to the now-defunct Fox Comics in the late 1930s, but the character has done a fair bit of shuffling around to publishers over the decades. By the 1980s Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle, had migrated from Charlton ...

Angel Manuel Soto to Direct Blue Beetle, DC Films First Latino Superhero Movie Adam B. Vary, provided by Feb. 23, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Variety has confirmed, bringing the studio’s first Latinx superhero movie closer to life. Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, who wrote “Miss Bala” and an earlier draft of Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming remake of “Scarface,” is penning the screenplay. Zev Foreman is executive producing. The project aims to start production in the fall. More from Variety Blue Be...

Angel Manuel Soto is set to direct DC and Warner Bros. first Latino superhero movie about Jaime Reyes, aka the “Blue Beetle.”

Warner Bros. is moving ahead with a Blue Beetle solo movie that will feature a Latino superhero in the lead role.