Blue Beetle

Synopsis: In Blue Beetle, a Mexican-American boy named Jaime Reyes discovers a strange robotic beetle that fuses with his spine and grants him the ability to call out a potent suit of armor. Although at first glance this would seem like a good thing, Jaime rapidly learns that the beetle has its own mind and occasionally has the power to dominate him instead of the other way around.

Release Date: August 18, 2023
Director: Angel Manuel Soto
Cast: Xolo Maridueña, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Guillén, Raoul Max Trujillo, Elpidia Carrillo, George Lopez, Damián Alcázar, Bruna Marquezine, Adriana Barraza, and Belissa Escobedo

2023 will mark the first live-action appearance of the popular DC Comics character as it sees the release of Blue Beetle. The movie stars Xolo Maridueña of Cobra Kai, and tells the origin story of Jaime Reyes, a Latino youngster who forms a link with a symbiotic scarab that endows him with superpowers and transforms him into Blue Beetle.