Blue Beetle | August 18, 2023 | WB/DC | Angel Manuel Soto to direct. Going theatrical. | GEORGE LOPEZ IS HERE

[cax16]

“Charm City Kings” director Angel Manuel Soto is set to direct “Blue Beetle,” DC Films and Warner Bros.’ first superhero movie starring a Latino character, individuals with knowledge of the project exclusively tells TheWrap.

The screenplay is from Mexican-born writer Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, who wrote Universal’s “Scarface” remake and Sony’s “Miss Bala.”

Edited February 23, 2021 by cax16

[grim22]

23 minutes ago, cax16 said:

“Charm City Kings” director Angel Manuel Soto is set to direct “Blue Beetle,” DC Films and Warner Bros.’ first superhero movie starring a Latino character, individuals with knowledge of the project exclusively tells TheWrap.

The screenplay is from Mexican-born writer Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, who wrote Universal’s “Scarface” remake and Sony’s “Miss Bala.”

Been 10 years since the test footage for a TV show leaked online

 

 

[belblazer]

A latin Supergirl and now Blue Beetle. We really deserve it.

🥰

[SLAM!]

Blue Beetle's one of my favorite DC heroes, so I'm stoked for this. Great choices of director and writer.

[MrGamer]

Xolo Mariduena from Cobra Kai would be a pretty good pick for Jamie.

Edited February 23, 2021 by MrGamer

[Eric from Progressive]

 

[cax16]

21 minutes ago, MrGamer said:

Xolo Mariduena from Cobra Kai would be a pretty good pick for Jamie.

Apparently he and the director just started following each other on Instagram. 

[DlAMONDZ]

Is this another "risky" project destine for MAX ala Static and Batgirl?

[grim22]

21 minutes ago, DlAMONDZ said:

Is this another "risky" project destine for MAX ala Static and Batgirl?

It was never mentioned by Hamada that Static and Batgirl were on Max. It was mentioned by the NYTimes guy thinking those might be risky. That quote by the columnist has been taken to be from Hamada for some reason.

[Darth Lehnsherr]

Was introduced to Blue Beetle in Batman: The Brave and the Bold and was one of my favourite characters. Totally forgot he was in one episode of Smallville too.

[DlAMONDZ]

1 hour ago, grim22 said:

It was never mentioned by Hamada that Static and Batgirl were on Max. It was mentioned by the NYTimes guy thinking those might be risky. That quote by the columnist has been taken to be from Hamada for some reason.

He still had to run it by Hamada to run with the story

[grim22]

1 hour ago, DlAMONDZ said:

He still had to run it by Hamada to run with the story

No he didn't. The quotes have to be run by Hamada but not the entire story. And that wasn't a quote by Hamada. You are looking for things to be outraged by at this point.

 

Being angry at DC is easy, but we don't need to invent things for that.

[belblazer]

 

 

[cax16]

 

[Macleod]

On 2/23/2021 at 3:38 PM, grim22 said:

It was never mentioned by Hamada that Static and Batgirl were on Max. It was mentioned by the NYTimes guy thinking those might be risky. That quote by the columnist has been taken to be from Hamada for some reason.

Static Shock was mentioned as being aligned with HBO/HBOMax by one of the comic writers who's involved with the Milestone resurgence in a virtual panel last summer, I think... DC Fandome?  

Edited March 2, 2021 by Macleod

[grim22]

1 hour ago, Macleod said:

Static Shock was mentioned as being aligned with HBO/HBOMax by one of the comic writers who's involved with the Milestone resurgence in a virtual panel last summer, I think... DC Fandome?  

I watched DC Fandome, and nowhere in that entire panel was it mentioned as being aligned to HBO or HBOMax.  Milestone will be producing content for HBO Max as well which was mentioned on the panel. The Static Shock movie was separate to that specific announcement.

 

Here's the announcement when MBJ came on board as producer, no mention of HBO or Max in the entire thing, they are creating digital comics and animated shows which might go onto HBO Max:  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/michael-b-jordan-outlier-society-to-produce-dc-movie-static-shock-exclusive 

 

The quotes from Fandome

 

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“One of the things we’re really excited about, we really want to live up to the name of the company, Milestone Media,” said Hudlin. “When we spoke to Jim [Lee] about reviving the Milestone line, we said ‘Look, we all know this has been a hit comic book and hit animated series. It’s time to expand back into all those areas and then some.’ So we’re in serious conversations about, as we’re launching the comic book series, developing the ‘Static Shock’ movie. That will be a theatrical feature film.”

 

 

Hudlin also added that other characters in the Milestone Media comic family may get projects in different forms.

“What we’re talking about is unbelievable,” Hudlin said. “We’re also talking to all the other divisions of Warner, for example, the animation department. They make those amazing animated feature films for home entertainment. And we’re talking about doing one of those feature films involving the Milestone characters. We’re also looking at new media, like podcasts, and doing a serious of stories that will be available on podcasts. We will deliver Milestone Media wherever you are, on whatever platform you want.”

 

[El Gato]

Yes! Blue Beetle is one of my favorite characters and I absolutely love Jaime Reyes!! This movie has a lot of potential to be huge!! 

[belblazer]

 

 

[cax16]

54 minutes ago, belblazer said:

 

 

The source is from dceuleaks Reddit so we’ll see what comes from this lol 

[cax16]

“wbcomics”? Probably doesn’t mean anything but just in case he does get cast in the future lol

Edited June 6, 2021 by cax16