‘Blue Beetle’ Director Ángel Manuel Soto Says The DC Film Is A ‘Love Letter To Our Ancestors’
etcanada.comDirector Ángel Manuel Soto didn’t think too much about the “Latino side of things” when visually crafting DC’s “Blue Beetle” alongside Mexican screenwriter Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer.
The film — starring “Cobra Kai’s” Xolo Maridueña as Jaime Reyes, aka Blue Beetle and DC’s first Latino superhero — oozes with Mexican references and elements of other Latin American cultures through almost every scene.
Still, the Puerto Rican director says that all of this came naturally due to his and Dunnet-Alcocer’s backgrounds. “We never were like, ‘Okay, so how are we going to make this Latino?’ We cannot hide who we are.
If we have the opportunity to tell our collective experiences because we are Latino, they’re going to come out Latino.” In “Blue Beetle,” Reyes finds himself in possession of an ancient scarab named Khaji Da made of alien biotechnology that chooses Reyes as its symbiotic host.
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