'Blue Beetle' Trailer: Xolo Maridueña Debuts as DC's Newest Hero
etonline.comdebuted on Monday, giving fans the first look at Xolo Maridueña as the titular superhero, aka Jaime Reyes. When he comes into possession of an alien Blue Beetle scarab, which grafts onto him to form a powerful exoskeleton super suit, Jaime becomes the newest hero on the DC Comics cinematic roster.The trailer gives fans a look at Jaime getting used to his Blue Beetle powers, learning to fly, fight and conjure up any weapon he wants — just by thinking about it.Of course, with great power can come a price, as Victoria Kord (Susan Sarandon) warns in the trailer.«The scarab may have chosen you,» she declares of the Beetle, «but it belongs to me.»The film also stars Harvey Guillén, George Lopez, Bruna Marquezine, Belissa Escobedo, Adriana Barraza, Elpidia Carrillo, Damián Alcázar and Raoul Trujillo.Watch the full trailer and read the full plot synopsis below!In January, newly appointed co-chairman and CEO of DC Studios James Gunn explained how fits into the larger vision he and Peter Safran have for the future of the DC cinematic universe.“I think that we’ve gotten lucky with the next four movies because we have , which leads into , which resets everything, which then goes into which is totally disconnected (from everything that came before) and can be a part of the DCU, which goes into , which leads into our first big project," he explained. “But the one thing that we can promise is that everything from our first project forward will be canon and will be connected.
We’re using some actors from the past, we’re not using other actors from the past, but everything from that moment forward will be connected and consistent." flies into theaters Aug.
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