Blue Beetle 2: Will James Gunn Allow Cobra Kai Star Xolo Maridueña a Sequel as Initial Reviews Spark Optimism After ‘The Flash’ Failure
James Gunn is well-known in the superhero movie industry. He moved from Marvel to DC in 2022 as co-CEO with Peter Safran to create a fresh, varied DC Universe. Gunn is on the verge of changing the face of DCU and making it capable of competing with MCU. Although the poor performance of The Flash has led to the failure of DC, there is still a ray of hope.
The latest film Blue Beetle from the DC universe has created a buzz among fans. Starring Xolo Maridueña as Jaime Reyes, the film is one of the highly anticipated films from DCU. The movie will hit the theatres on August 18, 2023. The initial reviews of the film have given James Gunn’s revived DC Universe faith that it will succeed and have even sparked questions related to the sequel.
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Will Blue Beetle have a sequel?
Blue Beetle, the upcoming film in the DC Cinematic Universe, is creating a tidal wave of excitement among fans. All are eagerly waiting for the emergence of Jaime Reyes as the formidable Blue Beetle, played by Xolo Maridueña. Blue Beetle marks the first superhero of the new DC Universe as envisioned by DC Studio’s founders James Gunn and Peter Safran.
With the failure of The Flash, Gunn, and DC have found a ray of hope in Blue Beetle. After the early screening of the film, critics took to Twitter to applaud the film for its original strategy. The film has garnered positive reviews from critics giving hope to DC to recover from previous flops like Shazam! Fury of the Gods and The Flash.
However, with the positive reviews, the question of a sequel has popped up. The film, directed by Angel Manuel Soto, centers around Jaime Reyes, who comes into contact with an extraterrestrial scarab and later embraces his new identity as Blue Beetle.
Soto, in an interview, claimed there is hope for a full Blue Beetle trilogy following this initial origin movie. The director said,
“The way the machine works, the [first] movie needs to make money for them to put more money in, but for us, we’ve always seen it that way…We love the story so much. We believe in the product so much. We believe in an actor so much. We couldn’t help but think about where his journey was going to go while we were creating this film.”
Blue Beetle 2 depends on the box office success of the first film, as the director does have plans for two more sequels to round out Jaime Reyes’ story as a full-on trilogy.
Everything to know about Blue Beetle
The upcoming DCU film Blue Beetle stars Cobra Kai‘s Xolo Maridueña as superhero Jaime Reyes. He is the first Latino lead in a DC project, bringing an additional layer to the comic book character in the live-action.
The highly anticipated superhero film follows Reyes as he returns to his hometown after graduation only to run into a life-changing mystery: an alien scarab that chooses him to be its new vessel and endows him with a variety of incredible skills.
The film stars Xolo Maridueña in the lead with Bruna Marquezine, Susan Sarandon, Becky G, Raoul Max Trujillo, Damian Alcazar, and Elpidia Carrillo.
Blue Beetle will land in theaters on August 18, 2023.
Source: Yahoo Entertainment
