Blue Beetle (2023)
Blue Beetle is a superhero-action film that follows college graduate Jaime Reyes as he inherits the powers of a mysterious alien relic known as the Scarab, bestowing him with a powerful exosuit that gives him unearthly capabilities. Now an inheritor of a power he isn't sure he deserves, Jaime will become a hero to protect the ones he loves.
Blue Beetle
- Director
- Angel Manuel Soto
- Release Date
- August 18, 2023
- Studio(s)
- DC Studios , Safran Company
- Distributor(s)
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Cast
- Xolo Mariduena , Susan Sarandon , Raoul Max Trujillo , Harvey Guillen , George Lopez , Elpidia Carrillo , Bruna Marquezine
- Writers
- Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer
- Franchise(s)
- DC Extended Universe
- Main Genre
- Action
- Story By
- Cully Hamner, John Rogers, Keith Giffen
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