Concept Art For DC's BLUE BEETLE Movie Shows Off Costume Design

This weekend during the DC FanDome virtual event, Blue Beetle director Angel Manuel Soto (Charm City Kings), writer Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (Miss Bala), and star Xolo Maridueña (Cobra Kai) show up to hype up the movie. The film is still in pre-production so they didn’t have any footage to show, but they did show off a piece of concept art that features the Blue Beetle costume.

The film will center around Mexican-American teenager Jaime Reyes, who is the third character to assume the mantle of the Blue Beetle after Dan Garret and Ted Kord.

In the story, “Jaime Reyes discovered the Blue Beetle scarab on the way home from school with two of his best friends Paco and Brenda, half-buried in a disused lot. Reyes took the scarab home, curious as to what it might be. That night, the scarab came alive, and grafted itself to the base of Jaime’s spine, and provided him with a suit of extraterrestrial armor that can be modified to enhance his speed and strength, as well as to create weapons, wings, and shields.”

When talking about the story being told, Soto said, “One thing that Gareth did really well is capture the Latino family at its core. This film kind of opens this door for a new generation of what Blue Beetle can become at the hands of Jaime.”

Blue Beetle is expected to start its production early next year. It will be executive produced by Zev Foreman of Warner Bros. with HBO Max’s John Rickard set as a producer.