Blue Beetle is an upcoming American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle. The film is directed by Angel Manuel Soto from a screenplay by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer and produced by DC Studios and the Safran Company. It is intended to be the 14th film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) . The film stars Xolo Maridueña as Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle alongside Adriana Barraza, Damián Alcázar, Raoul Max Trujillo, Susan Sarandon, and George Lopez. The movie is scheduled to be released in the United States on August 18, 2023, by Warner Bros. Pictures.
The movie is about Jaime Reyes, who graduates from college and returns to his hometown Palmera City. He is chosen to become a symbiotic host to the Scarab, an ancient alien biotechnological relic that grants him a powerful exoskeleton. As he searches to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology. The relic chooses Jaime Reyes to be its symbiotic host, bestowing the teenager with a suit of armor thats capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero Blue Beetle.
