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DC working on a live-action Blue Beetle series
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Amid all the talk about DC’s treatment of non-white characters, it sounds like they’re banking on a certain Latino teen superhero in a big way. Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns tweeted yesterday that the company is working on a live-action Blue Beetle series.
BLUE BEETLE NEWS from DCE!! We have a live-action test of Jaime Reyes’ scarab activating his suit. It. Is. Awesome. Blue Beetle’s going to appear in most of the Brave and the Bold’s this year and we’re hoping to develop a live-action show. Fingers crossed! If I can break it out of the vault, I’ll bring it to SDCC. LIVE ACTION BLUE BEETLE!!
All caps and double explanation points indeed.
For what it’s worth, I’ve thought for a while that the Jaime Reyes incarnation of the Blue Beetle was the legacy character with the most staying power for one reason: Instead of just being a new guy with the same basic look and power set, he’s as different from his predecessor Ted Kord as the now-legendary Silver Age Flash and Green Lantern were from their Golden Age antecedents. It’s nice to see that he’s got some legs, no?
6 Comments
AirDave
June 14, 2010 at 8:53 am
This could be kinda cool…
Squashua
June 14, 2010 at 9:06 am
“he’s as different from his predecessor Ted Kord as ” Ted Kord was from his predecessor Dan Garret, the original Blue Beetle.
Gnubeutel
June 14, 2010 at 10:17 am
Ok, so someone explain to me again, why his book was cancelled?
Ben Morse
June 14, 2010 at 10:38 am
With the scarab, he’s got more legs than most, STC!
For serious though, very psyched about this, love Jaime Reyes. Hopefully John Rogers and/or Keith Giffen plays some role in the production.
Sean T. Collins
June 14, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Don’t think that pun didn’t occur to me, Ben.
Squashua, that’s another case in point, but I thought Hal Jordan and Barry Allen had more, er, legs at this moment. Ted never really took off the way they certainly have.
Kat Kan
June 14, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Jaime Reyes has been my favorite superhero character of recent years, and I was totally bummed by the cancellation of his series. I’ll be watching for any more news of a live-action series. If it happens, it will be so cool …