The latest DC project, starring Xolo Maridueña, arrives in theaters Aug. 18.
I’m trying to reserve judgement until I see it, but the trailer did not do a great job of getting me excited to see this. It looked like it would be a made for tv movie that they’d stick on the Disney channel or something.
I feel like the white guy with a checkmark lecturing an unimpressed Latino about how the movie is great because of the representation even though the plot is completely generic sums up this article real well.
Will be interesting to see the reactions when it drops for real.
I’m an old time Ted Kord fan, so I’ll be there, but I bet most of the movie going public will either ignore it or think it’s a Spider-Man / Iron Man knock off.
I don’t even think Ted is in it minus the name on the building from the trailer. I would kill for a blue and gold movie. im a huge Ted Kord fan as well from back in the JLI days.
They do have the suit, and the bug, so I’m in.
And, yeah, the JLI was awesome, but I’m a little older than that… :)
Hopefully word of mouth can drive interest if it really is good, because the marketing for it so far has felt very much like another generic DCU movie and Blue Beetle obviously doesn’t have the name recognition that the other franchises do.