{"id":802583,"date":"2026-07-15T02:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802583\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T02:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:14:14","slug":"xolo-mariduenas-blue-beetle-to-return-in-man-of-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802583\/","title":{"rendered":"Xolo Maridue\u00f1a’s Blue Beetle To Return In Man Of Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of the many casualties sustained in the fall of the DCEU<\/a>, Angel Manuel Soto’s Blue Beetle<\/a> \u2014 which introduced Xolo Maridue\u00f1a as DC Comics’ Mexican-American, alien scarab powered superhero \u2014 was surely one of the roughest. Maridue\u00f1a was a breath of fresh air as Jaime Reyes, the movie’s Hispanic-American cultural specificity lent the whole movie an air of genuine originality, and Blue Beetle easily had the coolest supersuit of the DCEU era. Happily then, we mourn Blue Beetle’s loss no more, as Variety<\/a> is reporting that Xolo Maridue\u00f1a is coming back back back in James Gunn’s upcoming Superman<\/a> sequel Man Of Tomorrow<\/a>. Yes, really!<\/p>\n

Now, technically speaking, Gunn did confirm that Blue Beetle would factor into the DCU when Soto’s movie first came out. Speaking on Inside Of You With Michael Rosenbaum<\/a> at the time, Gunn clarified, “The first DCU character, for sure, is\u00a0Blue Beetle, and the first full DCU movie is Superman.” And star Xolo Maridue\u00f1a, who has always been very vocal about his pride in having portrayed DC’s first Latino superhero lead, has done his part in keeping the Blue Beetle flag flying during the hero’s between-two-cinematic-universe-stools era. But with the DCU slate<\/a> having been jigged and rejigged multiple times over the last three years, the reappearance of Jaime Reyes has never truly felt like an iron-clad done deal… until now, that is.<\/p>\n

With production already underway on Man Of Tomorrow<\/a>, which is set to see David Corenswet’s Man of Steel team up with arch nemesis Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) to take on Lars Eidinger’s big-bad Brainiac, the wheels are already very much in motion on the movie that will bring back Blue Beetle. All that remains to be seen now is just how exactly writer-director Gunn pulls off his DCEU-to-DCU transition, what the DC Studios head honcho has in mind for Jaime Reyes, and whether the next Blue Beetle suit can live up to the sheer awesomeness of the last. We’ll find out all this and more though when Man Of Tomorrow flies into cinemas on 9 July, 2027. Until then, Blue Beetle is back, baby! \u00a1Qu\u00e9 padre!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of the many casualties sustained in the fall of the DCEU, Angel Manuel Soto’s Blue Beetle \u2014 which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-802583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}