Puerto Rican Ángel Manuel Soto will direct Blue Beetle, from DC and Warner Bros., the first superhero film starring a Latin.
“It’s an honor to direct Blue Beetle, the first Latin superhero film for DC … I want to sincerely thank everyone at Warner Bros. and DC for trusting me to bring Jaume Reis to life. I can’t wait to make history together.” , said the Puerto Rican director of Charm City Kings, in statements released by The Wrap, which made the news.
It should be noted that the filmmaker from Santurce, had the support of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith as executive producers of his recent project Charm City Kings.
Soto will enter the Blue Beetle filming set in the fall, with Zev Foreman as executive producer. The proposal is scripted by Mexican Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, who wrote the new version of Universal’s Scarface and Sony’s Miss Bala, the portal said.
The Wrap said the film will focus on Mexican-American teenager Jaume Reis, the third character to take on the mantle of Blue Beetle, a superhero inhabited by two other alter egos.