Puerto Rican Angel Soto will direct the new film “Transformers”

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the Puerto Rican Angel Manuel Soto, Who in February announced that he will direct “Blue Beetle”, the first Warner Bros. and DC Comics film starring a Latin superhero, will also be the director of the upcoming film “Transforms.”

According to several pages specializing in cinema published on the web this Saturday, the project is in its early stages, and marc Ramírez, Co-creator of the TV series “The Defenders”, will be the “showrunner” (head of a series) of the new Paramount film.

Ramirez will also create something independent that will not necessarily connect with “Transformers” movies directed by Michael Bay.

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Bay directed “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” (2011), “Transformers: Age of Extinction” (2014) and “Transformers: The Last Knight” (2017), while “Transformers: Bumblebee” (2018), direct Travis Knight.

The announcement of the new “Transformers” movie comes a year after Paramount announced that it was developing two films related to the animated television series.

The first would be written by James Vanderbilt and the other for Joby Harold.

Soto has taken off his career following the “Charm City Kings” project, an adaptation of the documentary “12 O’Clock Boys,” which aired on the HBO Max platform and won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 2020.

Following this project, at the end of last February it was announced that Soto would direct “Blue Beetle”.

This feature film will focus on the Spanish Jaume Reis, one of the 3 identities he has had in the comics Blue Beetle, a superhero with extraordinary powers derived from a beetle.

This new film will be the first with a Hispanic protagonist of those who make up the film universe that Warner Bros. is articulating on the stories of DC Comics.

However, “Suicide Squad” (2016) did have a secondary character of Latin origin called The Devil and played the actor Jay Hernandez.

The executive producer of “Blue Bettler,” which will hit theaters this fall, is Zev Foreman by Warner Bros.

Blue Beetle was created by Charles Wojtkowski for Fox Comics in 1939 as the “alter ego” of Dan Garrett, a cop who uses experimental vitamins to develop superpowers.

Some of Soto’s first films were “El Púgil” and “La granja”, the latter presented at the V Aruba International Film Festival in 2015.

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