Director Ángel Manuel Soto fought to bring 'Blue Beetle' to theaters instead of being a streaming-exclusive title.
The Big Picture Blue Beetle is coming to theaters everywhere – but that wasn’t always the plan. Originally, the upcoming superhero movie was slated to bulk up and attract subscribers to HBO Max, which means the blockbuster would be a streaming-exclusive title. Director Ángel Manuel Soto wasn’t too fond of this idea, and during an interview with Collider, he explained what measures he took to make Warner Bros. Discovery realize the movie would be worthy of the big screen.
Soto was fully aware that having a movie debut only on a streaming platform severely impacts its visibility. He explained, "It can't be that the first time that we have a Latino superhero front and center—not just a Latino playing a hero, but where he is a Latino, his family is Latino, and they're gonna actually be heroes of their own stories for the first time. It cannot just live on streaming. He has to go to the theaters.
“[W]e worked very, very hard to do this world-building where the action sequences, the suit, the passion of the family, and the cultural aspects are presented in a way worthy of watching it, not only in the theater but even on IMAX, and being able to see our communities that way. I think that we did an amazing job in bringing it to life on the concept development of it all that at the end Warner Brothers decided that this movie has to go to the theaters.
Blue Beetle Is Set to Be One of the Greats One element that probably helped Warner Bros. Discovery reconsider is the fact that Blue Beetle features the first Latino superhero protagonist in a movie from a major studio. It’s a huge deal and definitely something that is worth witnessing on the big screen — which clearly played into Soto's goal to get the film a theatrical release. At the same time, Soto’s decision to go big was a wise one, because Warner Bros.
Blue Beetle is written by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer . The cast features Xolo Maridueña , Susan Sarandon , Harvey Guillén , Adriana Barraza , George Lopez , Bruna Marquezine , Raoul Max Trujillo , Elpidia Carrillo , Gabriella Ortiz and Damián Alcázar .
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