We’re simply over every week away from the upcoming DC Studios movie Blue Beetle, which is ready to star Xolo Maridueña (Cobra Kai) as current faculty grad Jaime Reyes, who returns house filled with aspirations for his future, solely to search out that house just isn’t fairly as he left it. As he searches to search out his function on this planet, destiny intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an historical relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab. When the Scarab abruptly chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he’s bestowed with an unbelievable swimsuit of armor able to extraordinary and unpredictable powers, endlessly altering his future as he turns into the tremendous hero Blue Beetle.

We have now to attend and see how this movie does within the field workplace earlier than we may be certain a few sequel, however Maridueña has excessive hopes, and says he hopes to play the character for a few years.

The younger actor instructed EW (pre-strike), “I am so excited for everybody to see it,” he says. “I will be proper there on the theater with you!” In spite of everything, Maridueña has good purpose to be hyped. When Blue Beetle hits theaters, it will not simply be his superhero debut; it is his first main movie ever.

Initially, Blue Beetle was set to debut on streaming service HBO Max, earlier than shifting to a theatrical launch. Now, Maridueña says he cannot wait to see the movie’s Palmera Metropolis setting on the largest display potential.

“It was like profitable the lottery twice, fairly frankly,” Maridueña says with fun. “I used to be already astounded. Simply taking part in a superhero is a life-changing expertise and a life-changing alternative, and I used to be already so grateful and so appreciative. However to have DC and the larger Warner Bros. household imagine that this story is a worldwide story that deserves to be proven to all people, it was actually welcoming and actually reassuring.”

When speaking about how a lot he loves his co-stars within the movie, he gushed, “I need to do 12 extra years of Blue Beetle.” He went on, “However my coronary heart is already so fulfilled with this film. If we do 20 of those films and 40 cameos or if it is simply this one, what’s most fun to me is the chance for individuals to see it and have little children in every single place saying, ‘Oh my gosh, this man seems like me. I is usually a hero, too.’”

I can’t wait to see this film! I’ve excessive hopes for a way enjoyable it’s going to be, and hopefully it does properly sufficient to maneuver ahead within the DCU. Blue Beetle opens in theaters on August 18th.