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Ángel Manuel Soto breaks down the making of DC’s latest superhero movie and reveals a lot of surprising facts during our IMAX screening.
The Big Picture [Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Blue Beetle]Before DC’s Blue Beetle hit theaters, Collider offered fans an opportunity to check out the film in IMAX.
ÁNGEL MANUEL SOTO: It's been intense. I don't like to be in front of the cameras. I don't mind having these conversations, I like it, but being in front of the camera for hours and hours and hours and then having to travel? It's cool to go places, it's not cool to travel. It gets very tiresome after a while, and the jet lag and the hour changes. Usually, for me, it's more like emotional weight. Yes, you get physical exhaustion.
The Impact of IMAX We're screening here at IMAX headquarters in IMAX, and I really want to give a huge thank you to IMAX for partnering up. This is your first IMAX film, so was this the theater that you were checking it out in? SOTO: There's something that I learned with DC, and that is that you don't pitch DC, DC pitches you. That was really another thing that I was not expecting because I've been pitching. I did La Granja in Puerto Rico, and I did Charm City Kings afterwards here, but I did pitching for, like, 40/50 projects. Only one came through, which was Charm City Kings. After that, when we were gonna go to theaters after premiering at Sundance, the pandemic hit, so we were all in lockdown.
The Significance of Carapax’s Flashback What is something that you really fought for that you got in the movie that you're really happy worked out? Blue Beetle's DC Easter Eggs Let's talk about the fact that you got to put in, for people who maybe saw it, the establishing shot you got to put in LexCorp—I'm going to something lighter from what we were just talking about—but you get to include the Daily Planet, DC nods; what does that mean to you? Talk about some of the Easter eggs that maybe people should look out for the next time they watch, and were there any Easter eggs you wanted to do that Warner Brothers or DC were like,...
SOTO: It had fluff. It had some fluff. I knew that I still needed to trim some fat off that director's cut, and I did. We did a version where I went in and I did that trimming, and it ended up being like 2:06/2:07. It wasn't that much longer, but they really wanted it to be two hours, so a lot of some of the fighting sequences had to be trimmed down. Pacing-wise, rhythm-wise, it had to be rushed in some of the moments.
As far as the music, we wanted the score to feel like that Tangerine Dreams energy that I miss so much and that I grew up with, and see how that kind of fits into the superhero genre and how those sounds give you those Miami-esque, ‘80s retro synthwave sounds just to shift it a little bit.
SOTO: Originally, nobody was gonna die in the movie. But no, the studio kept pushing and convinced us, eventually, like, “How can we create the lowest of lows with the family member? And how that low is not just another death in the superhero genre, but how that low actually ends up being a power for him.
Blue Beetle Mid-Credits Scene Explained You have a very fun mid-credit scene. Talk a little bit about how that ended up being the mid-credit scene. Was it ever going to be something else? So we wanted to keep it self-contained. We didn't want to immediately have him team up with anything. Those team-ups can happen whenever they want to happen, but in Jaime’s story, this is just literally the beginning. It just connected. Then comes the whole relationship aspect of it, which is like the next version that we wanted to explore.
Ted Kord and the Nintendo Power Glove I could dig in on so many of the shots, but I know I'm gonna run out of time. I'm going to get into probably the most important thing; we've talked about it a little bit, but the audience probably has not heard it, and that is the Nintendo Power Glove. So for people that don't realize, who are young, who do not know what the Nintendo Power glove is…Back in the early days, it was a device that came out with the Nintendo NES a long time ago.
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