Director Ángel Manuel Soto explains how he took hero Jaime Reyes from page to screen.
of the Guardians of the Galaxy), writer John Rogers and artist Cully Hamner. Hamner’s Blue Beetle design was inspired by studying the look of beetles and adding a luchador feel with the suit’s mask as a nod to the character’s Mexican heritage.
DC Comics president, publisher and chief creative officer Jim Lee said the reinvention of Blue Beetle has worked on multiple levels for DC in comics and other platforms. For too long, “we have had other people tell our stories,” Soto said. “One of my first verbal negotiations with the studio was...if [Warner Bros.] is going to dictate how big the explosions are going to be, I’ll allow it, but you cannot tell me how free I’m going to be with expressing ourselves in our own effective way. And they allowed us to do that. They allowed us to explore our Latinidad in a way that isn’t forced, that isn’t what society expects.
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