Blue Beetle Sequel Possible? Director Reveals Some Conditions

Blue Beetle debuted on cinema screens, eliciting more positive reactions than expected. So what is needed for a continuation of Jaime Reyes' adventures to be greenlit?

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Pamela Jakiel21 August 2023
Source: Blue Beetle, Angel Manuel Soto, DC, 2023.
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Blue Beetle, the first movie from James Gunn's "reformed" DC universe, has appeared in cinema screens around the world. Despite fears that the new movie could be a spectacular failure, the first audience reviews seem to be surprisingly positive. On Rotten Tomatoes as much as 92% of the audience rated the movie positively, and critics also seem to be more gracious than in the case of The Flash. 76% of them expressed their approval of the cinematic adventure of Jaime Reyes .

This naturally raises the question: will Blue Beetle live to see a sequel? The movie's director, Angel Manuel Soto, puts the matter quite clearly. In order for there to be a "BB2", the first installment must earn for it. So it will all come down to box office performance.

"The way this machine works is that the first movie has to make them [the studio - ed. note] money to put out [for the sequel]. We [the filmmakers] always look at it this way: we love the story very much. We believe in our product extremely strongly. We also believe in our actors. We couldn't help but, on this journey, think about how far the making of this movie will take us," he said in an interview with Yahoo (via The Direct).

Some time ago, during an interview with Inverse, the director also made no secret of the fact that he is very hopeful that Blue Beetle 2 and Blue Beetle 3 will be made. On the occasion of another interview he announced that he would like the 2023 movie to be the first part of a saga.

We will certainly have to wait a while for information on whether DC Studios will green light a continuation of the adventures of the Latino hero. Although the premiere weekend in the box-office did not bring spectacular results, it was not tragic either. In its first three days the movie earned 25.4 million dollars, while it cost 43.4 million.

Pamela Jakiel

Pamela Jakiel

Finished film studies, graduate of the Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University. Her master's thesis was about new spirituality in contemporary cinema. The editor of the gamepressure.com since April 2023. She used to write for naEkranie. If she's not watching The Ninth Gate for the hundredth time, then she's reading books by Therese Bohman and Donna Tartt for the first time. She prefers gnosis over dread, dramas over horrors, Jung over Freud. She looks for symbolist paintings in museums. Runs long distances, and does even the longer ones on a gravel. Loves dachshunds.

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