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Blue Beetle star Xolo Maridueña offered a spry update on the DC Studios animated series , noting that the studio apartment is eyeing a 2026 premiere .
With everything go on in and around DC Studios Co - CEOsJames GunnandPeter Safran ’s New DCU , we nearly forgot that Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios were in ontogenesis on an animated series that would bringXolo Maridueña ’s Jamie Reyes / Blue Beetle and others from the 2023 feature film into the New DCU.Miguel Puga(The Casagrandes ) was tapped as showrunner and film director , andCristian Martinez(Good Trouble ) set as the writer . Speaking withThe Directon Sunday night during the Saturn Awards , Maridueña offered a ready update on how thing are look – and when he expect the animated series to finally reach covert . " I ’m quick to come back . We ’re hitting hard this animated project , hoping to get this settle out this year to show everyone next year , " the Saturn Award winner ( Best Young Performer in a Television Series , Cobra Kai ) shared – meaning production is range along this year for a 2025 debut .
Blue Beetle: Xolo Maridueña on Animated Series, Jamie Reyes/Anime
Checking in with hisLone Lobospodcast Centennial State - innkeeper ( andCobra Kaico - star)Jacob Bertrandback in June 2024 , Maridueña partake some other thoughts about the serial publication – and what he had to portion out should bring a smiling to anime fan . " Wowza , Blue Beetle is back ! I ’m so mad ! To get to do the … I think there is an chance on each program to really make something beam , right ? In the pic , you had the chance to do the movie stuff . In a TV show , you have the luck to do farseeing - formatting stuff , " Maridueña shared about the move from live - action movie to animated series . What ’s interesting about the news is that it still is n’t clean if the series will be a lenient , New DCU - friendly " reboot " or a lengthiness from the film – though we ’re leaning pretty hard on it being the former .
Also , the originative possibility that an animated serial publication lends are n’t lost on Maridueña , who sees a greater opportunity for Jamie to grind deeply into his love life for gum anime when it ’s struggle clock time . " In an animated show … the f***ing fact this nipper like anime and can make whatever freaking weapon he wants and has this courting that lights up … if they do the suit right in animated , I question if it ’s go to look precisely like the pic case did or if it ’s going to , depend on what the artistry style , if it ’s kick the bucket to look a little bit different [ or the same ] for branding and all that . "
Joining Maridueña in the original feature film wereGeorge Lopez , Adrianna Barraza , Damián Alcázar , Elpidia Carrillo , Harvey Guillén , Raoul Trujillo , andBecky Gas the vocalization Khaji - Da ( the part behind Jaime ’s Blue Beetle case ) . In term of molding , DH reports that " multiple " shape members have been reach about the task and that DC Studios has been getting " positive " responses in terms of who could be returning . In addition , it ’s being reported that the series will " build " on the feature article photographic film but " divert from tell apart the same story " and craft its own narrative – which would be a great way to have the feature moving picture cast have a home in the New DCU : bring them aboard in an animated series , pick off what require to be tweaked to fit the New DCU , and then have them back in the live - action domain – feature film , streaming serial , or both . Angel Manuel Soto , Gareth Dunnet - Alcocer , andJohn Ricardare reportedly set as executive producer , andGalen Vaismanwill oversee the invigorate series for DC Studios .
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