Blue Beetle to Return in Superman Sequel Man of Tomorrow

The Blue Beetle is making a comeback successful Man of Tomorrow, with Xolo Maridueña returning to reprise the quality aft his past quality successful the eponymous 2023 film.

Variety broke the quality connected July 14, confirming Maridueña’s instrumentality to the DC flick. Man of Tomorrow is presently successful production, directed by James Gunn, with a scheduled merchandise day of July 9, 2027.

While we’re inactive rather a ways retired from seeing the Blue Beetle interact with Kal-El and crew, this quality comes arsenic a spot of a surprise, considering however severely the archetypal Blue Beetle movie tanked astatine the worldwide container bureau — not to mention, it released close successful the mediate of the shaky modulation betwixt Snyder's and Gunn's respective DCUs.

Blue Beetle brought successful lone $130.8 cardinal against a $104 - $125 cardinal fund and garnered mixed reviews connected release. We scored the superhero flick 7/10, praising the movie for mounting itself isolated from the already “bloated” genre and lauding Maridueña’s show arsenic Jaime Reyes, portion admitting its 3rd enactment and “genre cliches” prevented it from progressing from bully to great.

Reyes isn’t the lone quality from the rebooted DC beingness making a comeback successful Man of Tomorrow: Milly Alcock’s Supergirl is besides confirmed to play a “big role” successful the movie, arsenic told by James Gunn successful June 2026.

“I've liked a batch of the iterations of Supergirl. Helen Slater was great, each of them truly person been large versions. But I bash deliberation that this Supergirl is isolated due to the fact that she's not truthful overmuch similar Superman,” Gunn explained, speaking astir the 2026 Supergirl film.

“She's very, precise antithetic from her cousin, which puts them astatine odds, which is simply a large portion of this movie [Supergirl]. And past an adjacent bigger portion of Man of Tomorrow, which we're filming now,” helium added.

More quality from DC is expected to beryllium revealed astatine San Diego Comic-Con 2026.

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