Blue Beetle: Sharon Stone To Play A Villain In The Upcoming DC Movie

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DC is trying to expand its roster of superhero movies and tv shows in the next two years as much as they can. Apart from the upcoming movies Black Adam, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Aquaman, and the Lost Kingdom, Batgirl, and The Flash, one of the movies that is still pretty far away, but it’s definitely on the way, is Blue Beetle.

The Blue Beetle movie was announced at the DC FanDome event in 2020, and Cobra Kai star Xolo Maridueña was cast to play the titular role. The movie will be directed by Angel Manuel Soto. The movie was originally set to be an exclusive for HBOMax, like Batgirl, but it was later revealed that the movie will be released in theaters, with the release date set for August 18, 2023.

Not much is known about the movie except that it’s in active development. Maridueña will play Jaime Reyes, a young man who will find a beetle alien which will give him special armor which will eventually turn him into a superhero. According to TheWrap, Oscar nominee and Golden Globe-winning actress Sharon Stone is now set to join the movie. According to the report, she will play Victoria Kord, the main villain of the movie. Victoria Kord is an original character created for the movie.

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Sharon Stone is best known for her role in 1992’s Basic Instinct in which she starred alongside Michael Douglas. She also starred in 1995’s Casino, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award. Blue Beetle won’t be her first DC project. She played a villainous role in the Catwoman movie starring Halle Berry. And we will watch her in the upcoming second season of HBOMax’s original series The Flight Attendant starring Kaley Cuoco.

Blue Beetle will be the first superhero movie ever with a Latino titular hero. The character was created in 1939, and DC Comics bought the rights for the character in 1983. DC Comics created Jaime Reyes, who became a third Blue Beetle. The upcoming movie will be the character’s first appearance on the big screen.

Blue Beetle is set to open in theaters on August 18, 2023.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.