Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for Blue Beetle
If you stuck around to the mid-credits scene ofBlue Beetle, you made one important discovery: Jenny’s (Bruna Marquezine) fatherTed Kordis still alive, and somehow he managed to get this information through his friend Booster Gold to the old Scarab headquarters – a place that might have been previously inhabited by none other than theMartian Manhunter. In an interview with Collider’s Editor-in-ChiefSteve Weintraub, directorÁngel Manuel Sototalked about that scene and what it implies.
During the interview, Soto talked to Collider about the fact that, even thoughBlue Beetleis an origin story, the movie makes it clear that the origins of the super-powerful Scarab are farther back in time, and Jenny’s father Ted Kord is a huge part of it, as well as DC hero Booster Gold:
“We want to set up a potential team-up where we can continue with the lore of Ted Kord or Booster Gold or one of those guys coming in to have a story. But the things that we were definitely debating were like, ‘Is he gonna show up physically? Is Booster Gold gonna show up physically?’ So, given the regime changes that we’ve had in the making of this movie, and probably the unwillingness to commit to something because maybe it doesn’t fit into somebody’s universe, this was the compromise that we arrived at. He is out there, he was able to cut into the computer and deliver that message, and I think at the end of the day, it worked out. It’s pretty open to the fact that we could eventually have a Booster Gold thing happening.”
Booster Is Gold, But a Careful Approach Is Golden
Soto’s careful approach to setting up future connections makes perfect sense when you take a simple look at the state that DC Studios is in right now. In blatant transition, it’s still not clear to the public (andapparently not even to actors) what will change and what will stay the same in the new superhero universecreated byJames GunnandPeter Safran. Fans keep hoping that each new DC superhero movie will give a hint of how this new DC era will look like, but given that all that has been released had already been filmed prior to Gunn and Safran taking over, it makes sense that the latest movies wouldn’t give any indication about the future.
At the same time, there’s a good chance thatBlue Beetleis probably on the new-era side of the story, especially when you consider that aBooster GoldTV seriesis currently in development at DC. So we might see Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña) again sooner rather than later.
Blue Beetleis playing in theaters now. Don’t miss our full conversation with Ángel Manuel Soto below.
