From Geoff Johns Twitter account....

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"DC ENTERTAINMENT IS DEVELOPING A LIVE ACTION BLUE BEETLE TV SHOW! :)"

BLUE BEETLE NEWS from DCE!! We have a live-action test of Jaime Reyes' scarab activating his suit. It. Is. Awesome

If I can break it out of the vault, I'll bring it to SDCC. LIVE ACTION BLUE BEETLE!!

Blue Beetle's going to appear in most of the Brave and the Bold's this year and we're hoping to develop a live-action show. Fingers crossed!

When asked for a comment, Jaime Reyes of El Paso, Texas declared himself



Hopefully they don't screw this one up... KEEP his family and friends as his support network that's for damned sure. Not grimdark, but not a pure sitcom. etc etc

char: blue beetle/jaime reyes, creator: keith giffen, creator: john rogers, creator: cully hamner, title: blue beetle

Comments

[theanswer]

I'm thinking they're shopping around for a series to replace Smallville soon. Blue Beetle would be awesome!

[theanswer]

Also, this was my physical reaction.

[pizoxuat]

I hope we get Jamie-from-his-own-series Jamie and not Teen Titans Jamie.

[icon_uk]

Painful spasming is your reaction to something you think would be a GOOD idea?

[theanswer]

Yes... "painful." <_<; That's the ticket...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cloud_wolf]

What. The. Fuck.

*flail*

Dude, if this works, do you think he'll get his own solo back? *crosses fingers*

[majingojira]

Let's hope this works out for the best!

Because...the alternatives are basically heinous to imagine.

Re: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stubbleupdate]

Oh, naivete.

[lyraeinne]

Ooh, this could either be really horrendous or incredibly amazing. At the very least, it gives me hope that we may yet see final rest for the lurching, decomposing, undead corpse of Smallville.

[intertobamf]

¿Por qué no? Ahora ustedes son una tontería!

Re: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[schala_kid]

How is that naive?

Re: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stubbleupdate]

It's a belief that having a large TV presence will lead to a renewed TV series.

This has been shown not to be the case when a) the Blue Beetle series was cancelled in the week that Blue Beetle made his debut on Brave and the Bold and b) Warner Bros different media groups fight over the properties. Hopefully the DC reshuffle will make it easier for greater joined up thinking between the media arms, but that remains to be seen.

[espanolbot]

And the countdown to Jaime being renamed Jamie and being played by a 26 year old WASP with the show being relocated to the Midwest/Canada begins!

As has been said elsewhere

[stubbleupdate]

Let's hope we get Jaime and not Jamie

[darklorelei]

My tendency towards extreme pessimism puts this in the DO NOT WANT category for me...

[greenmask]

That could be fucking AMAZING.

Take your cues from Japan, Blue Beetle TV team! Make it better than any Kamen Rider has ever been!

[endis_ni]

It will be awesome. The kid playing Milagro will not need a clip round the ear, and Paco will have his stick. There will be a loving supportive family that will never be killed off for cheap drama, and Khaji-Da will be cute and burbly, but not a mechanical-owl-animated-by-Harryhausen sort of way.

Did I leave my Blue Lantern Ring in the front room again?

[okkult3000]

I thought Jaime was from El Paso, Texas.

[icon_uk]

Yeah, more Kamen Rider, less...Masked Rider

[greenmask]

SERIOUSLY.

D:

[icon_uk]

Thanks for the catch! Now corrected

[cmdr_zoom]

So... the Guyver, then.

[icon_uk]

Isn't that pretty much what Jaime's Blue Beetle always has been?

[cmdr_zoom]

Yeah, but slightly more obvious when it's live action (to me, anyway).

[wizardru]

I want to be excited...but then reality sets in and I assume the worst.

How much will be sacrificed to shoehorn this onto TV? How much will focus groups change Jaime to white...or worse, to be scripted white? How much will they change things to shoehorn BB into a weekly show, dropping all that makes Jaime unique or interesting.

My first expectation is that they'll eject everything that makes the character appealing to make him more generic and marketable. I hope I'm wrong. I would LOVE to be wrong. But pessimism seems more the likely reaction.