Today, The Wrap announced that Acadamy and Emmy nominee actress Sharon Stone had entered early talks to join DC Comics Blue Beetle. The report states she will play an original character named Victoria Kord. As the name suggests, Ted Kord, the original Blue Beetle, may have a role in the film as well.
His character gets his powers from the suit built by Kord Industries compared to Jamie Reyes’s alien scarab on his body. Raoul Max Trujillo will also join the cast as Carapax the Indestructible Man. Xolo Maridueña will star as Jamie Reye’s by director Angel Manuel Soto. Production begins later this tear.
Blue Beetle hits theaters next year