Jennifer Keene Interview - DC Showcase: Blue Beetle
The world of DC Comics is going retro with the DC Showcase short Blue Beetle. Set up as a '60s-era cartoon, the animated short centers on the Ted Kord incarnation of the iconic hero as he teams up with The Question to foil Dr. Spectro's plan to corrupt the feelings of those around the world.
Along with Blue Beetle, the new DC Showcase collection incorporates two other shorts that previously came packaged with DC Animated films - Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth! and The Losers - and a brand-new short film called Constantine — The House of Mystery.
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Ahead of the collection's release, Screen Rant spoke with writer Jennifer Keene to discuss DC Showcase: Blue Beetle, researching the various characters included, capturing the vintage tone of its classic set up and more.
Screen Rant: Of the handful of shorts in the showcase, Blue Beetle might be my favorite. I know you've worked with the studio before, but what about this really caught your interest to be a part of it?
Jennifer Keene: Well, I'll tell you what I loved about it. I didn't know anything about it. Jeremy, who wrote the outline, is a huge Blue Beetle fan and Jim Krieg is a longtime comic book person. I've worked with Jim, specifically, as a comedy writer when he hired me for the Green Lantern, it was to do comedy. I've done punch up for features for him, so when he called me about this, he was like, «Yeah, we're doing a short, it's about Blue Beetle.» I was like, «Who's the Blue Beetle? I'm in!»
I got to do a lot of research, find out who he was and just discover all of these other characters that I really didn't know anything about either, like The Question and Nightshade and Captain Atom. It's just always really fun
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