Sharon Stone Joins Blue Beetle As The DC Film's New Villain
As the DCEU movie Blue Beetle moves forward, the film is starting to add quite a few people to its cast. Among the new additions to Blue Beetle is Sharon Stone, who is reportedly going to be playing the one of the film's villains.
One of the most high-profile latino superheroes in the DCEU, Blue Beetle has seen a spate of casting over the last few weeks. That includes the addition of the Blue Beetle's love interest as well as a couple other characters. As the film heads down the tracks towards production and then eventual movie theaters, it seems as though the producers behind the film are wanting to get the last few open spots on the cast filled in short order.
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To that end, The Wrap is reporting that Stone is officially joining the cast and will be playing a character who is being created specifically for the movie. Stone is said to be playing the wife of Ted Kord, who is the second Blue Beetle in the comics. It appears that the character, Victoria Kord, will be squaring off against the movie's protagonist Jaime Reyes, who is donning the superhero suit for the film.
Furthermore, Raoul Max Trujillo has been cast as Carapax the Indestructible Man. Of course, with Stone signing on to play some sort of villain, it might mean that the Blue Beetle movie is going to be changing up Ted Kord's backstory. In the most recent DC Comics arc, Kord is an industrialist and the owner of KORD Industries, which is often implied to actually be a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises.
When Kord takes on the mantle of the Blue Beetle, he eventually joins the Justice League. Of course, it's also possible that while the movie isn't going to make Ted Kord a villain, he could be an unwitting pawn
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