Following The Flash’s arrival later this week, there are two upcoming DC movies left to look forward to in 2023: Blue Beetle and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. While the latter movie is set to be the final installment in the DC Extended Universe, until today, it’s been unclear where exactly the former lies in the overall DC Films landscape. Well, thanks to James Gunn, we now know that Blue Beetle is more important to DC’s cinematic future than we thought.
Gunn stopped by Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum to talk about his career, and Rosenbaum is an especially fitting podcast host to do this with, as he’s not only worked with the filmmaker a few times, but he also has DC cred from playing Lex Luthor on Smallville and voicing The Flash in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. During their conversation, Gunn dropped this interesting tidbit about Blue Beetle:
