Comic book artist Cully Hamner did 'Blue Beetle' character reboot. His title 'RED' mini-series was previously made into hit Willis movie.
the “Blue Beetle” cast’s “vibrant,” “appealing” and “scene stealing” performances, the film not taking itself too seriously overall, and the “old-school rock ‘em sock ‘em” visual effects.
On a recent afternoon, Hamner checked in via Zoom video call from his current residence in Austin, Texas, a few days after returning from a screening of “Blue Beetle” on the DC Studios lot in the Los Angeles area. Edited excerpts below.My first impression was that they really got the relationships. Also, that it was a lot of fun -- it was a lot more fun than I actually thought it was gonna be – and the casting was great. And it was kind of gratifying that my costume works in three dimensions.
Look, everybody wants to be represented onscreen. It’s a power fantasy, and everybody wants to take part in that power fantasy, and it’s hard to do, I think, when cis-male-whiteness is the default you see onscreen. He said, “Hey, I really like your work and I want to keep you around,” which was a big thing to me, because I sort of felt like I was out of favor at DC. But you know, as happens, a new regime comes in and they decide they want to shake things up.
They’d had a couple of other artists do passes on it, and it seemed to me that they were directed towards doing sort of a Japanese robot, kind of a kaiju kind of look, which I thought, “That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.” You have to keep the humanity in the character -- not just in the way he’s written, but the way he looks. He’s got to look like a person.
Also, I looked at a lot of pictures of beetles, and the thing that struck me was the kind of pincer thing that you see. I wanted him to have that to give him that recognizable silhouette. And my idea was to make it sort of a backpack. If you look at my original designs, which you can find online, you’ll see that I’ve written on there “bug pack,” because that’s what my name for it when I was designing this thing.
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