Puerto Rican Ángel Soto will direct the new film “Transformers”

Puerto Rican Angel Manuel Soto, which was announced in February to direct “Blue Beetle”, the first Warner Bros. and DC Comics film starring a Latin superhero, will also direct the next “Transformed” film.

As it was published on Saturday on the web by several pages specialized in cinematography, the project is in its incipient phase and Marco Ramirez, co-creator of the television series “The Defenders”, will be the “showrunner” (head of a series) of the new film Paramount.

Ramirez will also create something independent, which will not necessarily connect to the films “Transformers”, directed by Michael Bay.

Bay directed “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” (2011), “Transformers: Age of Extinction” (2014) and “Transformers: The Last Knight” (2017), while “Transformers: Bumblebee” (2018), directed a Travis Knight.

The announcement of the new movie “Transformers” comes a year after Paramount announced that it was developing two movies related to the animated television series.

The first would have been written by James Vanderbilt and the other for Joby Harold.

Soto took his career after the “Charm City Kings” project, an adaptation of the documentary “12 O’Clock Boys”, which was presented on the HBO Max platform and won a special jury award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

Following this project, at the end of February last year, it was announced that Soto would direct “Blue Beetle”.

This feature film will focus on the Hispanic Jaime Reyes, one of the 3 identities he had in the comics Blue Beetle, a superhero with extraordinary powers derived from a beetle.

This new film will be the first with a Hispanic protagonist of those who make up the cinematic universe that Warner Bros. articulates it on DC Comics stories.

However, “Suicide Squad” (2016) had a secondary character of Latin origin called El Diablo, who was played by the actor Jay Hernandez.

The executive producer of “Blue Bettle”, which opens in cinemas this fall, is Zev Foreman by Warner Bros.

Blue Beetle was created by Charles Wojtkowski for Fox Comics in 1939 as the “alter ego” of Dan Garrett, a cop who uses experimental vitamins to develop superpowers.

Some of Soto’s first films were “El Púgil” and “La Granja”, the latter being screened at the 5th Aruba International Film Festival in 2015.