Oscar-nominated actress Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct, Ratched, The Disaster Artist) is headed to the DC universe as the villain in Blue Beetle. 

Also announced to be joining the cast is Raoul Max Trujillo (Sicario, Riddick, Apocalypto) as Carapax the Indestructible Man – a comics character who works as an archaeologist and whose mind melds with the body of a robot. In said comics however, Carapax is an enemy of the second Blue Beetle, aka Ted Kord, as opposed to the third Beetle (on which this film will centre). Stone will play Victoria Kord, a new character created for the film likely to be Ted Kord’s wife or widow.

Blue Beetle will star Cobra Kai‘s Xolo Maridueña, and hails from director Angel Manuel Soto and writer Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer. Maridueña will play Jaime Reyes, a teenager who gains superpowers when he encounters alien armour.

This actually marks Sharon Stone’s second venture in the DC-verse, after she starred opposite Halle Berry in that awkwardly terrible 2004 Catwoman film. The least we can hope for is that Blue Beetle will top that entry.

Warner Bros. has slated Blue Beetle to release in cinemas August 18th, 2023.