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Five Seconds Of Blue Beetle Live Action Test Footage

Sorry guys, some video from the Blue Beetle live action test footage was part of an SFX showreel for rommel S Calderon went live on YouTube for a few minutes along with Alvin & The Chipmunks and Ben 10, until it was suddenly pulled down seconds ago, before I had time to download it.

UPDATE: It's back up. Fifty seconds in. After chipmunks. Ooh look, there's some Wonder Woman as well.

The footage, showing the back scarab scene and the standing scene was all of five seconds long, but it was enough to cause a furore, clearly.

Of course, some of you who saw the images and the footage did see a certain simularity between this;

Five Seconds Of Blue Beetle Live Action Test Footage

And this.

Five Seconds Of Blue Beetle Live Action Test Footage

The latter is a scene from the Yowser Yowser Yowser video for Gyratory System directed by comic book writer Alex De Campi that was popularised on the sci-fi and tech sites a couple of months ago, and made on a budget of $500. Something tells me the Blue Beetle footage may have cost a little more.

And yes, this is mostly an excuse to run this video again…

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The latter is a scene from the Yowser Yowser Yowser video for Gyratory System directed by comic book writer Alex De Campi that was popularised on the tech sites a couple of months ago, and made on a budget of $500. Something tells me the Blue Beetle footage may have cost a little more.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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