Bad Bunny is heading into Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, and his upcoming superhero movie project has finally landed itself a director.
El Muerto, the first live-action Marvel movie to feature a leading Latino character, will see filmmaker Jonás Cuarón directing from a script by Gareth Dunnet Alcocer (Blue Beetle).
Cuarón made his directorial debut with the immigration thriller Desierto starring Gael García Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, which won the International Critics’ Award at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival. He’s also the son of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, co-writing the award-winning Gravity together.
El Muerto will follow a wrestler with superpowers passed down from generation to generation in a single family. Originally from the Spider-Man comics, the character is an antihero and the son of a luchador, or Mexican wrestler, and next in line to inherit the ancestral power of El Muerto.
Rapper-singer-pro wrestler Bad Bunny will headline the film, having landed the gig off his work in this year’s Brad Pitt-led action film Bullet Train [read our review here]. He’ll be the first Latino actor to lead a Marvel project and is rumored to be a key figure in the expanding Sony Marvel movie universe.
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The upcoming El Muerto is set in the Spider-Man universe alongside Morbius, Venom, and upcoming projects like Kraven The Hunter and Madame Web.
El Muerto is set to hit cinemas on January 12th, 2024.
