Sony Pictures is not giving up bringing its luchador superhero to the big screen, with El Muerto still in active development.
In a new piece looking at Madame Web and Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, Variety notes that the studio has quietly resumed the development process with the studio in the hunt for a new lead.
Bad Bunny was previously set for the role, but delays from the SAG-AFTRA strike as well as Bad Bunny’s touring and recording schedule. The rapper/singer was a massive pick for the studio, given his popularity and his experience working with WWE as a professional wrestler.
El Muerto follows 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.
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At the last time of report, Jonás Cuarón, the son of Alfonso Cuarón, is attached to the project as director, while Gareth Dunnet Alcocer (Blue Beetle) had penned the script.
