“El Muerto”, a movie from the Spider-Man universe starring Bad Bunny, has found its director

Jonás Cuarón, son of Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón (“Roma”, “Y tu madre tú”), is already making his way into major Hollywood productions. Known for his thriller “Desert” and for co-writing “Gravity,” which earned him a BAFTA for Best British Film and a nomination for Best Picture, Cuarón has the new Sony Pictures project in his hands.

The new audiovisual adventure he will embark on is “El Muerto”, still in pre-production, with Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer behind the script. Its protagonist, whose name is the same as the title, is a antihero, son of a professional wrestler and about to inherit the ancestral power of “El Muerto”. It is framed Spider-Man universe, which led to the first Latin-led Marvel movie and in the first Latin male lead role in one of his live-action films, whereas the first was Ajak, a character played by Mexican actress Salma Hayek in ‘Eternals’ (2021). The protagonist He already has an assigned face, a well-known face in the music industry and one that is making its way to Hollywood: singer Bad Bunnyalso known as Benito A Martínez Ocasio.

A role for you

The Puerto Rican, who triumphs in the world of music and has achieved international recognition, is making a name for himself in the audiovisual world. After a cameo in which he played himself, he had a minor role in the series “Narcos: Mexico”, where he played Arturo “Kitty” Páez. This year, Bad Bunny made the leap into the world of cinema playing El Lobo in “Bullet Train”sharing the screen with actors of the stature of Brad Pitt, Aaron-Taylor Johnson and Michael Shannon, and demonstrating it his talent is not limited to music.

It was the same rapper who, in his search for a Latin character in the world of Spider-Man to fit him, he found El Muerto, according to the American media Deadline. Originally this character, also known as Juan Carlos, is a superpowered fighter who confronts Spiderman and almost manages to unmask him, before being stung by him with a paralyzing poison. When his enemy El Dorado comes to take him, Spider-Man and El Muerto team up to defeat him. The studio liked the idea and decided to schedule plans to make the project a reality.

Bad Bunny commented on it during the last Cinemacon he is amazed by the new project: “It’s great, I love wrestling, I grew up watching it and now I’m a wrestler”. He believes it too The role of El Muerto is “Perfect” for him: “I was a wrestling champion, that’s why I love this character, he’s going to be epic”.