The director has been chosen for Sony’s Bad Bunny-starring Marvel Comics movie, El Muerto.
As reported by The Wrap, set to direct El Muerto is Jonás Cuarón. Cuarón previously directed 2015 thriller Desierto and also co-wrote space survival film Gravity alongside his father, who you may know – Oscar-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón.
The screenplay is coming from Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, who’s also behind the script for upcoming DC Comics Latino hero film, Blue Beetle.
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Rapper and singer Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, will have his first big lead role in the comic book movie, playing a Marvel antihero that’s in the Spider-Man universe. Also known as Juan Carlos Estrada Sánchez, the character is the son of a luchador and is in line to inherit the powers of El Muerto, a superhuman wrestler.
The character doesn’t really have a massive footprint in the comics. On the page, he attended a charity event organised by J. Jonah Jameson, who was hoping that El Muerto would defeat Spider-Man in the ring and unmask him.
Sony Pictures has lined up El Muerto for a U.S. theatrical release on January 12, 2024.
