Rapper/singer Bad Bunny is set to star in an El Muerto spinoff film from the Spiderman universe, making him Marvel’s first Latino live-action main character. “To bring El Muerto to life is just incredible... so exciting,” the artist said of the role in an announcement at CinemaCon this week. The film, produced by Sony Pictures, is set to release in January 2024.
In the El Muerto comics, a wrestler named Juan-Carlos Estrada Sanchez gets his powers from his lucha libre mask, which he has to earn by fighting a character named El Dorado. When Sanchez is unable to defeat El Dorado, his father sacrifices himself to save his son. The film will likely pick up on this anti-hero narrative of Sanchez avenging his father’s death and becoming El Muerto in the ultimate battle ten years later against El Dorado. The comics also see El Muerto wrestling Spider-Man, even nearly unmasking the web-slinger before Spider-Man paralyzed him with poison.
