the premiere of bad bunny as a Marvel character in The dead, Sony Pictures film about the Spider-Man universe, already has a director. will be the mexican Jonas Cuaron, as reported in the US media.
Billboard Y Variety announced the appointment of Jonás Cuarón by Sony Pictures this week.
Son of filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, it will also be Jonás’ debut in a superhero movie. He had already directed Año Uña, The Shock Doctrine, Aningaaq and Desierto.
Well, in this case, he’s not a superhero, but an antihero. The Dead, alter ego of Juan-Carlos Sánchez, is a fighter with powers passed from generation to generation, of Latin origin.
His first appearance in Marvel Comics occurred in 2006, in the comic Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #6, with Peter David, Roger Cruz, Oclair Albert and Victor Olazaba as its creators.
This is how the first Latino protagonist in a Marvel character movie arrives.
It was also known that the Mexican Gareth Dunnet-Alcócer writes the script for El Muerto. He previously worked on Blue Beetle, a DC Comics superhero whose film will be released in 2023.
The Spider-Man universe at Sony adds El Muerto, played by Bad Bunny
Sony seeks to fully exploit the Spider-Man universe, after having released the first two sagas of films about the arachnid hero, with Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield as protagonists.
They already presented Venom (Tom Hardy) and Morbius (Jared Leto), and the next ones would be Kraven the Hunter, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson (for 2023) and Madame Web, with Dakota Johnson (2025).
El Muerto will be on the screens from January 12, 2024, with Bad Bunny as the protagonist, a decision that surprised many.
The Puerto Rican reggaeton player, real name Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, He had already had experience in productions such as Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico, where he played the hit man Kitty Páez.