Sony Pictures has set Jonás Cuarón as the director for El Muerto, which will star Bad Bunny, also known as Benito A Martínez Ocasio, Deadline has learned.
Cuarón, the son of Academy Award-winner Alfonso Cuarón, is known for the 2015 thriller film Desierto. The film is still in early development and Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer is writing the script.
El Muerto is a character within Spider-Man’s universe and the film would mark the first time a Latino character would lead a Marvel live-action film.
El Muerto is an antihero and the son of a luchador next in line to inherit the ancestral power of “El Muerto.” “It’s amazing, it’s incredible.
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