Sony is in the works on a movie about “El Muerto,” a Latino antihero, as part of its crop of Marvel characters, and they’ve tapped recording superstar Bad Bunny to play the luchador comics character.
Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group President Sanford Panitch announced the live-action “El Muerto” movie as part of the studio’s CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas on Monday, and he further announced that the new film will debut on January 12, 2024, exclusively in theaters.
“El Muerto” is the first Latino character to lead a Marvel film, and the antihero character is also known as Juan Carlos Estrada Sanchez, the son of a luchador who finds himself next in line to inherit the ancestral power of “El Muerto,” which is the powers and a mask worn by a super-powered wrestler.