El Muerto
Bad Bunny reacts to being cast as the new Sony ’s Spider - Man Universe characterEl Muertofor the of late announced solo movie . Created by Peter David and Roger Cruz , El Muerto was first enter in the funnies with 2006’sFriendly Neighborhood Spider - ManNo . 6 as avillain for Spider - Manwho is imbued with superhuman abilities thanks to his occult masquerade that has been passed down through generations in his family . El Muerto was forced to squirm Spider - Man in the hope of gruntle his family ’s oppressor El Dorado and nearly win in unmask the submarine sandwich , though is narrowly defeated by Spider - Man ’s stingers and run with the webslinger to defeat El Dorado when he comes to kill El Muerto in the hospital after .
El Muerto would mostly remain absent from the comics in the years since , but has drawn enough pursuit from Sony Pictures to make grow a film around the fictional character set within theirSony ’s Spider - Man Universe . The moving-picture show was announced at this year ’s CinemaCon panel when Bad Bunny made a surprise appearance on stage to reveal his casting and Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group President Sanford Panitch confirming that it is set for a January 2024 expiration . With development currently afoot onEl Muerto , the homo at the pith of it is reacting to conjoin the SSU .
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In a recent audience withApple Music , Bad Bunny opened up about being cast as the new Sony ’s Spider - Man Universe character El Muerto . The instrumentalist - turned - actor press out his excitation at link up the burgeoning risible Bible enfranchisement , feeling " majestic " to be the first " main Hispanic character " and bait an " epical " film to come . See what Bunny read below :
" Sometimes , I ca n’t think it yet , but it ’s the upshot of my work . The way I am , the way of life I work , I ’m so proud , very glad about this fictional character , this opportunity to be the first Latino . It ’s not about ' I ’m gon na be the first Latino making a role , ' it ’s gon na be about the first Hispanic independent grapheme , that ’s the important affair . So it ’s something huge , and it will be epic . I be intimate that the the great unwashed are gon na be proud about my piece of work . "
Bad Bunny ’s casting as El Muerto comes as the two - time Grammy winner has get down lucubrate his curriculum vitae to other fields , including joining the WWE in 2021 and pass water his acting entry withF9 : The Fast SagaandNarcos : Mexicoseason 3 the same year . He was reportedly cast off as the newfangled SSU character after impressing Sony executives with his performance in theBrad Pitt - led action thrillerBullet Train , with the studio being eager to rapidly put him on to another eminent - profile project and landing onEl Muerto . The film ’s annunciation was made alongside verification thatVenom 3was in development with Tom Hardy likely to render as the titulary antihero .
As he observe , Bad Bunny’sEl Muertofilm would mark the first Romance superhero in either of Marvel ’s major dealership to get their own undertaking , but does come at a time in which Marvel Studios is expanding their diversity with the Marvel Cinematic Universe . The recently releasedDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnessintroduced the LGBTQ+ character America Chavez to the fold whileHawkeyemarked the debut ofMaya Lopez / Echo , a deaf aboriginal American hero , making El Muerto ’s forthcoming picture show a promising dance step forth in Sony ’s own efforts . Only time will say what ’s to come from Bad Bunny ’s SSU debut as development continues onEl Muertoleading up to its January 12 , 2024 release .
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