The film will be the last. Sony’s superhero movie inspired by the Spider-Man comics, following two “Venom” movies starring Tom Hardy and Jared Leto’s recent “Morbius” vampire movie.
The Bad Rabbit has been a busy actor lately. He recently had a role in “Narcos” on Netflix and will be seen fighting Brad Pitt in David Leitch’s “Bullet Train” in July. “El Muerto” hits theaters on January 12, 2024.
Character The Dead Man first appeared in the 2006 comic “Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” No. 6 by Peter David and Roger Cruz, where he challenged Spider-Man to a wrestling match. The masked wrestler needed to win the match to satisfy a dark spirit that had haunted him and his father, but also given him superpowers. Longtime Spider-Man super-curmudgeon J. Jonah Jameson, the head honcho of the Daily Bugle, arranged the encounter.
In the comics, El Muerto’s masked look is based on wrestling and the character is Mexican. Whether that origin will be altered with the biggest Puerto Rican superstar of a generation playing him on the big screen is unknown, but Hollywood tends not to care about those details of ancestral authenticity when it comes to Latino characters on film. But there is There is no bigger Latin star in any medium than Bad Bunny, who has been Spotify’s most listened to artist in the world the last two years, while presenting exclusively in Spanish. If Santo Benito wants to play your Mexican superhero in a movie, you don’t say no, and playing a Mexican icon did wonders for another Puerto Rican actor and musician: J-Lo (see “Selena”). So maybe lightning strikes twice.
Bad Bunny’s appearance in a movie as a superhero and a fighter should not surprise his fans. The reggaeton player is a fan of both. at one of his concerts in Puerto Rico in December, during a Benicio Del Toro-narrated video tribute dedicated to Puerto Rican icons, an animated Miles Morales/Spider-Man from “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” briefly appeared among some of the biggest legends of the island . Morales is half Puerto Rican (through his mother) in the comics and in the movie. Bad Bunny has also He appeared in a tag team match at WWE’s biggest event, WrestleMania 37.
The chances of Spider-Man appearing in this movie, like he did in the first appearance in a comic of El Muerto, are few or none. The wall-crawler has yet to appear in any of Sony’s villain movies. Except for a small moment in the post-credits scene of “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” but with so many Spider-Men live after “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” never say never.
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