Bad Bunny Lands Role as Marvel’s ‘El Muerto’

Bad Bunny will be the protagonist of Marvel’s El Muerto, Sony announced on Twitter. The new movie from the Marvel Universe of Super Heroes will be released in theaters in January 2024. 

The Puerto Rican star will be the first Latino to star in a Marvel action movie. He also made a brief appearance at CinemaCon, which is being held in Las Vegas, to announce this new adaptation of a superhero from the Marvel factory. “Bringing ‘El Muerto’ to life is simply incredible,” Sony Pictures president Sanford Panitch said at the film’s presentation.

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¿Quién es ‘El Muerto’?

Juan Carlos Estrada Sánchez is “The dead man” in Marvel comics, a masked fighter whose strength lies precisely in that mask, inherited by his family for generations, according to Marvel’s website.

LATINOS IN MARVEL

Although he is the first Latino to portray a Marvel character, the series “Caballero Luna” (“Moon Knight”), starring Guatemalan Oscar Isaac, can be seen on Disney +. 

There have also been other prominent Latino performers in Marvel movies, such as Salma Hayek, who played Ajak, the first leader of the “Eternals” (2021), and let’s not forget the Latino Spiderman in the animated film “Spider-Man: A New Universe” (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”, 2018).

Let’s continue to celebrate Latino’s making history! Bad Bunny Babyy!!