The Bad Bunny Spider-Man Movie Is Even Weirder Than It Sounds
thegamer.comLast night during Sony’s panel at the national convention for theater owners, AKA CinemaCon, the studio announced it will soon be expanding the non-MCU Spider-Man universe with a film based on the anti-hero El Muerto, starring rapper, actor, and professional wrestler Bad Bunny. If you haven’t heard of El Muerto, don’t worry, you’re not alone. If you have heard of El Muerto and you’re a big fan, no you haven’t, no you aren’t, stop lying.
El Muerto isn’t some niche character buried in the annals of Spider-Man history. He isn’t a C-lister Sony wants to bring up to the big leagues a la Shang-Chi or The Eternals. In fact, El Muerto isn’t even a D- through F-lister. Juan-Carlos Estrada Sánchez is a one-off character that appeared in a two-issue arc from a short-lived Spider-Man spin-off called Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man that ran from 2005-07. No one knows who El Muerto is, and that includes Sony, Marvel, and probably Peter David, the writer who created the character. There isn’t a single El Muerto fan on the planet, at least not yet anyway.
Deadline offers an explanation for the bizarre decision to adapt El Muerto’s one and only appearance for the big screen. Bad Bunny is starring alongside Brad Pitt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Sony’s upcoming action-comedy Bullet Train, a big summer tent-pole movie that Sony is evidently “very high on”. Its enthusiasm for Bullet Train has already led to Aaron Taylor-Johnson scoring his own Spider-Man movie as Kraven the Hunter, and now we know Bad Bunny was tapped for the same opportunity.
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As for El Muerto, it sounds like Bad Bunny chose the character himself. The Puerto Rican artist went looking for Latin
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