Jonás Cuarón is set to direct Sony Pictures’ El Muerto, which will star Grammy-winning artist Bad Bunny, also known as Benito A Martínez Ocasio.
Cuaron, the son of filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron, made his directorial debut with the immigration thriller Desierto. Gareth Dunnet Alcocer (Blue Beetle) is writing the script for El Muerto, about a wrestler with superpowers passed down from generation to generation in a single family.
The pic is in early development and will mark the first Latino character to lead a live-action Marvel film. El Muerto, a character originally from the Spider-Man universe, is an antihero and the son of a luchador, or Latino wrestler, and next in line to inherit the ancestral power of El Muerto.
Sony Pictures will theatrically release the pic on Jan. 12, 2024. Cuaron co-wrote and directed Desierto, which starred Gael Garcia Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The movie won the International Critics’ Award at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival.
He also co-wrote Gravity with his father. As Bad Bunny gets set to become a Marvel star, the expanding Sony Pictures universe of Marvel characters includes JC Chandor’s Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor Johnson, to be released in theaters on Oct. 6, 2023.
The studio also has in the works SJ Clarkson’s Madame Web, starring Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney, set for a Feb. 16, 2024 release.
Cuarón is repped by UTA. Alcocer is repped by WME.
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