Sony Pictures just beat Marvel Studios in casting a Latino lead in a Marvel movie for the first time.
According to Sony's CinemaCon panel, Bad Bunny will star as El Muerto, an underrated Spider-Man villain who is also a wrestler. The rapper/actor was at the announcement and shared that the opportunity is "amazing" and "incredible".
Sony is starting to build its Sony's Spider-Man Universe outside of just Venom. The critically-panned Jared Leto-led film, Morbius, might not have pulled in as much as Tom Hardy's pair of Venom outings, but the oft-delayed film was a solid attempt. With Aaron Taylor-Johnson's Kraven the Hunter and Dakota Johnson's Madame Web coming out in 2023, Sony is giving audiences something to tide them over until El Muerto and Venom 3 comes out.
El Muerto isn't the most recognizable Spider-Man villain. The masked wrestler hasn't appeared in a live-action film before and isn't a particularly popular choice in Spider-Man video games as well.